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nao Labs
nao Labs builds an AI-native code editor for data teams - a local, VS Code-based IDE wired directly into your data warehouse, with an AI copilot that understands your schema, catches breaking changes, and runs data diffs before you ship. Founded in 2024 by Claire Gouze and Christophe Blefari and backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2025), nao is pitched as 'Cursor for data' and, more recently, an open-source analytics agent builder that lets non-technical users query data in plain English.
Vero
Vero is a Sydney-based customer engagement platform that helps product-led teams send personalized email, mobile push and SMS messages triggered by what users actually do inside a product. Founded in 2012 by Chris Hexton and James Lamont, Vero pairs a real-time behavioural workflow engine with Vero Connect, an approach that reads directly from a company's data warehouse so teams can message customers without duplicating their data into yet another marketing tool.
Tejas Manohar
Tejas Manohar is the cofounder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the San Francisco company that helped create the Composable CDP category by bringing customer data platform capabilities directly onto the data warehouse. He moved to San Francisco at 16 to become one of Segment's first ten engineers, then left in 2018 to start Hightouch with Kashish Gupta and Josh Curl. Under his leadership Hightouch has crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue and raised a $150M Series D in April 2026 at a $2.75B valuation, pivoting the company toward AI Decisioning and agentic marketing.
One Lake to Rule Them All: Microsoft Fabric Ends the Great Data Copy
Microsoft Fabric is a unified, AI-powered data analytics platform that folds data engineering, data science, data warehousing, real-time intelligence, and Power BI business intelligence into one software-as-a-service experience. At its center sits OneLake, a single multi-cloud data lake that removes the need to copy and move data between tools. Copilot is threaded through every workload, letting people build pipelines, notebooks, and reports with natural language. Generally available since November 2023, Fabric is used by tens of thousands of organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 500.
Equals
Equals is a next-generation spreadsheet built for business analytics. Founded by two Intercom veterans, it pairs the familiar spreadsheet grid with live connections to data warehouses and business tools, version control, real-time collaboration and, more recently, AI-assisted analysis. The company positions itself as 'AI for the numbers that can't be wrong,' aiming to give finance and go-to-market teams a single, trustworthy place to model ARR, pipeline, retention and other core metrics without exporting CSVs or standing up heavyweight BI stacks.
Polar Analytics
Polar Analytics is a multichannel AI analytics platform for ecommerce and direct-to-consumer brands, built to unify scattered marketing, sales and CRM data into one dashboard on top of a warehouse-native data stack. Founded in 2021 by David Dokes and Charbel Seif, it centralizes 45+ data sources, tracks metrics like CAC, ROAS, MER and LTV, and layers AI agents and a Model Context Protocol connector so merchants can query live data and act on it. Polar serves 4,000+ brands across 45 countries and has raised roughly $28.5M, including an $18M Series A led by Chalfen Ventures in November 2024.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that lets organizations store, analyze, and share data across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2012 by three former data architects, it separated compute from storage to make large-scale analytics elastic and pay-per-use. Now positioned as an 'AI Data Cloud,' the company adds managed AI services through Snowflake Cortex and governed agentic tools, serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide.
Databricks
Databricks is a San Francisco-based data and AI company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. It builds the Data Intelligence Platform - a lakehouse architecture that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on open formats. Used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, Databricks helps enterprises store, govern, and analyze data and build AI applications on top of it, all under a single governance model.
GrowthLoop
GrowthLoop is an agentic, composable customer data platform (CDP) that runs directly on a company's cloud data warehouse - Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or Redshift - so marketing teams can build audiences, orchestrate journeys, and measure results without copying data into a separate system. Formerly Flywheel Software, the company pitches a 'Compound Marketing Engine' that pairs a no-code, drag-and-drop audience builder with AI 'Growth Agents' that suggest segments, build journeys, and optimize campaigns. It serves large enterprises including Ford, Costco, Albertsons, NerdWallet and major sports organizations.
Zenysis Technologies
Zenysis Technologies builds data-integration and analytics software for governments and health institutions in low- and middle-income countries. Its flagship product, Harmony, is an open-source platform that pulls together fragmented health data - program records, financials, geospatial layers, surveys - into a single workspace so decision-makers can respond to disease outbreaks, run vaccination campaigns, and manage national health programs. Founded in 2016 by former UN diplomat Jonathan Stambolis, the company has deployed across roughly ten countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and is backed by grant funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, and the Global Fund.
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.
Cotera
Cotera is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed AI platform that lets go-to-market and operations teams build autonomous agents by describing tasks in plain English - no flowcharts and no code. The agents connect directly to a company's data warehouse, CRM, and 200+ business tools, then take real action on real data: routing support tickets, analyzing customer feedback, enriching leads, monitoring account health, and automating repetitive back-office work. Founded in 2021 by Ibby Syed and Tom Firth, Cotera pitches itself for people who think busywork is boring.
Espresso AI
Espresso AI is a New York-based startup that uses large language models and machine learning to automatically cut cloud data-warehouse bills. Founded in 2023 by three former Googlers, it markets a 'neural optimizer' - a set of AI agents that autoscale, schedule and rewrite SQL on platforms like Snowflake and Databricks, promising up to ~70% cost savings without changing query results. The company emerged from stealth in May 2024 with $11M in seed funding from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and FirstMark.
Polytomic
Polytomic is a San Francisco data-movement company that unifies ETL, Reverse ETL, and CDC streaming in a single platform, letting teams keep data warehouses, databases, and SaaS tools in sync without maintaining brittle one-off pipelines. Founded in 2019 by former PlanGrid engineers Ghalib Suleiman and Nathan Yergler and backed by Y Combinator, it pairs a no-code interface for business teams with SQL, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code controls for data engineers.
Portable
Portable is a New York-based ELT platform that builds data connectors on-demand, specializing in the long tail of niche business applications that larger integration vendors ignore. Founded in 2020 by Ethan Aaron, it lets data teams pull data from thousands of sources into warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and PostgreSQL with no code, flat predictable pricing regardless of data volume, and hands-on custom connector development delivered in hours or days.
Roe AI
Roe AI builds agentic AI that investigates fraud, disputes, and anti-money-laundering (AML) cases end to end - reading documents, images, websites, and structured data to produce cited evidence and audit-ready dispositions. Founded in 2024 by ex-Snowflake and ex-Meta engineers and backed by Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator, the company started as an AI-powered data warehouse for querying unstructured data with SQL and sharpened into a financial-crime investigation platform used by teams at Affirm, eBay, and a Global Systemically Important Bank.
Tenjin
Tenjin is a San Francisco-based mobile measurement partner (MMP) that gives app and game developers affordable, transparent marketing analytics. Founded in 2014 out of Y Combinator, it bundles mobile attribution, ad-revenue aggregation, LTV prediction, cost reporting, fraud prevention, and a marketing data warehouse (DataVault) into a single all-inclusive platform - built for the 'marketing scientist' who would rather analyze data than wrangle it.
Teramot
Teramot is an AI-powered data infrastructure company that connects any AI model - Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini - to a company's real data in under an hour, with no technical team required. Its system of specialized AI agents inspects existing databases, warehouses, ERPs, CRMs and APIs, detects data-quality issues, proposes transformations and generates transparent, auditable SQL that produces a production-ready, queryable data layer called a Gold Table. Founded in 2022 (formerly Halley) and led by CEO Bruno Ruyu, the company is based in San Francisco with roots in Cordoba, Argentina.
Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner is the co-founder and CEO of Espresso AI, a New York startup building what it calls the first neural compute optimizer - software that uses large language models to rewrite SQL and reallocate compute so companies cut their Snowflake and Databricks bills by up to 70%. A former Google and DeepMind engineer who worked on search, storage infrastructure, and early code-LLM research, Lerner left Big Tech to merge the two halves of his career - machine learning and systems performance - into a single product. Espresso launched from stealth in May 2024 with over $11 million in seed funding from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and FirstMark's Matt Turck.
Christopher Farm
Christopher Farm is the co-founder and CEO of Tenjin, a San Francisco mobile marketing analytics and attribution company that grew out of Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer who detoured through investment banking, corporate M&A and mobile ad product roles before building tools for app developers, Farm has turned Tenjin into one of the data backbones for indie and mid-size mobile game studios trying to measure where their users come from and whether they are worth the money.
Ethan Aaron
Ethan Aaron is the founder and CEO of Portable, a New York based ETL/ELT company that builds the data connectors nobody else wants to build. Where the rest of the data-pipeline industry chases the same handful of popular sources, Portable went after the long tail - thousands of niche, bespoke business applications - with no-code connectors and flat, no-volume pricing. A Penn-trained mechanical engineer and Wharton economist who passed through Goldman Sachs and LiveRamp before founding the company, Aaron is one of the data world's most prolific public voices, posting daily on LinkedIn and pushing a blunt thesis: data teams exist to make money, not to collect tools.
Ghalib Suleiman
Ghalib Suleiman is the CEO and co-founder of Polytomic, a San Francisco data-integration company that lets teams sync data between databases, warehouses, business systems like Salesforce and Stripe, spreadsheets, and arbitrary HTTP APIs without writing custom pipelines. He built the company with CTO Nathan Yergler after running the data team at PlanGrid during its growth from 25 to 350 people and its near-billion-dollar sale to Autodesk. Polytomic went through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, pivoted during the program, and raised a $2.4M seed, winning early customers including Brex, Vanta, Sourcegraph, and ShipBob.
Ibby Syed
Ibby Syed is the founder and CEO of Cotera, a New York-based Y Combinator (W22) startup building an agentic AI platform that lets enterprise teams spin up AI agents on top of their own data warehouses. Peloton's first data science hire and a Harvard applied math graduate, he co-founded Cotera with Tom Firth, survived a long stint stuck in the 'consulting trap,' and pivoted the company from a churn-analytics dashboard into a prompt-based AI agent builder now serving customers like Bilt, OpenSea, Skims and Coterie at roughly $1M ARR.
Richard Meng
Richard Meng is the co-founder and CEO of Roe AI, a Y Combinator-backed (W24) startup building an AI-powered data warehouse that lets data teams query unstructured, multimodal data - documents, images, web pages, video - with plain SQL. A UC Berkeley CS and Statistics double major, he previously led generative AI engineering at Snowflake and worked on the Skills and Knowledge Graph products at LinkedIn before founding Roe AI in 2023 to solve a problem that nagged him for a decade: the 80% of enterprise data that never gets used because it isn't in neat rows and columns.
Metabase
Metabase is an open source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that lets anyone - not just analysts - ask questions of their data and build dashboards without writing SQL. Founded in 2014 and spun out of the Expa venture studio, it pairs a friendly visual query builder with a full SQL editor, connects to 20+ databases, and offers white-label embedding so software companies can ship customer-facing analytics. With a free self-hosted edition and paid Cloud and Enterprise tiers, Metabase is used by tens of thousands of companies worldwide.
Mozart Data
Mozart Data is a San Francisco-based startup that gives companies an out-of-the-box modern data stack - a managed Snowflake warehouse, no-code ETL connectors, a SQL transformation layer, and built-in observability - so non-engineers can go from siloed, messy data to analysis-ready in about an hour. Founded in 2020 by Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman and backed by Y Combinator, it lets startups and SMBs skip the months of plumbing usually needed to stand up data infrastructure.
PostHog
PostHog is an all-in-one, open-source developer platform that bundles product analytics, web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, experiments, surveys, error tracking, a customer data platform, and a data warehouse into a single stack engineers can self-host or run in the cloud. Founded in 2020 by James Hawkins and Tim Glaser through Y Combinator, it lets product engineers track usage, ship features, and keep customer data in one place rather than stitching together a dozen SaaS tools. The company reached unicorn status in 2025 with a $75M Series E at a $1.4B valuation.
Spiral
Spiral is a New York-based data infrastructure company building a database reimagined from the ground up for the AI era - what it calls the 'Third Age of Data,' when machines, not humans, are the primary consumers of data. Built on Vortex, an open-source columnar file format donated to the Linux Foundation, Spiral streams data directly from object storage into GPU memory, unifies governance across every data type from tiny embeddings to massive video, and aims to keep expensive GPUs saturated instead of idle. Founded by ex-Palantir and ex-Citadel engineers, it emerged from stealth in September 2025 with $22M in Seed and Series A funding led by General Catalyst and Amplify Partners.
Allium
Allium is a New York and Singapore based blockchain data infrastructure company that turns raw, messy on-chain activity from 150+ chains and thousands of protocols into clean, query-ready data. Through APIs, real-time streams, data shares, and an analytics terminal, it serves as a system of record for on-chain finance, powering institutions like Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, and Phantom. The company raised a $16.5M Series A in July 2024 led by Theory Ventures.
ClickHouse
ClickHouse is the open-source columnar database engineered for real-time analytics on petabyte-scale data. Born inside Yandex in 2009 and spun out as ClickHouse, Inc. in 2021, it now powers analytics for Anthropic, Tesla, Sony, Meta, Lyft, and roughly 3,000 other paying customers as a managed cloud service.