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Soda Wants Your Data to Rat On Itself Before It Wrecks the Dashboard
The idea behind Soda is almost rude in its simplicity: software gets tested before it ships, so why does data get to skip the exam? Two Belgians decided it shouldn't.
Lightup Data
Lightup Data is a Mountain View-based enterprise data observability company that lets organizations monitor data quality at scale without moving their data. Its no-code platform pushes computation down into existing warehouses and lakehouses like Snowflake and Databricks, using AI-powered anomaly detection to catch data drift, outages, and discrepancies before they reach dashboards or AI models. Founded in 2019 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightup serves enterprises including AMD, Skechers, and KFC.
Barr Moses
Barr Moses is the co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, the company that created the data observability category and built one of the first end-to-end platforms for catching what she named 'data downtime' - the stretches when data is wrong, missing, or simply not trustworthy. A Stanford-trained mathematician and former Israeli Air Force intelligence data unit commander, she went from Bain consulting and a VP role at Gainsight to building a data reliability company valued at $1.6 billion. She co-authored O'Reilly's 'Data Quality Fundamentals' and is one of the most cited voices on why enterprises should treat broken data like broken software.
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo is the data and AI observability company that pioneered the 'data observability' category. Its platform helps enterprises detect, resolve, and prevent data and AI quality issues - what the company calls 'data downtime' - by monitoring data pipelines end to end, mapping lineage, surfacing anomalies, and tracing root causes. Founded in 2019 by Barr Moses and Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo serves 400+ enterprises including PepsiCo, Cisco, Nasdaq, and Comcast, and has raised $236M at a valuation of roughly $1.6B.
Manu Bansal
Manu Bansal is co-founder and CEO of Lightup, an AI-powered data quality and observability platform for the enterprise data stack. A Stanford EE PhD and IIT Kanpur alum, he first co-founded Uhana, a machine-learning analytics company for mobile carriers that VMware acquired in 2019. The grind of debugging bad data at Uhana became the seed for Lightup, which now runs hundreds of thousands of daily data-quality checks across petabytes of customer data and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Acceldata
Acceldata is an enterprise data observability and agentic data management company that helps large organizations monitor, govern, and optimize the pipelines, warehouses, and lakes powering modern analytics and AI. Founded in 2018 by former Hortonworks engineers, it now serves customers like Oracle, Verisk, PhonePe, and Dun & Bradstreet, and recently launched an Autonomous Data & AI Platform built around its xLake Model Context Protocol for agentic workloads.