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Ryohei Fujimaki
Ryohei Fujimaki is the founder and CEO of dotData, a Silicon Valley enterprise AI company that automates feature engineering and data science. A machine learning PhD from the University of Tokyo, he became the youngest research fellow in NEC's 119-year history at age 33 before spinning dotData out of NEC to commercialize automated feature discovery. He has raised roughly $75 million to make predictive analytics accessible to a broader range of business users.
Pecan AI
Pecan AI is an Israeli-American software company that builds a predictive analytics platform aimed at business teams rather than data scientists. Founded in 2018 by computational-neuroscience PhDs Zohar Bronfman and Noam Brezis, Pecan combines automated machine learning with large language models - a category it calls Predictive GenAI - so analysts can describe a business problem in plain language and get production-ready predictive models for churn, customer lifetime value, demand forecasting, lead scoring and campaign ROI. The company has raised roughly $127M, including a $66M Series C in 2022 led by Insight Partners with GV and GGV Capital, and in 2025 launched DemandForecast.ai for supply-chain forecasting.
dotData
dotData is a Silicon Valley enterprise AI company that automates the most time-consuming part of data science: feature engineering. Spun out of NEC Corporation in 2018 and led by founder Ryohei Fujimaki, dotData builds software that automatically discovers signals hidden across multiple data tables and turns them into predictive features and business hypotheses. Its products - dotData Enterprise, Feature Factory, and the generative-AI-powered dotData Insight - let analysts and data scientists build models and surface KPI drivers in a fraction of the usual time, and are used heavily in financial services, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and telecom.
Erin Tavgac
Erin Tavgac is the co-founder and CEO of Redbird, a New York based AI-powered analytics platform that lets non-technical employees run the full analytics pipeline - data prep, wrangling, analysis, reporting and data science - through natural language instead of code. A Stanford-trained ex-McKinsey consultant who spent a decade building data and consumer-insights practices, Tavgac launched the company (originally Cube Analytics) with brother Deren Tavgac, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital. By 2024 Redbird had reframed itself around conversational AI agents and counted eight Fortune 50 brands among its customers.