Revolutionary Enterprise Networking and IT Startups of 2016
Panoply
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Funding/investors: Raised $1.3M in seed funding in 2015, with Blumberg Capital, 500 Startups and FundersGuild listed as significant participants.
Panoply is set out to revolutionize the world of advanced data management for low touch users in companies, who need access to all sorts of data for analyzing via tools like Excel and Tableau. The companys technology is built atop Amazon Redshift, Elasticsearch and Hadoop.
Periscope Data
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Funding/investors: $9.5M in Series A funding in October 2015, led by DFJ.
Periscope Data is a data analysis tool that unifies business data across multiple different data sources. By plugging into database, marketing and billing systems, it can show customers how email and SMS affect user retention as well as which sales channels produce the most loyal users, and how many users use both web and mobile frontends. The company is founded in 2012, by ex-Google AdWords and Microsoft Bing PMs and engineers who have worked together for several years.
Saama
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Funding/investors: $35M in funding from Carrick Capital in June, 2015.
Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Saama is the leading data science consulting and solutions company delivering Analytics Advantage to Global 2000 clients. The companys Fluid Analytics Engine maximizes existing customer infrastructure, allowing organizations to focus between existing capabilities and the critical business questions that need to be answered.
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