
Polymer began by making spreadsheets searchable. Its sharper pitch now is to put polished, self-serve analytics inside the software your customers already use - without building a BI team first.

Give Julius a workbook and a decent question, and it will do the coding, draw the chart, and draft the deck. The bargain is speed in exchange for one non-negotiable chore: check the numbers.
The French founders let customers fund the product before investors got a look. A decade later, Toucan is making a sharper wager: the winning dashboard may be the one users never have to learn.

After two decades inside enterprise data products, the Savant Labs founder is betting that AI earns its place at work through repeatability, governance, and fewer wasted hours - not a clever demo.
Alteryx made its name by rescuing analysts from copy-paste work. Now the privately owned software veteran is betting that the same visual workflows can make enterprise AI useful, governed and repeatable.
Tracer is a New York-based collaborative data intelligence platform that aggregates, normalizes, and enriches data from any source - ad platforms, sales systems, commerce, and finance - into a governed, unified layer that non-technical teams can query in real time. Incubated inside VaynerMedia starting in 2015 and spun out as an independent company in 2021, Tracer positions itself as 'the intelligence layer for AI-driven enterprises,' serving more than 200 customers including Sanofi, Papa Johns, Conde Nast, and Headspace. The company has raised roughly $30M-$58M across rounds, including an oversubscribed $18.1M Series A in August 2023.
Cipherome is a San Jose-based clinical genomics and bioinformatics company on a mission to find the drug that works for each individual. Its no-code platform COMPASS lets researchers transform, query, and analyze massive clinical and genomic datasets - like the 500,000-participant UK Biobank - without writing code, while its Xentinel platform uses explainable AI to predict and reduce adverse drug reactions. Backed by roughly $16-23M through a Series B, the 12-person team pairs Silicon Valley software with Seoul National University biomedical-informatics research.
Savant Labs is a San Mateo-based software company building an agentic AI platform that lets business analysts automate the whole analytics pipeline - accessing, cleaning, blending, matching, and reporting on data - without writing code. Its Agentic Analytics Suite connects to hundreds of data sources and uses AI agents grounded in business-process knowledge to cut manual work, positioning itself as a faster, cheaper alternative to tools like Alteryx. Founded in 2021 and backed by Dell Technologies Capital, the company raised an $18.5M Series A in early 2025.
Michael Chang is the founder and CEO of Synergies Intelligent Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts company building JarviX, a no-code augmented analytics platform that lets factory workers and executives 'talk to their data' in plain language. An MIT-trained PhD in electrical engineering and computer science, he pivoted from optics, machine vision and computational biology research into the messy world of manufacturing data, spending years inside Foxconn where his analytics work reportedly saved a Shenzhen factory around $20 million. In 2022 he raised a $12 million Series A led by NGP Capital to bring conversational, AI-driven decision-making to legacy industries.
Brad Peters is a serial analytics founder who has spent more than two decades trying to put real data science in the hands of people who do not write SQL. He founded Birst, one of the first cloud business intelligence platforms, grew it into a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, and exited to Infor for $580 million in 2017. He is now founder and CEO of Scoop Analytics, a San Francisco startup building an AI 'data analyst' that connects to operational tools, investigates data on its own, and tells the story back to non-technical business users. He earlier helped build the analytics product line at Siebel Systems that became Oracle's OBIEE family, and started his career in Morgan Stanley's M&A practice.
Erin Tavgac is the co-founder and CEO of Redbird, a New York based AI-powered analytics platform that lets non-technical employees run the full analytics pipeline - data prep, wrangling, analysis, reporting and data science - through natural language instead of code. A Stanford-trained ex-McKinsey consultant who spent a decade building data and consumer-insights practices, Tavgac launched the company (originally Cube Analytics) with brother Deren Tavgac, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital. By 2024 Redbird had reframed itself around conversational AI agents and counted eight Fortune 50 brands among its customers.
Metabase is an open source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that lets anyone - not just analysts - ask questions of their data and build dashboards without writing SQL. Founded in 2014 and spun out of the Expa venture studio, it pairs a friendly visual query builder with a full SQL editor, connects to 20+ databases, and offers white-label embedding so software companies can ship customer-facing analytics. With a free self-hosted edition and paid Cloud and Enterprise tiers, Metabase is used by tens of thousands of companies worldwide.
Synergies Intelligent Systems builds JarviX, a no-code, conversational AI analytics platform that lets factory managers and business teams 'talk to their data' without writing code. Founded in 2016 by MIT-trained, ex-Foxconn engineer Dr. Michael Chang, the company brings Industry 4.0-grade augmented analytics, AutoML and digital-twin dashboards to mid-size manufacturers and enterprises across manufacturing, supply chain, finance and retail.
Hex is a San Francisco-based AI analytics platform founded in 2020 by former Palantir employees Barry McCardel, Caitlin Colgrove, and Glen Takahashi. The company builds an integrated workspace where data teams and business users can analyze data, build interactive apps, and share insights using SQL, Python, and natural language — all in one place. With $177M in total funding including a $70M Series C in May 2025, Hex serves over 1,500 organizations including Reddit, Figma, Anthropic, Brex, and the NBA, replacing fragmented tool stacks with a single governed platform powered by AI agents.