How a spin-off from an Indian computer-training business became a 32,000-person, AI-first services firm - and pulled off the biggest technology-services IPO in over a decade.
Kyndryl inherited the systems big companies cannot switch off. Now the IBM spin-off is trying to turn that unglamorous responsibility into a modern consulting, cloud and AI business.
Tyler Technologies built a $2.3 billion business in the least glamorous corner of software: the machinery of government. Its advantage is not a single killer app, but a web of systems that makes switching difficult and public work increasingly connected.
Avahi has built a business around the least glamorous part of the AI boom: making pilots survive contact with production. Its bet is that AWS fluency, fixed-scope experiments and a growing managed-services practice can turn corporate curiosity into systems that actually work.
The Seattle-area technology company pairs consulting muscle with a shelf of homegrown products - betting that enterprise transformation works better when the people drawing the blueprint can also build the machinery.
Astute Business Solutions has built a business around an unfashionable but valuable idea: the old ERP may not need replacing. Its next act is to make those deeply embedded systems useful in the AI era.
The former Oracle engineers behind ASIR Technologies built a consulting business around the systems enterprises cannot easily replace. Now their no-code ACRA platform is trying to make those systems far less painful to test, connect and operate.

apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Ardoq is a Norwegian enterprise architecture software company that helps large organizations map, understand, and transform their technology and business landscapes. Its cloud-based, graph-powered platform turns tangled application portfolios, data flows, and business capabilities into living, queryable models so leaders can plan cloud migrations, rationalize applications, manage risk, and steer digital transformation with current data rather than static diagrams. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Oslo, Ardoq serves more than 400 enterprises worldwide and has pushed toward an AI-first approach that reasons over the architecture graph.
Synthesized is a London- and New York-based enterprise software company that automates the creation of production-realistic test data. Its AI-driven platform generates, masks, and subsets data from sensitive systems so teams can validate software, database migrations, and AI agents before they reach production - all while preserving privacy and meeting regulations such as GDPR. Founded in 2020 by Cambridge machine-learning PhD Nicolai Baldin, the company counts Deutsche Bank and UBS among its customers and raised a $20M Series A in September 2025.
Justin Folkers is the co-founder and CEO of apiphani, a Boston-based technology-enabled managed services company that runs mission-critical enterprise applications such as SAP using a blend of expert engineers and AI-driven automation. He started the company around 2020 after more than two decades supporting enterprise clients at firms including Virtustream and Capgemini, betting that AI-powered automation would let people focus on meaningful work instead of routine operational tasks. In 2025 apiphani raised a $25 million round led by Insight Partners to expand Luumen, its AI-driven observability and automation platform.
Cleartelligence is a Newton, Massachusetts-based data and AI consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise organizations turn complex, siloed data into clear, usable intelligence. Founded in 2011, it delivers analytics and visualization, data engineering and architecture, artificial intelligence, and data strategy advisory across finance, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, technology, and the public sector. Backed by private equity firm Align Capital Partners since 2022, the firm has grown through acquisitions of Winter Sun and Bardess Group and opened a delivery center in Hyderabad, India, in 2025.
CLOUDSUFI is a Silicon Valley data-driven digital transformation company that helps enterprises turn raw, siloed information into decisions - a mission it captures in the phrase 'we make enterprise data dance.' Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the firm pairs data engineering, advanced analytics, and generative AI with a Google Cloud Premier partnership to modernize data platforms, automate supply chains, and unlock data monetization for customers across manufacturing, retail, financial services, energy, and digital-native industries.
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley (legally CCT Technologies Inc.) is a San Jose-based technology solutions provider and value-added reseller founded in 1991. Over three decades it grew from a storefront computer sales-and-service shop into a full-service IT partner delivering cloud, cybersecurity, managed services, network infrastructure, virtualization, unified communications and IT logistics to government agencies, K-12 and higher-education institutions, and commercial businesses across California and beyond. A longtime approved E-Rate and NASPO ValuePoint reseller and Microsoft authorized education reseller, the company was acquired by cloud and cybersecurity firm ISSQUARED Inc. on May 1, 2024.
Cyntexa is an IT consulting firm founded in 2018 that helps enterprises run and extend platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, Google Cloud and Nintex. A Salesforce Summit (top-tier) Consulting Partner, it offers implementation, integration, custom app development, managed services, Agentforce/agentic-AI builds and IT staff augmentation. With 400+ mostly certified professionals working out of Jaipur, India and a US presence in San Francisco, the company reports 900+ delivered projects for 710+ customers across 55+ countries.
Epidata is an Argentina-founded, privately owned technology company specializing in innovation outsourcing - transforming organizations through software architecture, engineering, and applied knowledge. Since 2003 it has grown into a multinational with roughly 700+ staff and offices across Latin America and San Francisco, delivering software development, staff augmentation, DevOps, big data, machine learning, RPA, testing and digital transformation to enterprises and governments including JP Morgan, HSBC, Walmart, Telecom, Tenaris and Asana.
Flexon Technologies is a Pleasanton, California-based IT services and staffing firm founded in 2015 that pairs technology consulting, custom software development and cloud/DevOps engineering with a global talent-sourcing practice. Under CEO Amar Bandaru, the roughly 120-person, bootstrapped company has moved into AI - building Talent360.ai, an AI-powered talent-management and recruiting platform, alongside a suite of vertical products (Flex EHR, Flex LMS, Flex TMS, Flex LPS, Flex FIT) aimed largely at healthcare and enterprise operations.
Forte Group is an AI-first software development and consulting firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Bootstrapped since day one, it delivers custom software, data and analytics, quality engineering, and Salesforce services through roughly 800-900 engineers across a dozen locations in the Americas and Europe. The company built its reputation on outcome-based engineering - tying its work to measurable business results rather than billable hours - and now embeds AI across the full product lifecycle for clients in finance, healthcare, logistics, retail, SaaS, and beyond.
Fresche Solutions is a Montreal-based enterprise software and services company that helps organizations manage, maintain, and modernize their IBM i (AS/400) and Microsoft systems. With more than 40 years of IBM i heritage, Fresche combines proprietary modernization tools such as X-Analysis, Presto, and Newlook with managed services, cloud hosting, and AI-driven data analytics to help legacy-dependent businesses move to modern web UIs, contemporary languages, and cloud platforms without disrupting operations.
Global Apps Inc is a Santa Clara-based business and IT consulting firm focused on enterprise cloud and AI implementation. Founded in 2016 by CEO Srikanth P, it helps Fortune 100 and mid-market clients modernize on platforms like Salesforce, Google Cloud, and IBM Watson through a shared-risk delivery model that pairs Silicon Valley architects with senior engineering teams in India. Its services span Salesforce implementation, cloud migration, AI/ML integration, and proprietary offerings such as urIntegrate (multi-cloud data management) and Patent Labs.
InfoBeans is a publicly listed (NSE/BSE) digital transformation and product engineering company founded in Indore, India in 2000. With roughly 1,600 employees across India, the USA, Germany and the UAE, it designs, builds and manages enterprise-grade software and increasingly focuses on 'last-mile' AI delivery. It is a Salesforce Summit Partner and a ServiceNow partner recognized as APAC Transformation Partner of the Year, and reports that a large and growing share of its revenue now comes from AI-augmented software.
InfoObjects Inc. is a San Jose-based AI consulting and digital transformation firm, founded in 2005 by Rishi Yadav. Built originally around the open-source big data stack - Apache Spark, Kafka and Hadoop - the company has repositioned around generative and agentic AI, offering services from data engineering and cloud migration to LLM fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and AI application development. It partners with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Anthropic and OpenAI, and works with enterprise clients across finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
Just After Midnight (JAM) is a London-founded, globally distributed managed services company that keeps mission-critical, customer-facing digital platforms running around the clock. It provides 24/7/365 application, website and cloud support, managed cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud, and DevOps consultancy - acting as the after-hours and full-stack support partner behind major brands and digital agencies. Founded in 2016 to solve the problem of out-of-hours support that agencies struggle to staff, JAM now operates across four continents and is part of the Ultima group.
K2view is an enterprise data company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Yokneam, Israel, with US operations in Texas. Its patented Data Product Platform is built on a proprietary micro-database technology that organizes fragmented enterprise data by business entity - a customer, order, product or loan - so each entity's data lives in its own encrypted, real-time, individually managed database. The approach powers data integration, test data management, data masking, synthetic data generation and, increasingly, AI-ready data pipelines that ground large language models and AI agents. K2view serves large enterprises in telecom, banking, healthcare, insurance and retail, including AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone and BBVA, and has raised roughly $43 million in funding.
NEKLO LLC is a US-headquartered custom software development firm that pairs an American front office with senior engineering teams in Eastern Europe. Founded in the mid-2000s and led by co-founder and CEO Ken Kopilevich, the roughly 200-person company builds web, mobile, e-commerce and AI products for clients in FinTech, healthcare, construction, retail and other industries. It is known for deep Adobe Commerce (Magento) expertise, a 5.0 rating on Clutch, and an unusually sticky client base - by its own account, most new work comes from returning customers.
Nextgen Technologies Inc is a San Jose, California IT services and software consulting firm built around data and AI. A Databricks partner, it helps enterprises in finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and life sciences move from raw data to working machine-learning systems - alongside custom software, cloud, mobile, CRM, QA automation and global talent acquisition. With roughly 210 people and an estimated $27M in annual revenue, the company sells speed: speed to action through accelerators, speed to value through domain expertise, and speed to scale through deep data partnerships.
NIC, operating as NIC IT Partner, is a Los Angeles-based managed service provider (MSP) that has delivered IT support, cybersecurity, cloud hosting, and backup and disaster recovery since 2002. Built for small and mid-sized businesses across regulated industries - healthcare, legal, finance, construction, and nonprofits - NIC runs a 24/7/365 operation with a tiered technical team, helping clients meet compliance requirements like HIPAA and CMMC while keeping their networks running.
Oddball is a McLean, Virginia-based digital services agency that modernizes how the U.S. government talks to its citizens. It builds and maintains some of the federal government's busiest websites - notably VA.gov for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare.gov for CMS - using human-centered design, agile engineering, and modern cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Travis Sorensen and CTO Rob Wilkinson, the remote-first firm calls itself 'a strangely human digital agency,' and grew to roughly 340-366 employees and ~$117M in annual prime contract revenue before taking a 2025 growth investment from private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners.
OnStak is a Milpitas, California enterprise AI consulting and hybrid-cloud services firm that helps large organizations move from AI experimentation to AI in production. With a delivery team that is roughly three-quarters AI architects and engineers, OnStak modernizes data platforms, applications and infrastructure across Cisco, NVIDIA, AWS, Oracle and on-premises environments, and ships AI products like AI Correlation Fabric, AI Assurance and AI Video Analytics. Its pitch is plain: 'Fluent in strategy, native in engineering' - straight talk about what is broken and what to fix first.
Questivity is a Santa Clara IT infrastructure integrator and training house. Founded in 1999, it designs, deploys, and supports the unglamorous plumbing of enterprise technology - networking, security, servers, storage, and virtualization - for mid-size and large organizations, and runs a parallel learning arm that hires, trains, and deploys engineers in Cisco, VMware, and data center disciplines. Its pitch is vendor-neutral: solve the client's problem with the right gear, on budget, rather than whatever a single manufacturer is selling.