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Alteryx
Alteryx made its name by rescuing analysts from copy-paste work. Now the privately owned software veteran is betting that the same visual workflows can make enterprise AI useful, governed and repeatable.
Botrista, Inc.
Botrista is a San Francisco-based food-and-beverage technology company that builds an AI-driven automated beverage platform. Its flagship BotristaPro machine lets restaurants, campuses, hospitals, theme parks and other venues serve a wide range of craft cold drinks - boba teas, smoothies, refreshers, cold brew, lemonades and more - from a single compact, self-cleaning unit in seconds, without specialized baristas. Founded in 2017 by former Tesla automation engineer Sean Hsu, the company pairs patented multi-ingredient dispensing hardware with cloud-based analytics and demand forecasting, and has raised roughly $126 million to date, including a Series C led by Jollibee Foods Corporation.
Bristlecone
Bristlecone is the industry's largest pure-play supply chain services provider and a Mahindra Group company. Founded in 1998 in San Jose, California, it helps Global 2000 organizations plan, source, and fulfill through AI-first supply chain transformation - blending consulting, system integration, and its own cloud platform, Bristlecone NEO. Roughly 2,500-2,700 consultants across a dozen global hubs have delivered over 1,000 engagements for more than 300 customers in life sciences, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, and high-tech.
Hex
Hex is a San Francisco-based AI analytics platform founded in 2020 by former Palantir employees Barry McCardel, Caitlin Colgrove, and Glen Takahashi. The company builds an integrated workspace where data teams and business users can analyze data, build interactive apps, and share insights using SQL, Python, and natural language — all in one place. With $177M in total funding including a $70M Series C in May 2025, Hex serves over 1,500 organizations including Reddit, Figma, Anthropic, Brex, and the NBA, replacing fragmented tool stacks with a single governed platform powered by AI agents.
Incorta
Incorta is an enterprise data and analytics platform built around its proprietary Direct Data Mapping technology, which eliminates the traditional ETL pipeline by connecting analytics directly to raw source-system data. Founded in 2013 by Oracle veterans in Foster City, California, Incorta enables Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks, Broadcom, and Comcast to query 100% of their operational data in real time - without the 18-24 month transformation projects that conventional data warehousing demands. Its Operational Lakehouse architecture supports 240+ pre-built connectors to ERP systems including SAP, Oracle, Workday, and Salesforce, and has expanded into Operational GenAI with built-in RAG and LLM integrations.
Kyligence
Kyligence is the company behind Apache Kylin, the open-source OLAP engine for big data. Founded in 2016 by the project's original creators, it now sells an AI-powered metrics platform and a copilot that lets non-technical employees chat with their business numbers instead of writing SQL.
Calyx
Calyx (formerly BioInspira) is a Berkeley-based agtech company that combines AI-powered computer vision with proprietary phage-based biosensors to help poultry farmers monitor flock weight, environmental conditions, and gas levels in real time. Founded in 2014 by UC Berkeley bioengineering alumni, the company's platform integrates overhead cameras, multi-gas sensors, and cloud analytics to give broiler producers continuous, data-driven visibility into flock health and harvest timing — with 98.4% accuracy in predicting chicken weight across more than 17 million validated birds.