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HistoryIT Turned Dusty Archives Into Searchable Assets - and Learned Scanning Was the Easy Part
Most organizations think digitizing history means buying a scanner. HistoryIT built a business around the expensive truth: the real work begins when someone must find, understand and use what was scanned.
The Invisible Machine Behind the World’s Libraries
A nonprofit in Dublin, Ohio, quietly runs the shared data and cloud systems that help nearly 30,000 member institutions catalog collections, lend across borders and put obscure holdings within reach.
Promethium
Promethium is a Menlo Park-based enterprise data company that builds an Instant Data Fabric - an agentic platform designed to give business users, analysts, and AI agents trusted, self-service access to data across hundreds of sources without first moving or centralizing it. Its federated query engine, 360 Context Engine, and conversational data-answer agent Mantra translate natural-language questions into governed SQL, metadata, lineage, and visualizations. Founded in 2018 by Kaycee Lai and now led by CEO Prat Moghe, the company has raised about $34.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners.
Sweep
Sweep is a New York-based enterprise software company building an agentic workspace for business systems like Salesforce, HubSpot and Snowflake. Its AI agents continuously read an organization's metadata to document changes, map dependencies, flag governance risks and surface high-impact improvements, giving business and technical teams a shared visual layer to plan and safely change complex CRM and data environments. Founded in 2021 by repeat entrepreneurs Ido Gaver and Eran Kirshenboim, Sweep has raised over $45M and counts LG Electronics, Brex, NBC Sports, Wix and Mass General Brigham among its customers.
Ascend.io
Ascend.io is a Palo Alto-based data engineering platform that uses AI agents to automate the building, running, and maintenance of data pipelines across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and beyond. Founded in 2015 by ex-Googler and Ooyala co-founder Sean Knapp, the company replaces hand-coded ETL plumbing with a metadata-driven automation engine and DataOps Agents that can write code, fix incidents and tune performance on their own.