Ayasdi
Ayasdi is an enterprise Software company that sells big data analytics technology to organizations looking to analyze high-dimensional, high volume data sets. Organizations and companies have deployed Ayasdi's software across a variety of uses cases including the development of clinical pathways for hospitals, fraud detection, trading strategies, oil & gas well development, [...] development and national security applications.
Ayasdi focuses on applying topology to data analysis in the areas of life sciences, oil & gas, public sector, financial services, manufacturing, retail, telecom, etc.
History
Ayasdi was founded in 2008 by Gunnar Carlsson, Gurjeet Singh, and Harlan Sexton after 12 years of R&D at Stanford University. During the 12 years of R&D the founders received $1.25 million in DARPA and IARPA grants for "high-risk, high-payoff research". In 2012 Ayasdi landed a series A round of funding led by Floodgate Capital and Khosla Ventures for $10.25 million. On July 16, 2013 Ayasdi closed a $30.6 million in series B funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), GE Ventures, and Citi Ventures.
Product
Ayasdi Core 3.0 allows domain experts and data scientists alike to run topological data analysis on big data sets allowing them to answer unknown data questions. Ayasdi currently has dozens of customers using Core in industries including oil & gas, financial services, life science, and the public sector.