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Snowflake Summit was awesome for me mostly for the really cool people I met up with. Catching up on all the innovation happening at all these startups is so invigorating. Some really smart folks doing cool stuff. I’m going to highlight a few of them over the next week before getting back to sharing demos on data and ai governance. One startup I’m keeping an eye on is Kater.ai. They’re building a new way to interact with knowledge hidden in your data systems. (Hint: it’s not tabular organization of structured data…. But has something to do with floating point numbers…. 🤣). I was so pumped to finally meet cofounder and CEO of Kater, Yvonne Chou! She is impressive as a person, as a developer, as a product leader, and as a CEO. My spidy sense is going off about her leading Kater to success! Over a delicious sushi dinner 😋, we talked about LLMs (cc Alex Sherstinsky); knowledge graphs and semantic meaning organization (cc Juan Sequeda and Joe Reis 🤓 ); gtm (cc everyone 😏and Dave Boyce and Randall Lloyd); differences in open source and pure saas business models (cc Alexander Dean); catalogs and metada; data quality (Abe Gong ); analytics stacks (cc Benn Stancil); and user personas of data products in the market. We talked about gaps in current data market (cc Yali Sassoon) and Yvonne is addressing a big one! It was such a 🔥 conversation. I learned a lot from Yvonne Chou and hopefully shared some interesting insights I have. Stay tuned. They’re onto something over at Kater.ai (YC W24)! #startups #llms #datatools #knowledgesharing

Becoming a data-driven business can take time, effort and money — something not all companies can afford. Chabi aims to change that with an all-in-one-data stack, built on Snowflake, that allows any company access to modern data tooling and AI and ML capabilities. In the Snowflake Startup Spotlight, Angad Singh, co-founder and CEO of Chabi, shares his startup journey and how Snowflake powers his business.

Startups vs Enterprises: the hidden gap at dbt Coalesce '23 Hey everyone, I hope you're having a great Saturday. I wanted to share some of my thoughts and reflections with you after taking the week to reflect. Coalesce was an amazing event and I learned a lot about the new features and products from dbt Labs. Here are some of the highlights: - The next generation of the dbt Semantic Layer, a new technology that enables fast and flexible querying of metrics across multiple data models. It also integrates with Tableau. - dbt Mesh, a new paradigm that allows data teams to build and maintain their own data products using a data mesh architecture. - Coming soon: dbt Cloud for Teams, dbt Cloud for Enterprise, dbt Cloud for Single-Tenant, dbt Cloud for Snowflake Partner Connect, and more. These updates are impressive and exciting, but they also reveal a hidden gap. Most of the new features and products are designed for large and complex organizations that have multiple data sources, models, teams, and stakeholders. And most of the industry talks are also from well-known and established companies that have mature and sophisticated data practices: - dbt Labs celebrated the growth and diversity of the dbt community, which now has over 80,000 members, 25,000 companies using dbt every week, and 3,500+ companies paying for dbt Cloud. - The conference featured sessions from industry leaders such as ClickUp, Fanduel, HubSpot, La-Z-Boy and Rivian. What about the startups and small businesses that are also using dbt to transform their data? Do you feel that dbt Labs is becoming too enterprise-centric and losing touch with its original community? dbt was built as an open source transformation tool for startups. The features released are all for cloud enterprise customers. I want to hear from you. If you attended Coalesce or watched the sessions online, what did you think? What did you hope to see? Please share your thoughts in the comments below. Let's start a conversation! #dbt #coalesce #startups #analyticsengineering #metricslayer #datawarehouse #datamart

Check out this month's Startup Spotlight to learn why Chabi Inc. built their product on Snowflake to help customers unlock all of their data and become a personalized operating system for their business

We are so pumped that BigGeo has been selected as one of the 10 semi-finalists for the Snowflake Startup Challenge 2024! The Snowflake Startup Challenge has grown into a premiere showcase for emerging startups, offering a prize package featuring a portion of up to $1 million in potential investment opportunities. Keep an eye out, we plan on taking this thing home! 🚀 #BuildBigThings #Snowflake #BigGeo

Thank you Snowflake for the recognition in the early stages of our journey ! At Quilr, we are on a critical mission to innovate how we prevent human-related security incidents - and it's not through the usual training and simulations. Imagine this...If traditional training is like memorizing directions before a journey, we're creating the GPS of security. Our core principle centers on Human-Centric Security Design, ensuring our solutions are as intuitive and essential as navigating with a GPS. Stay tuned for more updates on our game-changing approach! Fight AI with AI!!! https://lnkd.in/gJ2c73WC #Cybersecurity #Innovation #HumanCentricSecurity #nextgensecurity #securitybehaviorprogram #securityposture #humanriskmanagement #adaptivehumanprotection #genai

Big props to Stellar …made the cut to the top 10! “In 2020, Snowflake announced a new global competition to recognize the work of early-stage startups building their apps — and their businesses — on Snowflake, offering up to $250,000 in investment as the top prize. Four years later, the Snowflake Startup Challenge has grown into a premiere showcase for emerging startups, garnering interest from companies in over 100 countries and offering a prize package featuring a portion of up to $1 million in potential investment opportunities and exclusive mentorship and marketing opportunities from NYSE…. …. Stellar is designed to make generative AI easy for Snowflake customers. It deploys gen AI components as containers on Snowpark Container Services, close to the customer’s data. Stellar Launchpad gives customers a conversational way to analyze and synthesize structured and unstructured data to power AI initiatives, making it possible to deploy multiple gen AI apps and virtual assistants to meet the demand for AI-driven business outcomes”

From Techcrunch: TechCrunch+ Roundup: SaaS+ basics, Labor Day book picks, building trust with AI customers ------------------------------- Considering the ongoing debate about the existential dangers of AI, it was interesting to watch a three-hour historical epic about the dawn of the Atomic Age last night. #techcrunch #startups #breakingtechnews

Wondering, "What can I do TODAY to achieve my first wins with data and drive growth?" We've introduced four powerful tools this year, especially relevant to earlier stage teams just starting out on their journey to be more data-driven: 1. Web Analytics 2. Session Replay 3. Sidecar (low-code website experimentation) 4. Product Analytics Get started today: https://lnkd.in/dVNwpa5V #startups #developercommunity #growth #data #analytics

From Techcrunch: TechCrunch+ Roundup: SaaS+ basics, Labor Day book picks, building trust with AI customers ------------------------------- Considering the ongoing debate about the existential dangers of AI, it was interesting to watch a three-hour historical epic about the dawn of the Atomic Age last night. #techcrunch #startups #breakingtechnews