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Sisense: one of the hot enterprise startups to keep an eye on in 2017
Exabeam: Rooting out internal hacker spies
VC : Sequoia’s Carl Eschenbach
Funding: $35 million
What it does: This is a security product that watches human behavior on the network to discover who is trying to hack or sabotage it. It can also be used in forensics after an attack.
Why it’s hot: “They have the ability to cut incident investigations down from what would be days or weeks to literally minutes because of
their data science approach to finding the threats. 2017 will be a year where I expect Exabeam to really accelerate growth,” Eschenbach says.
Clari: Artificial intelligence that helps salespeople sell
VC:Sequoia’s Aaref Hilaly
Funding: $26 million
What it does : Clari offers sales analytics and forecasting cloud software.
Why it’s hot: “Clari is at the leading edge of an important trend towards `systems of engagement’, meaning apps that use great design, integrations and machine learning to help people be more productive. A s these apps gather more data, the ability to analyse that data via artificial intelligence improves,” says Hilaly.
WORLD VIEW ENTERPRISES: Sending balloons into the stratosphere
VC : Sequoia’s Aaref Hilaly
Funding: $15.25 million What it does: Send s balloons into the stratosphere to take images and c ol le c t d at a , the kind of work normally done by more expensive satellites. (It also plans to do stratosphere tourism).
Why it’s hot: “An exceptional team, trying something genuinely different. By lowering the cost of getting to and from the stratosphere, it expands existing markets (example, satellite photography) and opens the way to new ones,” Hilaly says.
SISENSE: Big data analytics for business people
VC: Battery Ventures’s Itzik Parnafes Funding: $94 million
What it does: Sisense lets non-technical business manager which analyses big data that comes from a lot of different sources.
Why it’s hot: “Sisense gives users the freedom to ask any question and get meaningful answers from their data quickly and easily.With customers in 50 countries, Sisense is revolutionizing the business analytics market,”Parnafes says.
GLADLY SOFTWARE: Next-generation customer service software
VC: Greylock’s Jer r y Chen
Funding: $27 million What it does: Gladly is next-generation customer service software, built for today’s mobile, social, texting world.
Why it’s hot: “Consumers expect brands they love to recognise them and communicate over their preferred channel.
But legacy tools can’t keep up with the pace of modern communications.
The platform is built on a modern, secure, globally scalable platform with the same tech stacks used by Google, Facebook,” Chen says.
LATTICE DATA: Shining the light on `dark data
VC: GV’s Dave Munichiello
Funding: Undisclosed series A
What it does: Lattice turns massive amounts of `dark’ data like text and images, into `structured’ data, the kind used by a traditional database.
Why it’s hot: “The company has built out a suite of proprietary software on top of Stanford‘s Open Source Deep Dive technology, which was incubated for over six years with $20 million of DARPA funding, to rapidly make sense out of unstructured data,” Munichiello says.
CLOUDISTICS: An operating system for virtual data centres
VC: Bain Capital Ventures’s Ben Nye
Funding: $15.72 million
What it does: Cloudistics offers an operating system that manages datacentre infrastructure, servers, storage, and networking as one big block, making them all work together more efficiently.
Why its hot : “C IO s should be able to run t heir data cent res more cost effectively than public cloud providers, but they are hob bled by separate server, net work and storage silos. The Cloudistics team, with its extensive large-scale .computing expertise, has enabled just this,” Nye says.
