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AtScale Refused to Kill Excel. Now Its Semantic Layer Has to Keep AI Honest.
The Boston software company spent a decade making old-school BI behave on new-school data. Its next customer is an AI agent - and the same boring layer may be what keeps the answers useful.
Pragmatic Works Sold the Software, Sold the Consulting - and Kept the Classroom
Brian Knight built three businesses under one roof, sold two of them, and discovered the least glamorous piece was the one he wanted to keep. Today Pragmatic Works turns Microsoft's endless release cycle into a training flywheel anyone can borrow.
DataCamp
DataCamp is an online learning platform that teaches data and AI skills through short, browser-based interactive exercises. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, it offers 700+ courses in Python, R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, and generative AI, along with hands-on projects, skill assessments, and industry certifications. The company serves both individual learners and enterprises, having grown to more than 10 million learners and thousands of business customers who use it to close data and AI skills gaps.
Cleartelligence
Cleartelligence is a Newton, Massachusetts-based data and AI consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise organizations turn complex, siloed data into clear, usable intelligence. Founded in 2011, it delivers analytics and visualization, data engineering and architecture, artificial intelligence, and data strategy advisory across finance, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, technology, and the public sector. Backed by private equity firm Align Capital Partners since 2022, the firm has grown through acquisitions of Winter Sun and Bardess Group and opened a delivery center in Hyderabad, India, in 2025.
Fresche Solutions
Fresche Solutions is a Montreal-based enterprise software and services company that helps organizations manage, maintain, and modernize their IBM i (AS/400) and Microsoft systems. With more than 40 years of IBM i heritage, Fresche combines proprietary modernization tools such as X-Analysis, Presto, and Newlook with managed services, cloud hosting, and AI-driven data analytics to help legacy-dependent businesses move to modern web UIs, contemporary languages, and cloud platforms without disrupting operations.
Grasp Technologies
Grasp Technologies is a travel-data company founded in 1996 that consolidates, cleans and normalizes fragmented booking, expense and payment data for travel management companies, travel agencies and corporate travel programs. Its platform pairs a data-unification engine (graspDATA), Power BI-driven business intelligence (graspANALYTICS) and a virtual-card payment product (graspPAY) that connects to more than 90 banks. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, the company says it powers over $40 billion in transactions and serves customers in more than 60 countries.
Enki
Enki is a San Francisco-based edtech company building an AI-powered coaching platform that helps professionals and teams learn coding, data, and no-code tools faster. Founded in 2019 by Kirill Makharinsky and Bruno Marnette, Enki pairs on-demand 1:1 AI coaching with structured, role-specific exercises for tools like SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau, Looker, and Power BI. It began as a mobile app that grew to millions of users and 20,000+ five-star reviews, then pivoted toward enterprise upskilling, offering companies a way to raise data literacy and tool adoption across their workforce.