ThoughtSpot
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Formerly called
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Scaligent Inc. |
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| Industry | Analytics, Business intelligence |
| Founded | 2012 in Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Founders | Ajeet Singh, Shashank Gupta, Vijay Ganesan, Sanjay Agrawal, Abhishek Rai, Priyendra Deshwai, Amit Prakash |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto |
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Number of employees
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120 (2016) |
| Website | http://www.thoughtspot.com/ |
ThoughtSpot, Inc. is a technology company that produces business-intelligence analytics search software. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in London and Seattle.
ThoughtSpot was founded in 2012, and as of May 2016, had raised over $90 million in funding. ThoughtSpot's clients include companies such as Bed Bath & Beyond and Hightail.
ThoughtSpot was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers who previously worked for Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other Silicon Valley companies. The CEO and co-founder, Ajeet Singh, previously co-founded the company Nutanix. In late 2012, ThoughtSpot raised $10.7 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. In 2014, the company raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures. In January 2016, the company opened an office in London in an effort to expand to the European market. In February 2016, ThoughtSpot announced that it had increased its revenue by 810 percent over the previous year. In May 2016, ThoughtSpot raised $50 million in Series C funding led by General Catalyst Partners. In October 2016, the company expanded its series C funding with an investment from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder. As part of the investment, ThoughtSpot will enter the Pathfinder program and begin selling its software on Hewlett-Packard infrastructure.
ThoughtSpot's allows for non-technical individuals to conduct a self-service data analysis search. ThoughtSpot's relational search engine can analyze information from any data source, including data warehouses, point of sale data and social media sites.
In 2015, ThoughtSpot released ThoughtSpot 3, which included DataRank, a machine learning algorithm that presents data suggestions to guide users as input is being typed, AutoJoins, which automatically graphs data sources and joins tables to calculate answers across previously siloed databases, and PopCharts a visualization engine that sorts through possible charts and graphs and presents users with the one best suited to their search.
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