Apache Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to author and manage data pipelines. Airflow uses workflows made of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks.

Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows. 

Lyft, Inc. develops, markets, and operates a mobile app, offering vehicles for hire, motorized scooters, a bicycle-sharing system, and food delivery. The company is based in San Francisco, California and operates in 644 cities in the United States and 12 cities in Canada

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders

Airbnb is the largest short term rental booking website

Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States

Slack is a proprietary business communication platform developed by American software company Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce from 2021. Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. 

Meta-search platform for vacation rentals

Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. Renaissance solutions are used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Fetch Rewards is a discount App for grocery shopping. The platform offers a cashback and gift card earning app that rewards purchases. The users can snap pictures of the receipts or submit e-receipts using the receipt scanner and earn the gift cards and reward points. The users can redeem the rewards on popular stores, including Target, Amazon, Walmart, and more. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms

QuintoAndar is an online brokerage firm for rental properties. The platform enables property seekers to specify a location and obtain a list of registered properties. Once a property is shortlisted user can schedule visits and book it via the platform. For the property owners, the company provides assistance in renting the property from taking professional photographs to closing the deal. 

Betterment is an online investment company that offers investing and retirement solutions for their current clients and clients-to-be.


Spin is an app-based platform offering electric kick-scooter sharing services. Users can search for a nearby available scooter and book it after providing relevant details. Using the app, users can lock/unlock the scooters (by scanning their respective QR) and make online payments. It offers features like variant payment options, real-time tracking, etc. At the end of the ride, users can park the vehicle of their preference. The mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices

Netlify is a web development cloud for building, deploying and scaling modern web applications. By integrating the ecosystem of Javascript frameworks, developer tools, and APIs into powerful workflows, Netlify makes it simple for teams of any size to build all their web projects, from e-commerce storefronts to documentation sites to highly-dynamic SaaS applications.

SensorData is a company dedicated to innovation and technology for companies in the forest, road and agriculture sectors. 

AXS has your ticket to live concerts, sports and entertainment. AXS.com connects fans with hot tickets to top live music concerts, sports, arts, family, circus events shows and festivals by top promoters like Golden-voice and AEG Live at top venues across the world like the O2, LA Live, Nokia Theatre, Staples Center and Sprint Center

Reforge offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering.


Pollen is an online event marketplace provider for local events. Enable users to view events such as travel, festivals, nightlife, and experiences. It offers features such as membership-based payment plans, member support, and ticketing platform collaboration.

Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.


Updater makes moving easier for the 17 million American households that relocate every year. With Updater, users seamlessly forward mail, connect TV and internet, compare and book moving companies, transfer utilities, update accounts and records, and much more. Updater’s real estate products save their clients hours with a branded and personalized Updater moving experience.


Mattermost is the leading open source collaboration platform with a thriving community.

Cloud-based marketing platform for e-tailers


Ebury is a financial services company, specialising in international cash management solutions including cross-border payments, FX risk management, and business lending. 

DataRobot is the AI Cloud leader, delivering a unified platform for all users, all data types, and all environments to accelerate delivery of AI to production.

The healthiest, most effective and innovative natural cosmetics for your skin and hair, creating a unique experience for you and our planet.


GoCanvas is a mobile platform that makes it simple for any business to automate how work is done, replacing outdated processes and expensive paperwork. The GoCanvas App works on all smartphones and tablets, helping companies easily collect information across their organization, share it instantly with others, and gain real-time insights into their business operations.

Babylon aims to provide accessible, affordable healthcare by combining AI with doctors.


Lucid is a visual collaboration suite that helps teams see and build the future. Virtual whiteboarding, intelligent diagramming, and cloud visualization come together to empower organizations to take plans from initial ideas all the way to successful delivery. Together, they are utilized in over 180 countries by millions of users. Ninety-six percent of the Fortune 500 use Lucidchart, and customers include Google, GE, NBC Universal and T-Mobile. Lucid’s partners include industry leaders such as Google, Atlassian, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, and Microsoft. 

Delivery Hero is a network of online food ordering sites with over 100 restaurant partners worldwide.


Vacasa is North America’s leading vacation rental management platform. They opened their doors in 2009 with a vision to drive unbeatable revenue for their homeowners and unforgettable experiences for their guests. Today, they provide full-service care for more than 30,000 vacation homes in some of the most desirable vacation destinations across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Belize.


A business-to-business organization, more than 3.2 million customers rely on  Grainger for products in categories such as safety, material handling, and metalworking, along with services like inventory management and technical support.


Insurify is the smart, virtual insurance platform for your auto, home, and life insurance needs. They are powered by a robust technology suite that provides fast, accurate, and personalized recommendations and quotes to help you make confident decisions about your insurance coverage and carrier

Medically Home's hospital-at-home program enables health systems to safely admit patients to their own homes rather than the hospital for acute and restorative care.

Rush Street Interactive Develop Market-Proven Online, Social, and Land-based Gaming Products Exclusively for Regulated Markets across the Americas.

Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Devoted Health mission is to dramatically improve the health and well-being of older Americans by caring for each and every person like they are family.

HubSpot develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online.

LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers.

Hotjar equips product teams with Product Experience Insights, showing them how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so those teams can deliver real value. Discover product opportunities, consolidate qual and quant, and communicate user needs. 

Getsales is a digital marketing agency that offers SEO, google ads, link building and online campaign services.

SmileDirectClub is an oral care company that exists to help more people realize the life-changing potential of their smiles.

K Health is a digital healthcare company on a mission to use the power of shared medical knowledge to get everyone access to better, more affordable healthcare—whenever, wherever they need it, 24/7, right from your phone. Their platform consolidates the knowledge of thousands of doctors and billions of clinical data insights to get people trusted information and treatment. They also offer, through affiliated professional entities, the option to chat with a clinician without insurance for less than a copay. 

SellerX buys and builds promising smaller businesses that sell via Amazon’s platform. Their goal is to optimize and grow the brands they acquire post-acquisition.

Outdoor Voices is an active lifestyle brand that makes technical apparel for recreation.

Custom Ink offer a better way to design and order custom t-shirts for your group, company or event.

X-Team has provided the world's leading brands with high-performing, on-demand teams of developers. X-team has build a world where developers can have access to an environment of growth and incredible opportunities regardless of where they live.


Collibra is a data intelligence solution provider. It offers a cloud-based platform that connects IT and the business to build a data-based culture for the digital enterprise. It helps IT organizations to reduce complexity, risk, and costs. Collibra was a spin-off from STARLab at the Free University of Brussels. The Data Governance Center covers all key data governance and stewardship activities including Master data management, data quality, metadata management.

Dotz Inc. is a robust technology company with extensive consumer knowledge, which brings together technology, data, loyalty, marketplace and techfin in its business model, being the pioneer company in the loyalty market in Brazil through the Dotz program.

Affirm modern technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. They focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products.


Flowcode is an offline to online company, building direct connections for brands and consumers. By unifying data-driven design with the latest in QR technology, Flowcode enables contactless connection with speed, security and ease.

Convoy offers an app-based marketplace connecting truckers. The platform connects carriers and shippers for on-demand freight services. Its features include instant quotations and online booking, automated loading suggestions, bidding, online payments, viewing of shippers, and facility details on loads. The app is available on the Android & iOS platforms. Its clients include Unilever, P&G, and Waiakea, and more.

The end-to-end video engagement platform enabling organizations to create meetings and webinars at scale.

Zapier is on a mission to make automation incredibly easy and accessible to everyone at work. With Zapier, you can integrate apps like Salesforce, Intuit, Google, and Dropbox, to move data between them automatically, so you can focus on your most important work.

Too Good To Go is the world's largest B2C marketplace for surplus food, and restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, bakeries, canteens and wholesalers in 17 countries are saving food here every day.

Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.

Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. 

Bol.com is an online retailer involved in providing books, entertainment, electronic devices, and toys for its clients

Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments.

Envoy is transforming modern workplaces with products that make office life easier and work more meaningful. Envoy’s workplace platform has redefined how offices welcome visitors, keep employees safe, book desks and conference rooms, and manage deliveries in over 14,000 locations around the globe while building products for a new era of workplace experience.

Stride Funding is an outcomes-driven company that provides Income Share Agreements to supplement student loans.

Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.

EZ Texting is a SaaS company that delivers the fastest, easiest, and most reliable way to connect. It has served over 165,000 customers and is one of the top SMS platforms for business users, setting the standard for business texting. Its messaging solutions allow businesses to quickly and effectively reach and engage their mobile audiences.

We're a leading tech company that operates subscription-based consumer products in the self-help and wellness market.

Udemy provides a curated collection of business and technical courses that help companies, governments, nonprofits, and individuals go further by placing learning at the center of their strategies. Through their global marketplace platform, it provides the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential.

PhotoBox is Europe's leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.


Knotch is a SaaS platform that helps brands connect their content to desired business outcomes. It's data-driven approach to content research, holistic data collection, analysis, and optimization is empowering the world’s most notable brands to fully understand their content. 

Pluralsight provides an online platform for programming courses. The products include assessments, analytics, role customization, professional services, and more. 

Wallbox is a global company, offering a complete portfolio of charging and energy management solutions for residential, semi-public, and public use in more than 80 countries.

Twilio powers the future of business communications. Enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software.



ManyPets is a pet insurance company that takes care of your pet’s health 

Lotum is a game studio based in Germany. Their games are used by millions of users every day.

The world's leading media platform for football

We believe people deserve peace of mind. CLARK makes it easy to get properly insured.

Databand.ai built the industry's first proactive data observability platform that isolates data errors as early as data integration and triages issues to alert relevant stakeholders before there's a crisis

The internet’s source of freely-usable images

Checkr powers people infrastructure for the future of work. With artificial intelligence and machine learning, our solutions make background checks faster, easier, and more compliant.

Contentful helps digital teams assemble content and deliver experiences, faster. Open and flexible content platform adapts to how digital builders work to meet business goals through easy customization and deep integration with any tech stack. Digital teams can reuse and automate content across devices and channels, so they can worry less about content maintenance and more about their customers.

branch energy is an energy supplier that uses modern data science and engineering tools to lower our customer bills, all with 100% renewable energy and while planting many trees.

We help companies generate value and build products with big data and AI. We bring innovation from pioneers of Big Data and AI to other aspiring companies.
To enable them solve data based use cases we build data & ML platforms with them.

a quanto ajuda a sua empresa a tomar decisões mais precisas com base nos dados do open finance.


by aliens is a mobile game publisher for independent third-party developers based in portugal

improving the python data ecosystem with managed saas solutions to help with the deployment, production and collaboration on data projects using python

catch, the trusted place where australians start their shopping journey

justos builds insurance products that are fairer, smarter, and more human. we offer our customers products that reward safe behavior, are easy to understand, and that get paid out faster when things don't go according to plan. we are using data science, design, and brand to disrupt a multi-billion dollar insurance industry, similar to what has been happening in retail banking over the last 10 years. ultimately, we are building a safe and fairer world. 

CircleUp is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs with the funding and support that they need to thrive. having identified over a hundred successful brands, we use our helio business intelligence platform to increase the speed, quality and objectivity of decision-making in the private company landscape through a unique application of data and machine learning technology.

digital insurance for travel, health and auto

hubla is a technology company leading passion economy in brazil. launched in 2020, it allows creators to run their own paid community using a smart and fast management platform. 

infoprice is a technology and data company focused on pricing and dynamic pricing for retail

Craft is a supplier intelligence company helping organizations accelerate data-informed business decisions. our unique, proprietary data platform enables supply chain and procurement professionals to discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers and create stronger supply chain resilience by tracking thousands of real-time signals across millions of companies globally. the company provides comprehensive, complete supplier data and intuitive software tools delivering best-in-class monitoring and insight into global supply chains and market intelligence as well as facilitating better and more proactive decisions that minimize disruptions and risk.

BukuWarung is a startup focused on building bookkeeping, digital payments, and e-commerce solutions for MSMEs in Indonesia.

Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the entire sports ecosystem.  We operate more than 300 online and offline stores including e-commerce business with all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and over 300+ collegiate and professional team properties.

apac leading news publisher with the mission to lead the global conversation about china

JMAN Group is a technology-enabled management consultancy that works across a large number of sectors, with a particular focus on the Private Equity & Investor communities. They engage with many different companies and types of organisations – from big to small, established to start-up, large-cap to high-growth funds. In so doing, JMAN Group focuses on providing simple and actionable solutions, however complex the problem.

Our purpose is to transform the paths of people and businesses, making growth easier with intelligence.

🧙 A modern replacement for airflow. Open-source data pipeline tool for transforming and integrating data.

gamechanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in new york city, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today

data science consultancy in south east asia building ai & data platforms to solve high impact problems

World's largest Beauty company, inventing the future of Beauty while transforming to #1 BeautyTech company of the future

dashlane's mission is to make security simple for millions of organizations and their people. we empower businesses of every size to protect company and employee data while helping everyone easily log in to the accounts they need—anytime, anywhere. over 17 million users and 20,000 businesses in 180 countries use dashlane for a faster, simpler, and more secure internet.

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Apache Kafka is a distributed commit log for fast, fault-tolerant communication between producers and consumers using message based topics.

Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company.

Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards

Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participating retailers with the shopping being done by a personal shopper.

LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is mainly used for professional networking, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world's largest music streaming service provider

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American technology company. Its services include ride-hailing, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation, and, through a partnership with Lime, electric bicycle and motorized scooter rental.

Swiggy is India's largest online food ordering and delivery platform, founded in July 2014. Swiggy is based in Bangalore, India, and as of March 2019, was operating in 100 Indian cities. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries under the name Swiggy Stores

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top content platform and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. 

Simply Business is a business insurance broker that offers tailored business insurance quotes to its clients.


1mg is an online platform that provides medical diagnostics, consultation, lab tests, and general healthcare.

ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. Its technology works 100-1000x faster than traditional database management systems, and processes hundreds of millions to over a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per server per second. With a widespread user base around the globe, the technology has received praise for its reliability, ease of use, and fault tolerance. 

blablacar is the world’s leading community-based travel network enabling over 100 million members to share a ride across 22 markets.

Automatad, inc. is a digital media products co. that provides a suite of programmatic monetization solutions that drives efficiency and superior monetization at scale. using our platform digital publishers can create, monetize, and optimize for the best ad experience. 

PingCAP is the company behind TiDB, an open-source, distributed, NewSQL database that supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

a one-stop data solution to collect, store, analyze & activate big data

chongtechnologies "data driven company by design" is an engineering & data science & artificial intelligence consultancy. we started in 2019 as a small group of people united by a broad vision of transforming the data industry, which empowers companies to transform data into information for decision making and improve the performance of their business and thus acquire competitive strategic advantages in relation to competition.

in addition, we position ourselves as an integrator of solutions and services capable of supporting the entire data driven journey of companies through consulting services and strategic partnerships with the main products on the market. in this way, we are able to support our customers from infrastructure, through culture to value delivery through advanced analytics.

we streamline the way companies manage, analyze and exchange high volumes of information/events, in real-time, providing data from multiple sources to countless destinations at the right time.

large companies are already using real-time data streaming to boost their business. what is the path you plan to take? the one about digital transformation, right? come with us .

Lyska is a professional service provider for Data integration & -management. We're building and running centralized modern data management systems for Commerce SMBs, mostly in the German-speaking area.

ready to turn your real-time data into actions?

timeplus is a high-performance converged platform that unifies streaming and historical data processing to empower developers to build powerful and reliable streaming analytics applications, at speed and scale, anywhere. 

metarouter is the leading server-side data integration platform. metarouter is built for performance, compliance, and control.

The Stackable Data Platform is designed with openness and flexibility in mind. It provides you with a curated selection of the best open source data apps like Apache Kafka®, Apache Druid, Trino and Apache Spark™. Stackable is your modern, open source data tool distribution enabling you to build your ideal data stack.

Overview	Airflow	Apache Kafka
Categories	Workflow Orchestration	Data Streaming
Stage	Early Stage	Late Stage
Target Segment	Enterprise, Mid size	Enterprise, Mid size
Deployment	SaaS	On Prem
Business Model	Open Source	Open Source
Pricing	Not Available	Freemium
Location	US	US
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