AI and Big Data Venture Capital Funding
The impact of AI is being seen across all industries and is fundamentally changing how businesses operate. The market is expanding rapidly, with spending on AI expected to reach $97.9 billion in 2023. Sierra Ventures is an early-stage VC firm passionate about funding the next great artificial intelligence and machine learning startups. Since 2020, we have also made specific investments in Generative AI startups and hosted events educating our team, founder, and CXO board about GenAI. To learn more about our Generative AI investments, click here.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
10Web is an automated WordPress platform powered by Google Cloud allowing for AI to take over the burden of manual
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Acquired by Google
Adometry is redefining marketing analytics by combining and interpreting previously silo-ed sources of big data to generate actions that improve return on advertising spend and increase sales.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Agent IQ’s mission is to make sure digital banking stays personal. For years, financial institutions have shifted their focus toward automation and self-service.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Applitools is an AI-based SaaS Visual Application Testing and Monitoring Solution. Their technology validates all visual aspects of any Web, Mobile and Native app in a fully automated way.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Built on Kubernetes, Astronomer makes it easy to run, monitor, and scale Apache Airflow clusters.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Acquired by VMware.
Bitfusion provides software that makes managing and using Deep Learning and AI infrastructure easy, elastic, and efficient. It provides a GPU virtualization and application management platform that accelerates applications and training time and makes it easy to manage production GPU clusters.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Calyptia simplifies your observability efforts by removing all the technical and operational hurdles so you can focus on the actionable insights gleaned from your observability pipeline.
Calyptia was acquired by Chronosphere.
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TEAM MEMBER: Tim Guleri
Cimulate delivers the first-ever Customer-GPT. Leverage Generative AI to optimize each click of the customer journey. Increase conversion by delivering shopping experiences that truly understand customer intent.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
DeepHow is an AI-powered, video-centric platform for skilled workforce training. DeepHow bridges the gap between process documentation and skills management and up-skilling, helping enterprise organizations meet future workforce readiness goals.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Acquired by ESW Capital
DNN has developed the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Software to make diseases like cancer non-lethal within our lifetime.
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NYSE: ESTC
Elastic search is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. As the heart of the Elastic Stack, it centrally stores your data so you can discover the expected and uncover the unexpected.
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TEAM MEMBER: Tim Guleri
Eudia is transforming the role of legal departments in Fortune 500 companies with its Augmented Intelligence Platform. By combining the power of a best-in-class AI platform with expert humans-in-the-loop, Eudia eliminates routine work, illuminates previously unseen insights, and empowers legal teams to deliver measurable business value.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Acquired by Xilinx
Falcon Computing provides seamless and scalable acceleration solutions to big-data applications. It provides an automated compilation tool, runtime management tool, and acceleration libraries to enable scale-able and seamless integration into existing data center infrastructures, with focus on FPGA-based acceleration.
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TEAM MEMBER: Tim Guleri
Flarion accelerates the performance of distributed data engines like Spark, Ray, and Hadoop with up to 3× faster processing, 60% cost reduction, and seamless 5-minute setup.
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TEAM MEMBER: Tim Guleri
Gitar automates code maintenance, enabling your team to focus on innovation by continuously modernizing inefficient and risky legacy code while using your existing DevOps tools and policies.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets.
Gemini acquired Sierra company Omniex.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Using cutting-edge AI, Genie’s dashboards and APIs help investors make faster and smarter investment decisions, without the need to hire a whole quant team.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Craft Winning RFP & Sales Questionnaire Responses with AI Agents.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
At Invisible AI our goal is to create a digital tool to error-proof your manufacturing. Invisible AI's computer vision platform monitors body posture and ergonomics to give operators real-time feedback. We help ensure processes are done correctly and safely, every time.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Krisp is an AI-powered noise cancelling app that removes background noise and echo during online calls in real time.
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Acquired by Red Hat
Makara enables organizations to provision, deploy, manage, monitor and scale their Java and PHP applications on both public and private clouds. Makara tools allow users to easily undertake application scaling, rightsizing, rollback and monitoring tasks of running apps.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Mantle is a next generation platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Leverages generative AI, machine learning and audio tech to make voice chat safe.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Pantomath is a data pipeline observability and traceability platform for automating data operations. It continuously monitors datasets and jobs across the enterprise data ecosystem providing context to complex data pipelines by creating automated cross-platform technical pipeline lineage. Whether it's data quality incidents or job-related operational incidents, Pantomath's ML-driven platform allows customers to detect data reliability issues through real-time alerts, troubleshoot them with end-to-end cross-platform technical lineage and aggregated logs, identify root-cause instantly, and resolve issues quickly with automated impact analysis.
Acquired by Sisense
Periscope Data is the most powerful, flexible analytics platform for data professionals and business users.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Talent Relationship Marketing and the Phenom TRM Cloud Platform connects the billions of people around the world looking for their dream job with the great companies eager to make their next phenomenal hire. Phenom People is redefining what it means to search for a job and recruit top talent.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Podcastle is the easiest way to create your podcast. It's a web-based platform that enables podcasters and other creators to record, edit, enhance, transcribe, and export their content with unmatched simplicity.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Polymer is Business Intelligence (BI) without the complicated setup and steep learning curves. Create visualizations, build dashboards, and present your data like a pro — in minutes.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Make quantum technology useful. We deliver infrastructure software to power the future of quantum computing and sensing with quantum control.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Qualiti uses AI to test any software product with no human input.
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Acquired by Course Hero
Generative AI writing tool AI that reconstructs its user's writing to be more clear and concise.
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TEAM MEMBER: Tim Guleri
Siena is an autonomous customer service platform designed for commerce. Combine the best of human empathy and AI to transform your customer experience.
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Sisense embeds analytics seamlessly into any workflow. From retail to life sciences to manufacturing, our solutions power customer experiences by increasing user adoption and supporting smart, quick business moves.
Sisense acquired Sierra company, Periscope Data.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
The world’s first support experience platform that enables companies to understand and act on the voice of the customer.
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TEAM MEMBER: BEN YU
Acquired by Salesforce.com
Tempo AI leveraged years of SRI International’s artificial intelligence research and semantic technology to create Tempo Smart Calendar, a breakthrough mobile productivity application.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
Acquired by ARM (Owned by Softbank)
Treasure Data leverages the power of big data to transform business. The company’s vision is to become the cloud analytics hub for businesses to transform big data into immediate value.
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TEAM MEMBER: TIM GULERI
CFO-as-a-Service Platform using deep AI to consolidate all finance-related data into real-time reporting.
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TEAM MEMBER: Tim Guleri
Business leaders want to arm and equip their teams with the power of Generative AI. But building production-ready Gen AI apps requires a team of experts, can take months or longer, and can still result in hit-or-miss outcomes.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Acquired by CDPQ
Wizeline is product lifecycle software powered by customer intelligence. Their solutions are designed for companies that want to apply a data-driven, customer-focused approach to developing products.
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
AI platform enabling companies to interact with customers in conversational commerce on popular messaging apps.
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Acquired by Truist Bank
Realize the power of your data with Zaloni Arena Data Governance Platform.
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NYSE: ZETA
Cloud-based marketing technology that empowers brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers.
Zeta acquired Sierra company Boomtrain
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Zimperium is focused on shaping the future of mobile security by setting new standards.
Liberty Strategic Capital acquired Zimperium for Approximately $525 Million
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TEAM MEMBER: MARK FERNANDES
Builds AI teammates so that data and analytics engineers can work autonomously for them.
Generative AI in the Enterprise
As the buzz around generative AI increased, many of our CXO advisory board members questioned how Generative AI could be leveraged in an enterprise capacity. Learn more about our recent event and how enterprises can leverage Generative AI today.