Top Big Data Startups in 2027

Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns. Run mobile app marketing campaigns optimized to drive post-install events like registering or making a purchase. We are building a sustainable engine of growth for mobile app companies, by solving the problem of connecting users with the mobile apps that they will actually value.  We're tackling this by leveraging programmatic advertising and state-of-the-art machine learning.

At alation, we are a team that is passionate about creating a more curious and rational world by providing our customers with the tools to build a data culture. from our product to how we operate as a team, we’re excited to change the world by combining machine learning and human collaboration to bring confidence to data-driven decisions.

We're empowering the world to build a safer internet. All technology contains bugs, but they can be eliminated safely if we all work together. Our platform makes world-class security accessible to everyone by connecting security conscious teams directly with thousands of friendly hackers who are eager to help. We work with some of the biggest organizations in the world, who use the HackerOne platform for their vulnerability coordination and bug bounty programs, and the list keeps growing (hackerone.com/directory?query=type:hackerone). Do you share our passion for an open and safe internet? Read about our values (hackerone.com/blog/Together-We-Hit-Harder-HackerOne-Company-Values) and see if you might be a good fit to join the team: hackerone.com/careers.

Very Good Security offers a modern approach to data security and compliance. With VGS, companies can quickly and easily achieve compliances including PCI, SOC2, HIPAA and GDPR. VGS acts as a data custodian for sensitive and regulated data like payments, health info, personally identifiable information (PII), etc. Companies are able to securely collect and exchange data, without any of the liability or breach risk associated with holding the data themselves. With VGS "Zero Data" platform, you get all the utility of using sensitive data with none of the liability of needing to secure it yourself.

Shift Technology has decided to fight insurance fraud in a totally novel and disruptive way. We are offering a SaaS solution that is easy to integrate, pay-as-you-go, always up-to-date, and leverages our finely tuned mixture of bleeding edge machine learning algorithms and expert knowledge of the insurance business, with a powerful big data analytics platform.

Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka®, Confluent builds a streaming platform that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. Every byte of data has a story to tell, something of significance that will inform the next thing to be done. In a data-driven enterprise, how we move our data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. With greater speed and agility, data’s value increases exponentially. From its very early days, we have open-sourced Apache Kafka® and have led it to impressive industry-wide adoption across several thousand companies. Now we are focusing on building a streaming platform to help other companies get easy access to enterprise data as real-time streams.

Built for organizations that need more control over their communications; it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations, or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure. Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication hub that offers numerous solutions: Omnichannel Customer Experience, Team Collaboration, and DevOps. The main benefit is to centralize organizational communication and boost productivity by bringing messages, video calls, file sharing, and all team communication into one place. Built-in JavaScript, using the Meteor full-stack framework, the tool offers omnichannel customer engagement through LiveChat widget and integrations with Whatsapp, Twilio, Messenger, SMS, Emails, among others. Team collaboration can be improved by chat messaging, video conferences, audio messages, file sharing, threads, discussion groups, direct or group messages, real-time translation, audit messaging panel, and custom user permissions. DevOps can be accelerated with native integrations offered in Rocket.Chat`s marketplace, real-time LDAP, webhooks, and powerful APIs.

Monte Carlo is leading one of the most promising emerging categories in SaaS, Data Reliability. Monte Carlo helps data teams manage data reliability in the same way that New Relic helps engineering teams manage application reliability. As companies invest millions to become data-driven, Monte Carlo helps solve one of the biggest challenges data/analytics/ML teams face today: making sure data can be trusted at all times by minimizing data downtime. Founded in 2019 by Barr Moses and Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo is backed by Accel, GGV, the former Chief Technologist of Cloudera, and former Chief Data Scientist of the United States.

Nation's largest college planning program providing enrollment solutions and insightful analytics. We are the leading provider of data and analytics solutions to public and private colleges and universities. Our Data Lab intelligence provides better match and information to serve students, parents and educators. Data Insights on what is top of mind in the student and parent population provides the foundation for helping higher education leaders make data based informed decisions. We leverage our data and platform to help colleges and universities improve key metrics around student success and graduation rates.

As network and service operators and developers, we’ve spent our professional lives designing and running large-scale networks. We know the shortcomings of available tools. What we always wanted — but never found — was an infrastructure visibility solution that’s scalable, powerful, easy to use, and affordable. We started Kentik to create that solution.