The world won't wait - neither does VANTIQ Real-time AI orchestration for mission-critical systems NTT DATA built Japan's national disaster platform on VANTIQ 100% year-over-year growth, two years running Sense - Reason - Act Founded by the team behind Forte Software The world won't wait - neither does VANTIQ Real-time AI orchestration for mission-critical systems NTT DATA built Japan's national disaster platform on VANTIQ 100% year-over-year growth, two years running Sense - Reason - Act Founded by the team behind Forte Software
Company Dossier · Real-Time AI
VANTIQ logo on navy
Fig. 1 - The wordmark of a company that would rather react than store. Walnut Creek, California.

VANTIQ.

Software that's already moving.

A low-code platform for real-time, event-driven applications - the conductor for agentic AI, edge computing and IoT, built for the moments where seconds count.

Est. 2015 Walnut Creek, CA ~82 people Agentic AI
The Dispatch

A nervous system for the enterprise

Somewhere right now a sensor twitches. A patient's vital slips. A wildfire's heat signature crosses a threshold. A shipment goes dark between two ports. Most enterprise software will learn about these events later - in a report, in a dashboard, in a meeting on Tuesday. VANTIQ's software already knew. It was watching the stream, and it acted before the meeting was scheduled.

That is the whole pitch, and it is a surprisingly stubborn one. Databases were built to remember. Spreadsheets were built to summarize. VANTIQ was built to react. The company calls its platform a master orchestrator for real-time, distributed, event-driven applications - which is a precise way of saying it behaves less like a filing cabinet and more like a nervous system.

"VANTIQ's real-time platform enables contextually relevant and situationally aware applications that sense, analyze and act on data for mission-critical outcomes." - VANTIQ company description

The distinction matters most where it is least forgiving. In disaster response, in defense, in a hospital, the gap between knowing and acting is measured in lives, not quarters. VANTIQ's founders noticed that the software industry had spent forty years getting very good at storage and very mediocre at urgency - and decided to fix the second half.

2015
Founded
~82
Employees
100%
YoY growth x2 yrs
$1B+
Founders' prior exit
The Loop

Three beats: sense, reason, act

Strip away the acronyms and VANTIQ runs on a rhythm anyone can follow. Data arrives. The platform makes sense of it - increasingly with AI agents arguing it out among themselves. Then it does something about it, at the edge or in the cloud, before the window closes.

01 / SENSE

Sense

Ingest streaming data from sensors, devices, IoT and systems as events happen - not after the fact.

02 / REASON

Reason

Apply AI, generative AI and collaborating multi-agent systems to read context and decide what matters.

03 / ACT

Act

Orchestrate a response across people, machines and agents - at the edge, in the cloud, in real time.

What You Can Build

The toolkit

VANTIQ Platform

A low-code environment for real-time, distributed, event-driven applications - so you build the reaction, not the plumbing.

Real-Time AI Orchestration

One conductor for agentic AI, generative AI, multiple models, edge computing and IoT - coordinated into coherent decision flows.

Agentic & Multi-Agent AI

Build, deploy and govern autonomous AI agents that collaborate, decide and trigger actions in mission-critical environments.

Edge + Cloud Deployment

Run across distributed mesh networks - edge device to cloud - with secure multi-tenancy and fault tolerance built in.

In the Field

Where it shows up

VANTIQ rarely wears its own name in public. It tends to live underneath the systems that integrators and enterprises build on top - which is exactly how infrastructure is supposed to behave.

NTT DATA

Built D-Resilio, Japan's national disaster resilience platform, on VANTIQ - and co-developed Wound AI, a GenAI clinical decision-support tool for wound care.

SmartGate

Strategic partnership bringing real-time AI orchestration to leading Korean enterprises.

Daol TS

Expanding real-time, event-driven AI across Korea's enterprise, manufacturing, logistics, public and energy sectors.

Telemedicine Solutions

Co-built Wound AI, a generative-AI clinical decision support platform for wound care.

The Founders

A second act, in real time

Before VANTIQ there was Forte Software, the company Marty Sprinzen co-founded and sold for more than a billion dollars. He could have stopped. Instead he reassembled a crew of engineers he'd worked with for decades and pointed them at the next problem - urgency.

Marty Sprinzen
Co-Founder & CEO
Paul Butterworth
Co-Founder & CTO · ex-Oracle, AmberPoint
Mike Corbisiero
Co-Founder
Latest Updates

The ticker, slowed down

Oct 2025
Global Agentic AI Summit Series culminates in Washington, D.C.
Feb 2025
Announced life-saving real-time agentic AI crisis-response work and major industry recognition.
Jan 2025
Launched the Global Agentic AI Summit; shipped enhancements for GenAI orchestration, mobile integration and low-code AI agents.
Jan 2025
Strategic partnerships with SmartGate and Daol TS to expand real-time AI orchestration across Korea.
2020
Latest disclosed venture round - approximately $27.75M.
Marginalia

Things worth knowing

VANTIQ frames its entire product around one loop: sense, reason, act. Three words, no jargon.

The leadership bench includes a Chief Health Officer (former VHA innovation chief) and a VP of AI in Defence who spent 33 years in the RAF.

Funding came largely from founders, friends and family - with early backing from Sutter Hill and Greylock - rather than a typical VC blitz.

The company prefers to be the infrastructure beneath named systems - which is why you've used it without knowing it.

Watch & Read

Go deeper

Founder talks, product demos and the platform itself.

Find VANTIQ
The Return

Back to the sensor

Return to that twitching sensor, that slipping vital, that wildfire crossing a line. In the old world, each became a row in a table that someone would read eventually. In VANTIQ's world, each becomes an event with a deadline - sensed, reasoned over by a swarm of agents, and answered while it still matters. The wildfire gets a dispatch. The patient gets a clinician. The dark shipment gets re-routed.

It is a quiet kind of ambition. VANTIQ is not trying to be the smartest model or the loudest brand. It is trying to be the layer that turns intelligence into action fast enough to count - the difference between software that files a report and software that picks up the phone. The world, as the company likes to say, won't wait. Their software was built to stop asking it to.

"When seconds can mean the difference between life and death, software has to act in real time - not after the fact." - The VANTIQ premise

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