data-as-a-service
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BB Media knows where the shows are. Now comes the harder part.
For decades, BB Media counted the choices on our screens. Inside Fabric, its next job is to help the entertainment business turn that knowledge into decisions - and get the paperwork to follow.
Aggregate Intelligence and the price that disappears at checkout
A fare is easy to collect and surprisingly hard to compare. Aggregate Intelligence has built a business around the awkward distance between what a travel company publishes and what a customer actually sees.
Rekor and the road that learned to read
Rekor turns passing traffic into searchable intelligence. Its more interesting experiment is whether roads can become easier to manage without becoming harder to trust.
Geoff Michener Built a Business From the Places the Internet Forgot
He went looking for a cleaner database and found an untidy world. Dataplor's founder turned that mess into a global location-intelligence company by pairing machines with people who still bother to check.
Javier Marti Wants to Build the Google Maps of Water
After satellites, a desert observatory and a continent-sized climate project, the Spanish engineer chose a harder map to draw: water in motion. His Boulder company, Divirod, is turning reflected navigation signals into an early-warning layer for a wetter, less predictable world.
YipitData’s Coupon Business Died. The Data Exhaust Became a $1 Billion Company
Yipit started by saving shoppers from coupon-email purgatory. When daily deals cooled, its founders discovered that hedge funds would pay far more for the machinery underneath - a pivot worth studying by anyone sitting on an overlooked data asset.
Similarweb
Similarweb built a business by measuring what companies cannot see in their own analytics: everyone else. Now it is turning that outside-in view of the internet into fuel for marketers, investors, retailers and AI agents.
Bobble AI
Most people type on a keyboard without thinking about it. Bobble AI built a business on the few seconds you spend there - turning stickers, transliteration and predictive text into a 100-million-user media platform.
NewsCatcher
NewsCatcher is a news and web search API company that turns the open web into a clean, structured database of real-world events. It pulls from 90,000+ global sources, then deduplicates, enriches, and standardizes the articles so risk, finance, and AI teams can query news the way they query a database. Founded by Artem Bugara and Maksym Sugonyaka, it went through Y Combinator in Summer 2022.
Aidentified
Aidentified is a Boston-area AI company that maps who is wealthy, who they know, and when they come into money. Its platform combines 300M+ consumer and professional profiles with relationship graphs covering 16 billion first-degree connections to help financial advisors, wealth managers, insurers and nonprofit fundraisers find high-value prospects and reach them through warm introductions rather than cold outreach. Founded in 2017 and backed by financial-data giant FactSet, it delivers its wealth-and-relationship intelligence through a web app, CRM integrations, an API and data-as-a-service pipelines.
SkyFi
SkyFi is an Austin, Texas-based Earth intelligence company that runs a self-service marketplace for satellite imagery and analytics. Through a single web platform, mobile app and API, customers can search archives, task satellites and buy optical, SAR, hyperspectral and aerial imagery from more than 50 commercial providers - then run built-in AI analytics on it. Founded in 2021 by Luke Fischer and Bill Perkins, SkyFi aims to make geospatial data as easy to order as a rideshare, serving defense, government, finance, energy, agriculture, insurance and infrastructure customers worldwide.
K2view
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.
Tom Aley
Tom Aley is the co-CEO and co-founder of Aidentified, a Concord, Massachusetts wealth-network-intelligence platform that stitches together roughly 275 million consumer and 75 million professional US profiles so financial advisors can see who they already know who happens to be worth a lot of money. He runs the company with his twin brother Darr Aley, and it is not their first exit together: they built Generate (acquired by Dow Jones/News Corp in 2008) and backed NetProspex (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet). Before founding companies he was a corporate venture investor for Reed Elsevier's $8 billion media arm, an SVP at Dow Jones, and a board member on eleven companies. In June 2024, FactSet made a strategic $12.5 million Series B investment in the company.
Ben Eisenberg
Ben Eisenberg is the CEO of People Data Labs, the B2B data company that supplies the clean, structured person and company datasets behind AI models, recruiting platforms, and sales tools. He joined as a product hire, climbed through senior roles across the business over seven years, and in September 2024 took over from the founders with a mandate to push the company toward $100M ARR. A UC Berkeley computer science and history double major, he is known for a pure data-company philosophy, a compliance-first stance, and a self-deprecating sense of humor (his LinkedIn handle is, proudly, li-influencer).
People Data Labs
People Data Labs is a data-as-a-service company that sells clean, structured B2B data through developer-friendly APIs. Instead of selling dashboards or seats, it sells the raw material - billions of professional and company records that engineers, data scientists, and product teams use to build their own tools for recruiting, sales, marketing, identity verification, and AI. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company positions itself as the data layer underneath other companies' products rather than a competitor to them.
Apeiron Labs
Apeiron Labs is a Cambridge, Massachusetts deep-tech company building the Tensor platform - large, low-cost networks of small autonomous underwater vehicles that persistently measure the upper 400 meters of the ocean. By making subsurface ocean data cheap and continuous instead of episodic and expensive, Apeiron sells real-time ocean intelligence as a service to defense, climate, offshore energy, aquaculture, and maritime customers. The company raised a $9.5M Series A in February 2026 and says it has already cut the cost of ocean data roughly 100-fold, with a goal of 1,000-fold.
Vimaan
Vimaan is a Silicon Valley computer vision and AI company that gives warehouses a 100% accurate, real-time view of their inventory. Using cameras, sensors, and proprietary algorithms, Vimaan automates receiving, put-away, cycle counting, picking, order validation, and shipping for 3PLs, brands, and retailers.
WindBorne Systems
WindBorne Systems is building a planetary nervous system for Earth's atmosphere. The Redwood City company operates a constellation of autonomous long-duration balloons that gather high-resolution atmospheric data from remote and ocean regions previously invisible to weather models - then feeds that data into WeatherMesh, its in-house AI forecasting model that has surpassed Google DeepMind's GraphCast as the world's most accurate medium-range global weather forecast. With backing from Khosla Ventures, the Gates Foundation, and U.S. military contracts, WindBorne is making a credible run at replacing century-old weather infrastructure.