Unravel Data is a Mountain View, California company building an AI-native data observability and optimization platform. It plugs into modern data stacks - Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Cloudera - and uses AI, machine learning and a context graph of workloads, infrastructure and users to automatically troubleshoot, tune and control the cost of data pipelines. Where most monitoring tools stop at telling teams what is wrong, Unravel aims to fix it: its newest engine, Arvix AI, rewrites code, reconfigures infrastructure and validates the changes before deploying them, so data engineers can build instead of firefight.
Varun Banka is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlan, the active metadata platform and data governance control plane trusted by 200+ enterprise customers across 50+ countries. Originally from Ranchi, India, Varun co-founded SocialCops with Prukalpa Sankar while studying at Nanyang Technological University - a data-for-social-good company that powered India's national data platform used by PM Modi and impacted over a billion lives. When their internal data tooling made their own team 6x more agile, they realized the world's data teams needed the same. Atlan was born, raised $105M Series C in May 2024 at a $750M valuation, and is now building what it calls the 'context layer for the AI-native enterprise.'
Sean Knapp is the founder and CEO of Ascend.io, an AI-native data engineering platform that unifies ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability into a single product. A Stanford-trained computer scientist, he previously built iGoogle at Google and co-founded Ooyala — a video platform that raised $120M and sold for $400M+. At Ascend, he is building what he calls 'Agentic Data Engineering,' where AI agents handle the operational burden that buries data teams, freeing engineers for strategic work.