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Kantata
Kantata is a cloud software company that builds a purpose-built Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform for services organizations. Formed in 2021 through the merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications and backed by Accel-KKR, Kantata unifies project management, resource planning, time and expense tracking, billing, business intelligence and increasingly agentic AI so that consulting firms, agencies and other services businesses can scope, staff, forecast and deliver client work profitably. The company serves more than 2,000 organizations across 100+ countries, including Deloitte, Sage, Hitachi and NTT Data.
Michael Speranza
Michael Speranza is the CEO of Kantata, the professional services automation software company formed in 2022 from the merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications. A Rensselaer-trained electrical engineer who began his career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before pivoting to Deloitte Consulting and then a two-decade run inside private equity backed software companies, Speranza has specialized in scaling mid-market B2B software firms from roughly $100 million toward $1 billion in revenue.