One decade has passed since the idea of big data, and datas are still ones of the most important and fastest growing innovation powers for both bigger companies and new startups. Even from impulse-control (which is the base of business operation) to daily tasks’ automatic processes via AI, datas have become the central element of decision-making, no matter the size of the organization. Furthermore, data using grew bigger than data scientists, data analyzers and data technicians – everyone is a generator and consumer of them.
This results the focus on datas: according to guesses, utilizing business datas will be the fastest growing field of infrastructure in 2021, which’s value is over 70 billion US dollars, and which is more than the 20% of total company spendings on infrastructure. The forming of this market is interesting in terms of the fact, that it is combining software development, analyzing and AI, while joining the flow of cloud-base computer science.
The growth of data indusrty caught the attention of last years’ most exciting and biggest influencing software organizations. Companies, such as Snowflake and Confluent have already changed the operations of companies, and the produce of millions of products. Most, however do not know the main engines – the category definer companies’ next generation.
After the record breaker year of 2021, data companies got 10 billions of risk-investment funds, so an even stronger 2022 might come. To see through the crowd of companies, site Future has stood the Data50 list, where they collected the fanciest startups of the industry. The value of these 50 companies are more than 100 billion US dollars, and have collected assets which worth 14,5 billion US dollars. 20 of them have already reached the „unicorn” status untill 2021. Learn more about the listed companies on Future’s site, what they are dealing with, what trends are dominating, and how they are located geographically, etc.
Source: future.a16z.com