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Seek AI Taught Databases to Answer Back
It gave curious colleagues a way around the analytics ticket queue, while keeping SQL and human review close at hand. Then IBM came calling.
Defog Lets You Question the Database, Not the Data Team
Defog turns plain-English hunches into SQL, charts, and follow-up questions while keeping the underlying data in your environment. It is built for teams whose most expensive dashboard is the one still waiting in an analyst's queue.
ThoughtSpot Is Teaching Business Intelligence to Answer Back
The company that made corporate data searchable is betting that the next dashboard will behave less like a report and more like a careful analyst - one that shows its work.
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.
Inventive
Inventive is a San Francisco startup building customer-facing AI that B2B SaaS companies embed inside their own products. Its first product, an embedded AI Analyst, lets a software vendor's customers use plain language to explore data, build custom reports, and act on insights. What sets Inventive apart is the layer around the agent: built-in quality and learning systems that test across accounts, catch mistakes, and propose fixes so the AI measurably improves week over week instead of degrading after a good demo. Founded in 2022 by ex-Google, Meta, and Microsoft product and platform veterans, the company launched out of stealth in June 2024 with a $6.5M seed round led by Wing VC.