Cloud-based customer data platform. It provides an API for developers to integrate and collect customer data and send it to multiple tools for analytics, marketing, data warehousing. It also provides multiple data sources to integrate and collect information like google analytics, HEAP, adobe analytics, flurry, mixpanel, etc. It also provides solutions for data governance.

Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps companies harness first-party customer data.

Facebook is a website which allows users, who sign-up for free profiles, to connect with friends, work colleagues or people they don't know, online. 

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

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.

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

Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012, Meta acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock

Deliveroo is a British online food delivery company founded by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski in 2013 in London, England.

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

Zomato is an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company founded by Deepinder Goyal, Pankaj Chaddah, and Gunjan Patidar in 2008

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


Proposal software that gives you control & insight into the most important stage of your sales process: the close.

Zoom Cloud Meetings is a proprietary video teleconferencing software program developed by Zoom Video Communications.

Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems.

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.

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. 

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

Culture Amp is the leading employee experience platform helping companies take action to improve employee engagement, retention, and performance. Culture Amp is a Culture First certified B Corporation used by 4,000+ customers including Aegon, Airbnb, Go Cardless, KIND Snacks, McDonald’s, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Salesforce and Slack. Started in Melbourne with offices in San Francisco, London, and New York City.

Ritual is a direct-to-consumer health brand that believes it’s crucial to know not just what you’re putting into your body, but why you need it in the first place. They are transparent about their ingredients, where they're sourced from, and have spent years conducting extensive research behind each of the premium nutrient forms they use. Our products are simple, effective, and backed by science. Their mission is to empower people to feel their best by turning healthy habits into a ritual. The have built a team of curious skeptics, world-class scientists, unconventional artists, expert marketers, and analytical strategists that are on a mission to reinvent an entire industry. 

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


Customer.io is an automated messaging platform for tech-savvy marketers who want more control and flexibility to craft and send data-driven emails, push notifications, and SMS messages.



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

Veronica Beard is an apparel & fashion company that provides women's sportswear and shoes.

Provider of customer experience management tools. The platform offers a data onboarding platform for marketing teams and customers for data wrangling. It works by automating importing and exporting data, differentiating product features, and improve customer experiences.

Airtasker is an online and mobile marketplace that connects people and businesses with local community members.

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

Incident response for your whole organisation. Trusted by companies like Loom, Linear, Gocardless, Render and many others.

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.


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. 

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

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.

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.

Mighty Digital is a growth engineering agency that empowers data-informed growth for digital products. We help clients leverage data to acquire, activate, and retain more customers.

Gopuff is the go-to solution for immediate everyday needs. Gopuff delivers thousands of everyday essentials, such as cleaning and home products, over-the-counter medications, baby products, food, drinks and in some markets, alcohol and fresh prepared food, in just minutes from our local micro-fulfillment centers.

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. 

&facts provides brands with consumer insights powered by billions of global consumers that help launch the right products at the right time. The ‘always-on’ platform constantly evaluates the business and market to feed intelligent insights and recommendations. 

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

The Data Activation Platform for B2B marketing and revenue teams. Define your Ideal Customer Profile, discover prospects across your target market, and build customized buyer journeys for every segment you serve.

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.

Wellness platform that helps individuals and companies improve their well-being and performance through sustainable, science-backed solutions.

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. 

building the data layer for your business. 

we deliver actionable customer insights in weeks not months. make critical business decisions faster and with more confidence with a managed data layer from atadataco.


Self-employed entrepreneurs from over 100 industries rely on sevdesk for their invoicing & accounting.

TrovaTrip makes it possible for topic experts, creatives, and entrepreneurs to host trips around the globe with their communities. Travel and learn from yogis, photographers, bloggers, outdoor enthusiasts and more.

online whiteboard and collaboration software

Open-source data integration for the modern data stack

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

trackingplan automatically documents and monitors all the marketing data you are collecting.

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.

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

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.


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. 

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

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

Cloud-based marketing platform for e-tailers


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

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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.

Overview	Segment	Apache Kafka
Categories	Event Tracking, Customer Data Platform(CDP)	Data Streaming
Stage	Late Stage	Late Stage
Target Segment	Enterprise, Mid size	Enterprise, Mid size
Deployment	SaaSOn Prem	On Prem
Business Model	Commercial	Open Source
Pricing	Freemium, Contact Sales	Freemium
Location	San Francisco, US	US
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