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Gramener makes data earn its keep
A spreadsheet can describe a problem beautifully and still leave it untouched. Gramener builds the slides, maps and AI applications that carry an insight into someone’s working day.
The Company That Turns Opinions Into Headlines
We are Talker found a useful gap between the survey firm and the newsroom: ask better questions, turn the answers into human stories, then make those stories easy to publish. Now it is applying the same machinery to the strange new reader in the room - AI.
The Small Firm Translating Big Government
Kaptivate built a business around an unglamorous but valuable trick: making sprawling public programs legible enough to act on. Its best work begins where the memo, the dataset and the community meeting stop agreeing.
Mark Palmer Wants AI to Stop Guessing What Your Business Means
After helping turn streaming data into a software category, the former StreamBase CEO and TIBCO product chief is working on a new translation problem: giving enterprise AI the context to produce answers people can defend.
Adriana Gil Miner Has Spent a Career Making Data Speak. Now She Is Teaching Us Which Voices to Trust.
The arts-minded daughter of two engineers built her career finding human stories in numbers. At Pindrop, that instinct has led her to a harder question: what happens when a familiar voice is no longer proof of a familiar person?
Ellen Hui Put the Backend Engineer in the Boardroom
After petabyte queries, self-driving reliability, and real-time video, Ellen Hui tried to repair the place where company data so often goes to lose its freshness: the slide deck.
Charles Miglietti Bet That Business Data Needed a Better Story
An early startup taught him to find the customer before polishing the product. A decade later, the Toucan CEO is still turning complicated technology into something people can actually use.
Toucan Bootstrapped to $5 Million ARR - Then Bet the Company on Analytics You Can Talk To
The French founders let customers fund the product before investors got a look. A decade later, Toucan is making a sharper wager: the winning dashboard may be the one users never have to learn.
thorntale
thorntale (YC W24) is a San Francisco software company that built presentation tools for data storytelling. Instead of screenshotting charts from Looker or Snowflake into Google Slides, teams could connect live data sources directly into decks, so charts stayed interactive and up to date - even re-segmentable during a live Q&A. Founded in 2024 by data scientist Dori Wilson with engineers Ellen Hui and John Stimac, the company later pivoted toward an AI-powered presentation editor and shipped a free AI Presentation Review tool before winding the core Presentations product down at the end of 2025.
Will Salcido
Will Salcido is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bedrock Analytics, an AI-powered CPG data analytics platform that transforms syndicated and retailer data into compelling sales stories for consumer goods manufacturers. A Cornell-trained economist who cut his teeth at Nestlé, Novartis, Ghirardelli, and Lindt & Sprüngli across 12 countries, Salcido bet half his 401(k) on the idea that data storytelling - not raw dashboards - was the missing link between CPG brands and retail shelf space. Today, Bedrock tracks over $100 billion in CPG sales monthly, serves clients across 350+ product categories, and runs a multi-model AI stack using ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama to automate insight generation at scale.