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Vinay Samuel
Vinay Samuel is the founder and CEO of Zetaris, a data virtualization and analytical data fabric company he started in a Melbourne garage in 2013 after walking away from a million-dollar executive contract. A first-generation Australian and self-taught programmer since age 14, he spent two decades in senior roles at Teradata, Greenplum, Vertica and Hewlett-Packard before building technology that lets enterprises query data wherever it lives, without first moving it into a data lake. Zetaris has raised roughly $30 million from investors including In-Q-Tel, works with customers such as Telstra, NBN, Optus, Nokia and Melbourne Water, and now positions its platform to prepare data for AI faster and at lower cost.
DataBahn
DataBahn is an AI-powered, security-native data pipeline and fabric platform that helps enterprises collect, enrich, orchestrate and optimize telemetry across security, observability, application and IoT/OT systems. Its agentic products - Cruz, Reef and Phantom agents - automate data engineering work, cut noise and reduce SIEM/telemetry costs by more than 50% while preserving visibility for security and IT teams.
Promethium
Promethium is a Menlo Park-based enterprise data company that builds an Instant Data Fabric - an agentic platform designed to give business users, analysts, and AI agents trusted, self-service access to data across hundreds of sources without first moving or centralizing it. Its federated query engine, 360 Context Engine, and conversational data-answer agent Mantra translate natural-language questions into governed SQL, metadata, lineage, and visualizations. Founded in 2018 by Kaycee Lai and now led by CEO Prat Moghe, the company has raised about $34.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners.
Fabrix.ai
Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix) is a Pleasanton, California enterprise software company building an agentic operational intelligence platform. It lets organizations design, deploy, operate and observe AI agents across IT, network, security and business operations, anchored by a tri-fabric architecture of Data Fabric, AI Fabric and Automation Fabric. The company positions itself for the 'agentic AI era' with production-grade governance, explainability and human-in-the-loop controls.
Raju Datla
Raju Datla is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix), an AI-native IT operations platform he founded in 2015. Before Fabrix.ai, he sold two companies to Cisco - Jahi Networks (~$16M, 2004) and Cloupia ($125M, 2012), the latter becoming the foundation of Cisco's UCS management suite. At Fabrix.ai, he is pioneering Agentic AI for enterprise IT operations through a Robotic Data Automation Fabric that unifies data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, and workflow automation at scale.
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.
LigaData
LigaData is a Silicon Valley enterprise AI and data company that helps regulated industries - primarily telecom operators and financial-services firms - turn siloed operational data into trusted, AI-ready intelligence. Founded in 2014 by Bassel Ojjeh and Krishna Uppala, it builds carrier-grade data products such as the Telecom Data Fabric, AI Fabric, SubscriberIQ apps and the Time Machine data-protection platform, plus managed and professional services. LigaData says its software supports 35+ communications service providers and hundreds of millions of subscribers worldwide, helping telcos transform 'from Telcos into Techcos.'
Zetaris
Zetaris is an Australian enterprise data company building an open, agentic data lakehouse that lets organizations query and prepare data across many disparate sources without moving or copying it. Founded in 2013 in Melbourne by Vinay Samuel and Jason Jaesung Jun, the platform uses federated, in-place querying with intelligent multi-engine routing (Spark, Trino, Presto, DuckDB) and a unified semantic layer to feed private, governed AI workloads. It positions itself as a control plane for enterprise AI rather than another business-intelligence tool.
Prat Moghe
Prat Moghe is the CEO of Promethium, a Menlo Park data fabric and self-service analytics startup he took over in October 2024 after founder Kaycee Lai moved to Chief Strategy Officer. A UCLA-trained electrical engineer, Moghe started at Bell Labs, ran product and strategy at Netezza through its $1.7B IBM acquisition, founded cloud data-as-a-service company Cazena (later acquired by Cloudera, where he became EVP), and served as president of TiE Boston.
Denodo
Denodo is a Palo Alto-headquartered enterprise software company whose flagship Denodo Platform pioneered data virtualization - a way to query data wherever it lives without copying it first. Founded in 1999 by Dr. Angel Vina out of research at Spain's University of A Coruna, the company now serves hundreds of large enterprises and has been named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools for six consecutive years.
Angel Vina
Dr. Angel Vina is the Founder and CEO of Denodo Technologies, the global leader in data virtualization and data management platforms. A former academic who spent 25 years as a university professor at institutions including the Technical University of Madrid and the University of A Coruña - with postdoctoral research stints at UCLA and Stanford - Vina founded Denodo in Spain in 1999 after asking a deceptively simple question: how can we set data free? Today Denodo operates in 25 offices across 20 countries, has secured $336 million in Series B funding from TPG, and has been named a Gartner Leader in Data Integration Tools for five consecutive years. Vina's academic obsession with real-time distributed data systems became a commercial category - and a company that turned 25 in 2025.
Nexla
Nexla is a unified data operations platform that turns fragmented enterprise data into AI-ready data products - called Nexsets - so analysts, engineers, and AI agents can integrate, transform, and govern data without writing code.
Bassel Ojjeh
Bassel Ojjeh is the CEO and co-founder of LigaData, a Menlo Park-based data platform company specializing in AI-powered telecom analytics and big data infrastructure. A Syrian-American serial entrepreneur, Ojjeh previously co-founded digiMine (behavioral targeting pioneer, later Audience Science), DMX Group (acquired by Yahoo, where he served as SVP), and nPario (big data platform). He also co-founded Syria's first English-language private university and SYNC, the first international tech conference held in Syria in 50 years, working to bridge Silicon Valley with Damascus.
Ronen Schwartz
Ronen Schwartz is the CEO of K2view, an Israeli-founded data product company at the forefront of enterprise AI readiness. With 25 years in the data industry — including a 14-year run at Informatica and a stint at NetApp where he grew the cloud storage business 12-fold to dominate a $600M division — Schwartz took the helm at K2view in December 2023. He is focused on turning fragmented enterprise data into live, governed data products that power agentic AI applications at scale, positioning K2view as the infrastructure layer that makes real-time AI not just possible, but production-ready.
Saket Saurabh
Saket Saurabh is the co-founder and CEO of Nexla, an AI-powered data integration platform built for the age of generative AI. A serial entrepreneur who started as an engineer at NVIDIA — where he worked on GPU tech for the PlayStation 3 and automotive computing — he went on to co-found Mobsmith, a mobile ad-serving startup that was acquired by Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI). Armed with a BTech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from The Wharton School, Saket founded Nexla in 2016 to automate the hardest parts of data engineering, earning recognition as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor and landing enterprise customers like DoorDash, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express. Nexla has raised $33.5 million in funding.