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DecisionNext Wants Commodity Buyers to Upgrade Their Gut - Before the Market Sends the Bill
Commodity teams still make million-dollar calls with backward-looking data, stubborn spreadsheets and institutional instinct. DecisionNext turns that messy judgment into transparent forecasts, testable scenarios and decisions a CFO can defend.
The $3.7 Billion Bet on Giving Big Business a Better Memory
o9 Solutions wants to replace the monthly spreadsheet séance with a living model of the enterprise. Its wager: the company that remembers why a plan failed can make the next decision faster - and waste less along the way.
Ocula Technologies
The Belfast company builds AI agents that rewrite millions of product listings so retailers surface in Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity alike. Backed by Castelnau and Lloyds, it is betting the next shopper won't be human.
Haladir
Haladir is a San Francisco AI product lab (YC W26) building the decisional AI layer for logistics. It pairs formal optimization solvers with large language models so software can reason through hard constraints - routing, scheduling, labor and inventory allocation - and produce verifiable, optimal decisions instead of confident guesses. Its Nomos framework sits on top of existing WMS, TMS and OMS systems, unifies their data into one operational graph, and drives decisions through operator review, direct integration, or AI agents.
Shail Khiyara
Shail Khiyara is the CEO of SWARM Engineering, an agentic AI platform that helps industrial operators in food, agriculture and logistics turn messy data into decisions. He built his name as the marketing and customer chief behind three of the biggest names in robotic process automation - Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism and UiPath - before founding VOCAL, a think tank of 90+ Fortune 500 brands. A civil engineer by training who once worked on dams and pipelines at Bechtel, he is a two-time LinkedIn Top Voice in AI and co-author of books on intelligent and agentic automation.
Intelmatix
Intelmatix is a deep-tech enterprise AI company founded by MIT-trained technologists that builds EDIX, an Enterprise Decision Intelligence Platform designed to act as a 'digital brain' for organizations. Using context-aware AI agents, knowledge graphs and generative AI, EDIX lets companies sense, learn, decide and act across functions like demand forecasting, inventory, workforce planning and site selection - without needing an in-house data science team. Headquartered in Riyadh with offices in London and Boston, Intelmatix focuses on the MENA region, training on local context data that global platforms overlook. It raised a $20M Series A in 2024 - the region's largest AI Series A of its kind - and in 2025 became the first Saudi and MENA AI company named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
Dotwork
Dotwork is an AI-native strategy, portfolio, and product operations platform that connects goals, work, finance, and outcomes so enterprise leaders can align teams and steer decisions with confidence. Founded by Steve Elliott - who previously built AgileCraft and sold it to Atlassian, where it became Jira Align - the Georgetown, Texas company uses knowledge graphs, a no-code organizational ontology, and AI agents to turn strategy that is usually buried in slide decks and spreadsheets into a living, connected operating model. Dotwork raised a $12M Series A and counts product and portfolio leaders at companies like NVIDIA, GitHub, and SolarWinds among its early users.
Prescient AI
Prescient AI is a marketing measurement and optimization platform that uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to show brands how much revenue each advertising channel actually drives. Its marketing mix model (MMM) captures full-funnel impact - including the indirect halo effects campaigns have on organic lift and downstream revenue - then forecasts future performance and recommends budget allocation across DTC ecommerce, Amazon, and retail. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Miami, the company serves 100+ omnichannel and DTC brands and positions itself as an independent, privacy-safe alternative to last-click attribution.
Taktile
Taktile is an AI decision platform for banks, insurers and fintechs. Its Agentic Decision Platform lets risk and engineering teams combine AI agents, business rules, third-party data and human oversight to automate high-stakes decisions - approving customers, underwriting credit, flagging fraud and processing claims - using low-code building blocks, 200+ data integrations, and built-in testing and monitoring. Founded in 2020 by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, the company operates across New York, Berlin, London, Sao Paulo and Iasi, and raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026.
Palantir Technologies
Palantir Technologies builds software platforms that integrate large, messy data sets and put them to work for decision-making. Founded in 2003 in the shadow of PayPal's fraud-detection work, the company sells four flagship products - Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) - to governments, defense and intelligence agencies, and commercial enterprises in finance, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing. Led by co-founder and CEO Alex Karp, Palantir has grown from a controversial government contractor into a fast-growing public company riding demand for operational AI.
FICO
FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) is the analytics-software company behind the FICO Score, the credit-risk measure used in roughly 90% of top U.S. lending decisions. Founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, the company applies predictive analytics and AI to help banks, lenders, insurers and other enterprises make faster, data-driven decisions. Beyond the score, FICO sells the cloud-based FICO Platform and applications such as Falcon Fraud Manager and Blaze Advisor. Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana and traded on the NYSE as FICO, the lean, ~3,800-person firm reported record fiscal 2025 revenue of about $2.0 billion.
JazzX AI
JazzX AI is a Silicon Valley company building an end-to-end AI execution platform for the mortgage industry. Backed by enterprise-AI investment firm SAIGroup, it pursues what it calls Enterprise General Intelligence (EGI) - governed, policy-aware systems that automate the full loan lifecycle from intake to close while keeping decisions explainable and audit-ready. Rather than offering point tools, JazzX connects people, data, and workflows across existing LOS/POS systems to cut cost per loan, shorten time to close, and push more loans through the pipeline without replacing a lender's stack.
BlueOcean
BlueOcean is a San Francisco-based AI company that builds brand and marketing decision intelligence for large enterprises. Founded in 2019 by former agency marketers Grant McDougall and Liza Nebel, it pulls from thousands of public data sources to tell marketing leaders how their brand is performing against competitors in near real time. In 2025 the company shipped Spark, a marketing-specific agentic AI platform built on Amazon Bedrock, which early adopters like AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Roche and SAP say cut certain operational tasks by up to 97%. BlueOcean raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners in 2022 and has worked with brands representing trillions of dollars in market value.
LevaData
LevaData is an enterprise SaaS company that builds an AI-powered supply management platform for direct-materials procurement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, its Cognitive Supply Management platform blends a company's bill of materials and sourcing objectives with real-time market data covering over a billion parts and tens of thousands of suppliers to recommend cost savings, flag risks, and speed up new product introduction. It counts manufacturers and OEMs among its customers and raised a $47M Series C in 2021 led by Banneker Partners.
Steve Elliott
Steve Elliott is the founder and CEO of Dotwork, an AI-driven platform that connects corporate strategy to execution. He previously founded AgileCraft, which Atlassian bought in 2019 for $166M and rebranded as Jira Align, after which he ran product for the tool inside Atlassian. He co-founded The Uncertainty Project, a community for product leaders, and wrote The Decisive Company, a #1 Amazon bestseller. Dotwork, founded in 2022 and based in the Austin area, raised a $12M Series A in November 2023 with backing that included Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.
AMPL Optimization
AMPL Optimization builds the algebraic modeling language of the same name - a tool that lets engineers and analysts describe huge, messy real-world decision problems in clean mathematical notation and then hand them to any of dozens of solvers. Born at Bell Labs in the 1980s and now an independent California company, AMPL is used by more than 100 corporations across 40-plus industries to run optimization in production, from power grids and supply chains to portfolios and airline schedules.
JourneyTrack
JourneyTrack is a Miami-based enterprise SaaS platform for customer journey management. It gives CX, UX, product and leadership teams one governed place to build personas, map end-to-end customer journeys, score opportunities, and measure business impact - with a layer of AI (Journey AI, Insights AI, Persona AI, Storytelling AI) that turns qualitative research into board-ready decisions. Founded in 2021 by CX veteran Ania Rodriguez, the woman-founded company says more than 100 top brands, including Google, use it to find and recapture revenue lost to bad experiences.
SQOR.ai
SQOR.ai is a New York-based, AI-native decision intelligence platform that replaces legacy business-intelligence complexity with a plug-and-play system. It connects read-only to 800+ data sources and SaaS tools a company already uses, unifies their KPIs, and deploys 60+ AI agents that apply machine learning for causation, prediction, and recommendation - so operators, funds, and their LPs can ask questions in plain language and get objective answers in minutes instead of quarters. Its proprietary Execution Score Algorithm (ESA) quantifies operational health at the tool, division, and company level.
ThroughPut.ai
ThroughPut.ai is a Silicon Valley-based supply chain decision intelligence company that turns time-stamped operational data into fast, profit-focused decisions. Its AI platform - anchored by an engine named ELI - detects bottlenecks, senses demand, rebalances inventory, and optimizes capacity and logistics so manufacturers, distributors, and industrial operators can free up cash from operations they already run. Founded in 2017 by operators and serial industrial-tech entrepreneurs, the company works backward from real customer demand to match it with actual capacity.
Laz Fuentes
Laz Fuentes is the founder and CEO of SQOR.ai, a New York-based AI-native decision intelligence platform that turns scattered SaaS data into real-time KPI signals for executives. A former US Army infantry officer with the 10th Mountain Division and a five-year Salomon Brothers investment banker, he has spent the last two decades building, advising, and turning around technology and media companies, including roles at Warner Bros., YouGov, and Synup. He launched SQOR in 2022 to give operators the kind of single-pane intelligence he wished he had as an executive.
Simile
Simile is a Palo Alto applied AI lab building a foundation model that simulates human behavior. Spun out of Stanford by the team behind the viral 'Smallville' generative-agents paper, the company builds digital twins of customers, voters, employees and analysts so enterprises can rehearse decisions before making them. It emerged from stealth in February 2026 with a $100M Series A led by Index Ventures.
Ali Raza
Ali Raza is the founder and CEO of ThroughPut.ai, a Palo Alto supply chain decision-intelligence company that uses AI to detect, prioritize, and clear operational bottlenecks across factories and logistics networks. A University of Pennsylvania chemical engineer turned field-operations manager, he ran manufacturing and oilfield logistics in eight countries - including a stint as geomarket manager in Yemen during the 2015 Houthi takeover - before building software around the Theory of Constraints idea that every system is limited by one bottleneck at a time.
Bill Wells
Bill Wells is the CEO of AMPL Optimization Inc., the Mountain View company behind AMPL, the algebraic modeling language born at Bell Labs that has long been a gold standard for large-scale mathematical optimization. A UC Berkeley-trained mathematician, Wells runs the small but globally influential team that turns business-critical decisions in energy, finance, supply chain, and transportation into solvable models, while steering the company from a classic modeling language toward a modern, API-driven optimization platform.
Rowspace
Rowspace is a San Francisco AI company that turns a financial firm's own proprietary data into a compounding edge. Its platform connects structured and unstructured data across a firm's entire history, models how that firm operates and reasons, and delivers that intelligence inside the tools teams already use - Excel, Microsoft Teams, and internal systems. Founded by former Notion CTO Michael Manapat and two-time CFO Yibo Ling, Rowspace launched in February 2026 with $50 million from Sequoia, Emergence Capital, Stripe, and others. Firms managing hundreds of billions to nearly a trillion dollars in assets already use it for portfolio monitoring, multi-decade deal analysis, and credit portfolio optimization.
Profitmind
Profitmind (operated by Netail, Inc.) is a Pittsburgh-based retail decision-intelligence company that builds agentic AI to help merchandising teams make faster, more profitable pricing, assortment, inventory, promotion, and marketing decisions. Founded by retail veteran Dr. Mark Chrystal and incubated inside Andrew Ng's AI Fund/Landing AI ecosystem, its platform unifies a retailer's strategy, internal data, and external competitive signals into prioritized, explainable recommendations - serving retailers from $20M to $100B in revenue across three continents.
Fifth Dimension
Fifth Dimension is a London-based AI company building a decision-intelligence platform for real assets. Founded in 2023 by Dr. Kate Jarvis and Johnny Morris, its flagship AI assistant, Ellie, pulls unstructured data from leases, surveys, and deal documents, organizes it into formatted templates, and automates the document-heavy workflows that slow down real estate investors, lenders, and asset managers. In May 2026 it raised a roughly $26M (€22M) Series A led by HV Capital to scale across the UK and US.
Anaplan
Anaplan is a cloud platform for connected enterprise planning. It lets finance, supply chain, sales, and HR teams model the same business in real time, on a single multidimensional engine called Hyperblock, instead of fighting over disconnected spreadsheets. Founded in 2006 in a barn in Yorkshire, England, the company now serves more than 2,400 customers worldwide - including roughly half the Fortune 50 - and is privately held by Thoma Bravo after a $10.7 billion take-private in 2022.
Cognida.ai
Cognida.ai is an enterprise AI company that takes companies from AI ambition to deployed, measurable outcomes in weeks rather than quarters. Through its Zunō accelerator platform - covering predictive ML, computer vision, generative AI, integration and synthetic data - the team builds practical solutions for manufacturing, healthcare, finance and tech. Founded in 2022, headquartered in Sunnyvale with a major delivery hub in Hyderabad, the company raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025.
Lyric
Lyric is a Sunnyvale-based AI platform built for the people who actually run supply chains. Its Lyric Studio harmonizes data, algorithms, configurable workflows, and accelerated compute so that planners, engineers, and data scientists can model, test, and deploy decision intelligence apps - from demand forecasting and inventory to network design and transportation. Fortune 500 customers use it to compress months-long modeling cycles into days.
Ganesh Ramakrishna
Ganesh Ramakrishna is the Founder and CEO of Lyric, a Sunnyvale-based AI-native supply chain decision intelligence platform that raised a $43.5M Series B in August 2025. A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in operations research, he previously co-founded Opex Analytics — building it from zero to 140 employees before its acquisition by LLamasoft — and then played a key role as SVP in LLamasoft's $1.5B sale to Coupa Software. At Lyric, he is rebuilding how global enterprises design and deploy supply chain models, combining composable architecture, AI foundation models, and real-time analytics to serve customers including Coca-Cola, Mondelez International, and Google.