Ananth Packkildurai

Andrew Jones

Carmen Rico

Chad Sanderson

Martin Weiss

Matt Turck

Matthew Shump

Sachin Pandey

Sarah Catanzaro

Stratis Viglas

Veronika Durgin

Yves mulkers

Atlan is a modern data collaboration workspace (like Github for engineering or Figma for design). By acting as a virtual hub for data assets ranging from tables and dashboards to models & code, Atlan enables teams to create a single source of truth for all their data assets, and collaborate across the modern data stack through deep integrations with tools like Slack, BI tools, data science tools and more. Atlan has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the inaugural report on DataOps, one of the top 3 companies globally.

Atlan is a modern data workspace that helps data teams collaborate and democratize their enterprise data.

Looker is a data integration and visualization solutions, provider. It offers cloud-based data integration and visualization platform to enterprises. It enables businesses to access data that is connected from multiple different sources. This includes cloud applications such as Salesforce, Zendesk, business planning applications, and web analytics tools. It also provides a custom visualization library and pre-modeled external datasets such as weather and demographics data. It provides solutions to industries including eCommerce, media, healthcare, and gaming among others. Some of its notable clients include Buzzfeed, Intercom, Twilio, and Hubspot, etc.

The Looker Platform for Data delivers insights to user workflows, allowing organizations to extract value from their data. 

Cube is the headless business intelligence platform for accessing data from modern data stores, organizing it into consistent definitions, and delivering it to every application. Cube works with all kinds of data sources and delivers data to any BI tool or data app.

Cube is headless business intelligence for building powerful, fast, and consistent data applications.

Databricks provides a data lakehouse that unifies your data warehousing and AI use cases on a single platform. With Databricks, you can implement a common approach to data governance across all data types and assets, and execute all of your workloads across data engineering, data warehousing, data streaming, data science, and machine learning on a single copy of the data. Built on open source and open standards, with hundreds of active partnerships, Databricks easily integrates with your modern data stack. Additionally, Databricks uses an open standards approach to data sharing to eliminate ecosystem restrictions. Finally, Databricks provides a consistent data platform across clouds to reduce the friction of multicloud environments. Today, Databricks has over 7000 customers, including Amgen, Walmart, Disney, HSBC, Shell, Grab, and Instacart.

Databricks combines the best of data warehouses and data lakes into a lakehouse architecture.

For data-driven companies, Starburst offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform, built on open source Trino. Our platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, and consume data without the need for time-consuming and costly migrations. We believe the lake should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, lower the cost of infrastructure, use the tools best suited to their specific needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Comcast, Grubhub, and Priceline, Starburst helps companies make better decisions faster on all their data.

Starburst is a full-featured data lake analytics platform that activates the data in and around your lake.

Alation provides a data cataloging platform. It automatically builds a catalog of useful data documentation, covering all of the data sources, and allows users to collaborate and work on the data. It processes enterprise unstructured data by centralizing knowledge into a single place using machine learning and human analysts. The search can be made using keywords in plain English. Enables users to access relevant information (including experts, lineage, keys and indexes, relevant queries) and documentation on all tables, across the organization’s data sources. The clients include PepsiCo, Dow, Fox Networks, BMW and others.

Alation data catalog is an exhaustive solution for metadata storage and data querying.

The fastest way to build and deploy data apps. Streamlit is the first app framework built specifically for Machine Learning and Data Science teams.

Streamlit is an open-source app framework for creating and deploying data science applications.

RudderStack provides open-source customer data routing and processing platform. It is an enterprise-grade customer data infrastructure for routing and processing event data from your apps and website to your data warehouse and cloud apps.

Cloud-based platform to sync customer data to 100+ sales, support, and marketing tools. It allows users to sync data from a data warehouse to anywhere using a simple visual interface or SQL. The product is free to start with one data source and one destination tool. Hightouch charges for advanced features and additional destinations.

Hightouch is a Reverse ETL platform that helps you sync your customer data from your data warehouse to your CRM, marketing, and support tools.

Hex makes it easy to collaborate on data projects, from exploration to publishing.
Powerful SQL and Python notebooks with live multiplayer, and interactive data apps anyone can use.

Hex is a collaborative data workspace that makes it easy to go from idea to analysis to sharing.  Work in SQL and Python notebooks, collaborate live, and publish interactive data apps anyone can use.

Provider of cloud-based data integration solutions for analytics teams. The product offered by the company is a cloud middleware that integrates data from various SaaS services and databases into a single data warehouse. It also allows end-users to use their spreadsheets as databases. The features of the product include automated schema migrations, data integration management, etc.

Fivetran fully automated connectors sync data from cloud applications, databases, event logs and more into your data warehouse. 

Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.

Snowflake is the only data platform built for the cloud for all your data and all your users. Mobilize your data to advance your business.

Parabola provides a cloud-based data process automation platform. It enables users to easily configure data processing through a drag and drop user interface and create custom dashboards with transformed run-time data. The product features are modularity for connection to different sources, transform and imports, team collaboration, functions, version control, and automation.

Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.

Avenue keeps everyone alert and on-top of important moments. Head of Ops, Sales, Customer Success, Executives — all coordinated in one tool.

Avenue is a simple way to set up alerts and processes for business operations teams.

Confluent provides a real-time data stream platform on Apache Kafka. The platform offers an open-source technology that acts as a real-time, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable messaging system, enabling companies to move data from isolated systems into a real-time data pipeline where they can act on it. Audi, Tivo, and Euronext are some of its clients.

Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.

Mozart Data is the fastest way to set up scalable, reliable data infrastructure that doesn’t need to be maintained by you. Instead of piecing multiple tools together, get everything you need to set up a modern data stack (including ETL, a Snowflake data warehouse, and data transformation tools) in an hour, get visibility into your data pipelines, and ensure your data is reliable. Spend less time and money on your data infrastructure, reduce your time to insight by 76%, and create a data-driven culture from the start.

Mozart Data’s all-in-one modern data platform empowers anyone to easily centralize, organize, and analyze their data without engineering resources.

Snowplow is a provider of digital analytics for multiple platforms. It identifies users and tracks the way they engage with websites, applications, or IoT. It stores user's behavioral data in a scalable event data warehouse which can be plugged in with any analysis tool to crunch that data including big data toolsets, traditional BI tools, statistical and graphical tools. It enables to join web analytics and other snowplow event data with third-party data sources such as marketing data sets, customer data sets. The clients of the company include weebly, THE ICONIC, Unsplash, etc.

Snowplow is a behavioral data platform, built to empower data teams to capture and operationalize behavioral data at scale.

ThoughtSpot is a search and AI-driven analytics platform that delivers safe, reliable self-service analytics to the modern data stack. ThoughtSpot natively integrates with cloud platforms and scales to billions of rows, making it possible for anyone to ask their own data questions. Users can also embed search, Liveboards and visualizations into data applications using ThoughtSpot Everywhere. Customers include Hulu, Capital One, Mayo Clinic, and more.

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence and big data analytics platform that helps you explore, analyze and share real-time business analytics data easily.

Data Kitchen offers a DataOps platform. The solution enables users to automate and coordinate the people, tools, and environments in any data analytics setup. It performs orchestration, testing, and monitoring to development and deployment of data analytics solutions. The company claims that its solution eliminates errors and reduces cycle time from months to minutes.

The DataKitchen DataOps Platform automates your end-to-end data workflows so cross-functional teams can quickly innovate, test, and deliver the kind of error-free, on-demand insight that leads to one successful business decision after another. 

Debezium is an open source distributed platform for change data capture. Start it up, point it at databases, and apps can start responding to all of the inserts, updates, and deletes that other apps commit to databases. Debezium is durable and fast, so apps can respond quickly and never miss an event, even when things go wrong.

Debezium is an open source distributed platform for change data capture.

Dbt is an analytics engineering workflow tool. The command line based build tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouse and can take ownership of the entire analytics engineering workflow, from writing data transformation code to deployment and documentation. It automates data quality testing, deploys analytics code, and delivers data with documentation.

dbt is a development framework that combines modular SQL with software engineering best practices to make data transformation reliable, fast, and fun.

Quantive Signals is a business observability platform that autonomously monitors your KPIs and intelligently alerts you when, what, and why something unexpected happens.
        With Quantive Signals, you can scale your business operations and mitigate disruption as quickly as possible. Quantive Signals empowers you to
        Bring data from any source into a unified platform
        To automatically monitor data and identify anomalies, identify factors that create unexpected changes, and respond quickly to issues with real-time alerts.

Quantive Signals is a business observability platform that plugs into your existing data stack and automatically detects and diagnoses business performance issues.
        Quantive Signals autonomously monitors your KPIs and intelligently alerts you when, what, and why something unexpected happens.

Immuta provides products for a secure and audited access to data across the enterprise through policy driven security model. Immuta's BoData provides secure fine grained and dynamic access control to disparate data silos through standard interfaces like File system, map-reduce and SQL while auditing data queries. Other product Bakula executes code in response to a real-time trigger in enterprise like upload of a file, database operation, website crawling etc. to ensure authorized access by users and analytics based on rules set. Delivers real time reporting capability to achieve data governance and compliance through tracking every action against enterprise data.

Immuta provides a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security and privacy compliance.

Tecton provides a data platform for machine learning models. Allows users to build models with features like batch, streaming & real-time data and deploy features in production. Also provides solutions to build training data sets and monitor production features for detecting breakages & drift.

Tecton provides an enterprise-ready feature store to make world-class machine learning accessible to every company. 

June is a cloud-based product analytics tool. The features of the product include actionable insights and custom-built reports, integrations, one-click data connection, user retention, product, and event tracking, etc. It also provides integration over GitDuck, Quorum, assemble, etc.

June is a lightweight product analytics for B2B SaaS. Get actionable insights and custom-built reports in seconds, not hours.

Soda is a data monitoring and administration solutions provider. The features of the product include identification and prioritization of data issues, automatic threat identification, business data management, collaboration, deployments, etc. It also provides data validation & testing, data issue management, etc.

Soda’s data quality solution allows teams to test, prevent, and collaboratively resolve data issues.

Astronomer is an open-source data integration platform that helps data engineers to collaboratively contribute to the code which can be used by data scientists/engineers for integrating web applications. It is a hosted data pipeline service that can be used to connect various data source like oracle, mysql, salesforce etc to destinations like cloud platform amazon redshift, bi tools, google analytics and website analytics tools like kissmetrics. The company also provides implementation services to the companies with no data engineer.

Astronomer helps organizations adopt Apache Airflow®, the leading open-source data workflow orchestration platform that helps organizations get their data in motion.

Pocus is the first Product-Led Sales platform that turns product data into revenue. Equip sales teams with the data they need to convert their best users into high-value customers all without ongoing engineering support.
Pocus brings together product usage, customer fit, and buying intent data into one view, with insights tailored to your business.


Pocus identifies top enterprise opportunities and surfaces insights that help sales reps close deals faster

Equals is building the 3rd generation spreadsheet: Starting with live, native, versioned data connections. It makes the data in your spreadsheet live and version controlled. Every data pull is versioned and traceable back to its source. You can restore any data pull with one click.

Equals is a next generation spreadsheet with built in connections to any data warehouse, modern versioning, and collaboration.

Tonic provides AI-based solutions for creating safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development. It provides a synthetic data platform that equips developers with the data they need to build products. It helps teams in shortening development cycles, eliminating data pipeline overhead, and offers data privacy. It also preserves all the characteristics of the production data, including constraints, statistical correlations, distributions, and interdependencies. It provides solutions for industries such as healthcare, financial services, logistics, edtech, and e-commerce. The clients of the company include ebay, Rollbar, Alegeus, etc.

Tonic automatically creates mock data that preserves key characteristics of secure datasets so that developers, data scientists, and salespeople can work conveniently without breaching privacy.

MDS Rocketship Awards

MDS Rocketships - 2023

May

Atlan

Looker

Cube

Databricks

Starburst

Alation

Streamlit

Rudderstac..

Hightouch

Hex

Fivetran

Snowflake

Parabola

Avenue

Confluent

Mozart Dat..

Snowplow

ThoughtSpo..

Data Kitch..

Debezium

dbt

Quantive S..

Immuta

Tecton

June

Soda

Astronomer

Pocus

Equals

Tonic ai

May 30, 2023

Tonic ai

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Ananth Packkildurai

Andrew Jones

Carmen Rico

Chad Sanderson

Martin Weiss

Matt Turck

Matthew Shump

Sachin Pandey

Sarah Catanzaro

Stratis Viglas

Veronika Durgin

Yves mulkers

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