DJ Patil

Datalogz Secures $5 Million Funding Led by GreatPoint Ventures, Unveiling Their Groundbreaking Solution to End Business Intelligence (BI) Sprawl Across Fortune 500 Enterprises

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

The strategic investment propels Datalogz’s mission to end business intelligence (BI) sprawl at every data-mature company.

Key Points: 
  • The strategic investment propels Datalogz’s mission to end business intelligence (BI) sprawl at every data-mature company.
  • Now, with increased resources, proven success, and top talent, the company is well-positioned to support every data-mature Fortune 500 company.
  • About 70% of companies have three or more business intelligence platforms, such as Power BI, Looker, Qlik, or Tableau.
  • GreatPoint Ventures , the lead investor in this round, is renowned for its strategic investments in early-stage companies with groundbreaking potential.

Data Champions award winners announced at DataDriven 2023, recognizing innovation and trailblazers in the data space

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Monday, November 20, 2023

“In the fast-paced digital landscape, data is not just a valuable asset -- it's the force behind business growth, risk management, and finding efficiencies,” said Manish Sood, CEO, Chair, and Founder of Reltio. “This year, it was our honor to recognize many Reltio customers and partners who are driving innovation, fueling transformation initiatives, and delivering on business outcomes for their customers, employees and their businesses. We were also pleased to recognize a female trailblazer and pioneer for leadership in the data community.”

Key Points: 
  • The role of data leaders and data champions in catalyzing business acceleration was a major theme at the DataDriven23 ™ conference in October.
  • Among the event’s highlights was an awards ceremony celebrating Data Champions and the conference’s first-ever DataDriven Women in Data Leadership Award.
  • The award winners are:
    Eaton: Business Transformation Award.
  • The first-ever DataDriven Women in Data Leadership Award was presented to Vivian Wu from AbbVie.

DataDriven23 Set for October 3-5 in Dallas with DJ Patil as Keynote

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Registration is now open for DataDriven23, a modern data management industry event set for this October in Dallas.

Key Points: 
  • Registration is now open for DataDriven23, a modern data management industry event set for this October in Dallas.
  • Keynote speakers include DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist from 2015 to 2017.
  • Appointed by President Obama, Mr. Patil was tasked with making the largest organization in history—the U.S. Federal Government—a data-driven enterprise.
  • DataDriven23, October 3 – October 5, 2023; Dallas, Texas -- Renaissance Dallas Hotel
    Session speakers represent a diverse range of industries and enterprises including AbbVie, Liberty Mutual, Pfizer, Shiseido, HP, Google, the Raddison Hotel Group and others.

Bito Launches With $3.2 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Personalized Software Development and Innovation With Artificial Intelligence Powered by ChatGPT

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bito is the first technology solution to provide customized results from code generation to testing to code documentation to code search, learning from a user’s own codebase.

Key Points: 
  • Bito is the first technology solution to provide customized results from code generation to testing to code documentation to code search, learning from a user’s own codebase.
  • Bito’s CEO, Amar Goel, is the former CEO and founder of PubMatic, the leading Nasdaq-traded cloud infrastructure platform enabling real-time programmatic advertising transactions.
  • Bito AI is a general-purpose AI assistant that can answer any developer question, generate source code from natural language prompts, and give feedback on existing code.
  • Bito’s users tend to use the platform nearly 200 times per month, and in surveys report that Bito makes them 31% more productive.

Fivetran Hosts Third Annual Modern Data Stack Conference in San Francisco on April 4-5 2023

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Fivetran , the global leader in automated data movement, announced today that the third annual Modern Data Stack Conference will be held April 4-5, 2023 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.

Key Points: 
  • Fivetran , the global leader in automated data movement, announced today that the third annual Modern Data Stack Conference will be held April 4-5, 2023 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.
  • This year, the Modern Data Stack Conference expands to an in-person event that will convene hundreds of data analysts, data engineers and experienced data professionals for a mixture of informative sessions, hands-on learning and networking opportunities.
  • “We’ve been very pleased with the success of our previous virtual Modern Data Stack conferences.
  • It’s a perfect forum to learn first-hand about data industry innovations and best practices that enterprises are deploying to make data-driven decisions.”
    Knitting Your Own Data Fabric: Real Possibility or Impossible Fantasy
    The Future of the Supply Chain: How the Modern Data Stack is Transforming Logistics
    Sponsors of the 2023 Modern Data Stack Conference include: Databricks, Snowflake, dbt Labs, Alation, Coalesce, Hightouch, Monte Carlo, Sigma and more.

Popular Open Source GraphQL Company Dgraph Secures $6M in Seed Round with New Leadership

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO , July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dgraph, the company behind the most popular open source Graph database, announced a $6 million seed re-financing round led by Venrock and Uncorrelated Ventures, with participation from Abstract Ventures, HackVC, SaxeCap, and Liquid2 Ventures. World-class executives also joined the round, including DJ Patil, former US Chief Data Scientist; Michael Callahan, founder of Awake Security; Ry Walker, founder of Astronomer; Ganesh Srinivasan, Chief Product Officer at Confluent; Chris Riccomini; and JP Patil, Head of Data at Included Health. 

Key Points: 
  • Since its initial open source release in 2016, Dgraph has become the most popular open source Graph database on GitHub and the youngest company to be named in Forrester's Graph Data Platform landscape.
  • The team is also focused on a renewed stewardship to the Dgraph community and will introduce a new set of features to the open source project.
  • In addition, the Dgraph community has been a vibrant and significant contributor to the advancement and success of Dgraph.
  • Dgraph is the graph database company, an open source, general purpose, distributed graph database powering high performance applications and operational needs.

Baseten Gives Data Science and Machine Learning Teams the Superpowers They Need to Build Production-Grade Machine Learning-Powered Apps, Raises $20 Million in Funding Led by Greylock

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The trio founded Baseten so that data scientists dont have to learn to become full-stack engineers in order to build web applications for their machine learning models.

Key Points: 
  • The trio founded Baseten so that data scientists dont have to learn to become full-stack engineers in order to build web applications for their machine learning models.
  • Baseten lowers the barrier to usable machine learning by enabling data science and machine learning teams to incorporate their machine learning models into production-grade applications within hours instead of months.
  • Baseten radically reduces the time, specialized expertise, cost and cross-team coordination required to successfully ship machine learning apps to production.
  • With Baseten, data science and machine learning teams can build applications without backend, frontend or MLOps knowledge, enabling faster, smarter decision-making at their organizations.

Decodable Closes $20M Round for Real-time Data Engineering Led by Venrock and Bain Capital Ventures

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The round follows a seed round of $5.5 million, led by Bain Capital Ventures, and brings the total funding to $25.5 million.

Key Points: 
  • The round follows a seed round of $5.5 million, led by Bain Capital Ventures, and brings the total funding to $25.5 million.
  • Decodable is the first company to put the power of real-time data engineering in the hands of every developer.
  • Venrock Partner Ethan Batraski said, Decodable is leading the movement for self-service real-time data.
  • Data mesh deployment: Seed and grow a self-service real-time data mesh between different teams building and consuming data products.

Ascend.io Announces First Annual Data Automation Summit

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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Ascend.io , the Data Automation Cloud, today announced the industrys first annual Data Automation Summit, taking place virtually April 13-14, 2022.

Key Points: 
  • Ascend.io , the Data Automation Cloud, today announced the industrys first annual Data Automation Summit, taking place virtually April 13-14, 2022.
  • The Data Automation Summit will provide a unique opportunity for data professionals and data leaders to engage with peers and learn more about the use of automation across the data lifecycle to increase team productivity and accelerate the creation of critical data products.
  • During this years first annual Data Automation Summit, were thrilled to accelerate the automation conversation among data professionals and showcase how some of todays most innovative companies are using advanced approaches to automation to create highly sophisticated data platforms and products.
  • To register for the Data Automation Summit, submit a speaking proposal, and view the full agenda as it is released, please visit: https://www.ascend.io/events/data-automation-summit-2022/registration/
    Ascend.io, the Data Automation Cloud named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, provides the most advanced automation for data and analytics engineering workloads.

Bob Muglia, former Snowflake CEO, to Speak at IMPACT, the World’s First Data Observability Summit

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Today, Monte Carlo, the data reliability company, announced that Bob Muglia, entrepreneur, board member, and former CEO of Snowflake, and DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist, will speak at IMPACT: The Data Observability Summit .

Key Points: 
  • Today, Monte Carlo, the data reliability company, announced that Bob Muglia, entrepreneur, board member, and former CEO of Snowflake, and DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist, will speak at IMPACT: The Data Observability Summit .
  • IMPACT is the first-ever Data Observability event, and an opportunity for data leaders across industries to share best practices and discuss how to drive business impact with their data at scale.
  • Im excited to speak at IMPACT: The Data Observability Summit and discuss some of the biggest opportunities and challenges in todays data landscape, said Bob Muglia, entrepreneur, investor, and former CEO of Snowflake.
  • Monte Carlo , the data reliability company, solves the costly problem of broken data through their fully automated, SOC-2 certified data observability platform.