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The Delhi Firm Doing the World's Data Homework
Blackcoffer turns messy enterprise data into dashboards and decisions for clients from consulting giants to a national central bank - 110 people, offices on three continents, and a name that doubles as a mission statement.
Molecule Software
Molecule is a Houston-based software company that builds cloud-native energy trading and risk management (ETRM) and commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software. Founded in 2012 by Sameer Soleja, Molecule replaces slow, on-premise legacy systems with a modern SaaS platform that captures trades, calculates real-time position and P&L, and handles risk analytics across 50+ commodities. Its add-on modules - Elektra for power markets, Hive for renewable certificates, Djinn for crypto, and Bigbang for data-lake analytics - let energy traders, utilities, hedge funds and commodity firms manage multi-asset portfolios in one place. The company has captured more than five million trades and raised a Series B round led by Sundance Growth in July 2025.
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.'
Kloudfuse
Kloudfuse is a Cupertino-based observability company that unifies metrics, logs, traces, real user monitoring, continuous profiling, and LLM monitoring into a single observability data lake that runs inside a customer's own cloud (VPC) rather than a vendor SaaS. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Springpath, Nicira, VMware, and Cisco, it pitches an OpenTelemetry-native, AI/ML-powered platform that gives enterprises data ownership and 60-80% cost savings versus incumbents like Datadog. It launched out of stealth in November 2023 with $23M in funding and is used by companies including GE HealthCare, Zscaler, Tata 1mg, and Automation Anywhere.
Aqfer
Aqfer is a white-label marketing data platform - 'The Marketing Data Engine' - that gives adtech and martech companies the heavy data infrastructure they need without building it themselves. Founded in 2018 by ad tech veterans Dan Jaye and Raymie Stata, Aqfer handles data collection, enterprise identity resolution, audience enablement, and AI data enablement at massive scale, processing trillions of rows of marketing data inside a client's own cloud. The pitch is blunt: cut back-end data costs by 40-50% and ship new data products in weeks instead of years.
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.
MinIO
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage company building the data layer for AI. Its software-defined storage runs on commodity hardware in private clouds, on-prem, and at the edge, and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 to power analytics, ML training, and exascale AI workloads.