Provider of software development services

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

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

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

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.

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. 

Cloud-based marketing platform for e-tailers


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

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

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. 

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

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


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. 

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

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.


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



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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Adevinta is an online marketplace for second-hand goods. The company offers pre-owned mobiles, furniture, vehicles, job, real estate, cars, consumer goods, and more.

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.

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

Chime was created with the mission to make financial peace of mind a reality for millions of Americans. We're one of the fastest-growing financial technology companies in the U.S., offering banking services that are helpful, easy, and free—because we want to profit with our members, not from them. Our model doesn’t rely on overdraft, monthly service, minimum balance, or other member fees—it just focuses on delivering member value.

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

Make customers more successful with your product or service with interactive guides that can be embedded anywhere.

Collectors Universe, Inc. is the leading provider of value-added services to the collectible’s markets. We authenticate and grade collectible coins, trading cards, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia through our subsidiaries, which include Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA), Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS), Certified Coin Exchange (CCE), Wata, Collectors Corner, Set Registry, Collectors.com, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated more than 80 million items. We employ over 1,000 people across our Santa Ana, CA headquarters, New Jersey, Seattle, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.

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.

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. 

lacework is a cloud security company. we are changing the future of cloud security with automation and data so our customers can innovate with speed and safety.

early stage deep tech and software infrastructure venture fund

the fastest and easiest way to make professional-quality videos

datafold is the fastest way to validate dbt and sql code during development, deployment, and migrations

Loop is the exchange-first returns platform for scaling Shopify brands.

zippi empowers microentrepeneurs to purchase supplies for their businesses.

Overview	Apache Kafka	Hex
Categories	Data Streaming	Data Workspace/ Collaboration
Stage	Late Stage	Early Stage
Target Segment	Enterprise, Mid size	Mid size
Deployment	On Prem	SaaS
Business Model	Open Source	Commercial
Pricing	Freemium	Contact Sales
Location	US	San Francisco, California
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