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David Barboza and the secret life of a public record
He spent more than a year following corporate records to the family fortune of China’s premier. Then David Barboza began building WireScreen so the next investigation could start further along.
Naveen Miglani and the art of making things connect
A diplomat’s son became a software founder with a persistent interest in crossing boundaries. At SplashBI, Naveen Miglani is carrying that interest from business reporting into enterprise AI.
Karel Callens and the distance to an answer
In 2019, Karel Callens taught Alexa to answer a revenue question. The Luzmo co-founder has spent years working on the harder part: getting useful, trustworthy answers to people wherever they work.
Dror Har’s next idea already has a team
Before founding Globaldev Group, Dror Har had already grown an analytics business and joined a larger group himself. His next chapter brought engineering teams together across borders - and made the people behind the software the recurring subject.
Moritz Thoma and the sale nobody could see
First he helped homeowners find an estate agent; then he went looking for the purchases hidden behind the internet’s shop windows. Moritz Thoma’s career turns on a deceptively simple question: what actually sold?
Arun Srinivasan and the spreadsheet that wouldn't leave
He bought ads when Facebook was still finding its business model. At Clarisights, Arun Srinivasan is working on a stubborn consequence of digital marketing's success: getting the people spending the money closer to their data.
Justin Alanis and the Trouble With a Closed Door
He built Rentlytics to get property investors closer to their own information. At StoryCo, Justin Alanis and his brother are asking who gets to help create a story - and share in what it becomes.
The sale ends. The parts business doesn’t.
NITS Solutions turns dealership data into a plan for the next repair, the next parts order, and the customer who quietly stopped calling.
Triple Whale wants the dashboard to do the work
The ecommerce company began with a spreadsheet problem. Now its bet is that the same system that measures your marketing should help run it.
Affine wants AI to finish the job
The analytics firm’s big idea predates the chatbot boom: solve a business problem once, keep the useful parts, and put them to work again.
Infosense puts the bank in your hands.
A bank can hold millions of records and still leave its managers waiting for a report. Infosense, IronOne’s banking analytics business, puts deposits, loans and risk on screens built for the people making the decisions.
PanApps makes knowledge work.
A grant, a harvest, a policy report: each is a test of whether information reaches the person who needs it. PanApps builds the software for that handoff.
Saugata Saha and the distance between data and a decision
He once wanted to fly airplanes. After a career spanning sales, consulting, finance and enterprise data, Qlik’s new CEO is working on a different navigation problem: helping businesses turn information into action.
Ajel makes the old systems talk
The hard part of business software is getting yesterday’s systems to work with tomorrow’s plans. Ajel has built its offer around that awkward conversation.
Intellicus makes the numbers travel
The most useful report is the one that reaches the person who can act on it. Intellicus has built a business getting analytics into the software, departments and daily routines where decisions happen.
Sigma Infosolutions makes the pieces fit.
A checkout, a credit check, a stubborn old storefront. Sigma Infosolutions builds the connections that let businesses move without starting over.
Michael Vadini and the price of keeping faith
At TITAN, Michael Vadini gave investors more shares and reduced his own stake. Through SignUpGenius, the family business behind Glew, and Infocenter’s sale to Insight, his career keeps returning to the people behind the systems.
Priyanka Rungta and the business of being understood
She helped Kolkata speak through hand shadows. From Navsoft’s early web applications to BoostMySale and NavAI, Priyanka Rungta has spent her career giving people a way into unfamiliar technology.
Ravikiran Dharmavaram and the trouble with a good idea
A career in analytics taught the Exafluence founder that useful technology has to survive contact with everyday work. His answer runs from old banking systems to a classroom at his former university.
Christian Chabot’s slow road to a faster answer
A former data analyst saw what a Stanford research project could change. Then Christian Chabot spent a decade turning Tableau into a public company, one customer and one question at a time.
Arun Gollapudi and the question before the answer
Before Systech, Arun Gollapudi wrestled with the cost and complexity of reporting at Nestlé. Three decades of databases, cloud platforms and AI later, his career keeps returning to a practical question: what can a business actually do with its data?
Akshay Jain and the Long Road from Data to a Decision
The UsefulBI co-founder has built a career around the distance between having information and knowing what to do with it. His company’s expansion offers a practical view of how an analytics business grows up alongside AI.
Tim Harsch and the things a company cannot tell you
A Dartmouth engineer helped build Owler around the knowledge people carry to work. His career asks a deceptively simple question: how do you persuade a crowd to make business less mysterious?
Jim Fowler keeps putting his faith in other people
He helped turn shared business cards into Jigsaw and company gossip into Owler. Now Jim Fowler is asking the crowd to answer a more basic question: is there a real person on the other end?
Sunny Pokala and the business of being heard
He built Amtex around the needs of Wall Street. A restaurant venture and a voice-based social app reveal how often Sunny Pokala has taken a familiar frustration and tried to make a business out of it.
KARYA makes the systems talk.
A hotel can fill its rooms and still lose money between its software systems. KARYA connects those systems - and is building an AI product to make their data easier to question.
Otelier wants the hotel back.
The guest sees a welcome. Behind it sits a mountain of reports, spreadsheets and reconciliations. Otelier is trying to give the people running hotels their time back.
SlideSense and the end of copy-paste reporting
The same slides. Different numbers. Again. SlideSense, a Gramener product, turns that familiar office ritual into a repeatable PowerPoint workflow.
UsefulBI and the art of making data useful
A pharmaceutical batch, a stalled dashboard, a clinical document: UsefulBI works where information gets stuck. Its business is making the next decision easier to reach.
Symphony Health and the missing prescription
A prescription tells you what was ordered. Symphony Health connects the records around it to show what happened next - and why that matters to the companies making medicines.