For State of Mind AI, an employee experience analytics solution, its cloud-based product makes it possible to interact with end users in real time. “Leveraging the cloud also helps us evolve the performance of our products on the fly while maintaining security, safety and data protection. In addition, it helps us to optimize costs as a start-up in the start-up phase. ” shares Manoj Kumar, Founder, State of Mind AI.

Metabob, an AI company that has developed a tool for debugging and visualizing Python code, depends on using cloud-based solutions to collect and process training data. “We are a data-driven company. The need to direct data to the same locations as our training data is critical. Thus, leveraging cloud resources remains an essential part of our daily work, ”said Massi Genta, CEO of Metabob.

State of Mind AI and Metabob are among eight startups that are part of the NetApp Excellerator 8 cohort and harness the power of data and cloud solutions to drive impact across industries and use cases. The other six startups in the latest cohort of NetApp’s Global Startup Acceleration Program are Nife, Tongadive, FireCompass, Data Sutram, Maxbyte and snapblocs. Nife, Tongadive and Firecompass are also part of the second cohort of NetApp ExcellerateHER – NetApp’s dedicated acceleration program that helps female entrepreneurs disrupt the tech space.

“Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have sparked enthusiasm in companies at all levels about the limitless possibilities these technologies have for growth. However, scalable solutions that take advantage of these technologies to secure business information have yet to be discovered. The startups participating in this year’s NetApp Excellerator Cohort 8 have demonstrated a great ability to bridge this gap, and we are delighted to support their efforts to open new doors for growth in all industries ”. shares Madhurima Agarwal, Leader, NetApp Excellerator.

Let’s take a look at the eight startups that have joined NetApp Excellerator Cohort 8

Metabob

Founded in 2020 by Massi Genta and Avinash Gopal, Metabob solves the dilemma developers around the world face on a daily basis – a tedious and error-prone code remediation process. The startup is rising to the challenge with its AI-assisted tool that can debug and visualize Python code.

“Using a combination of conventional static analysis, attention-based models, and a 360-degree viewer, Metabob detects likely sources of problems that other tools wouldn’t find, and how they interact directly with other aspects of your code base, as well as plain text recommendations on how to fix them. Metabob’s model is based on open source code by Python developers around the world, creating a dynamic and particularly intuitive foundation to help identify where problems are likely to occur ”. said Massi. The startup is based in Palo Alto, California.

State of mind

Launched in 2020, State of Mind is a Bengaluru-based HR Tech start-up founded by Manoj Kumar. State of Mind is an in-depth technology-based conversational application that captures employee experiences at over 100 functional and emotional moments throughout the employee journey to gain the necessary visibility into the ever-changing employee needs and create experiences. that matter most.

The app provides individuals, managers and leaders with personalized and actionable information, and can play a critical role in retaining top talent and reducing attrition by understanding their needs and wants. It identifies priority areas for rapid growth or change, providing managers and leadership with continuous insight to effectively lead virtual teams. As a result, organizations would spend less time collecting feedback and more time planning, resulting in a substantial improvement in employee engagement and well-being.

Tongadive

Founded in 2019 by Anubha Dixit, Tongadive focuses on solving business problems through software products based on data orchestration. Concerned about the rampant selling of counterfeit products in the healthcare sector, Tongadive has developed Evidnt, which combines blockchain and neural network-based AI to build a secure, immutable and transparent digital journey of a product through the supply chain. The solution tracks provenance, proof of origin and counterfeiting prevention through secure and robust supply chain monitoring. Evidnt also enables businesses to comply with healthcare regulations more effectively at a reduced cost.

In addition, its artificial intelligence engine provides demand forecasting capability based on predictive analytics as well as end-to-end visibility. “We plan to continue to develop Evidnt as a predictive analytics solution with the goal of ‘Amazonifying’ the healthcare supply chain while expanding into other industries that increasingly require monitoring. where their supply chains come from, ” said Anubha.

Snapblocs Inc.

Snapblocs provides codeless data platforms. The startup was founded by Jin Kim, Janardhan Guduru, and Paul Skillen, who had worked together for 10 years building large-scale data engineering systems for a social network and a people search company.

The three observed that IT teams often spent too much time building a basic infrastructure for each project. They also observed that teams were reinventing common data platform models within their projects, making the process cumbersome. snapblocs was designed to meet these challenges, based on the founders’ deep belief in software architecture and automation. The platform offers a library of pre-built, architectural data platform solutions, and its SaaS-based dpStudio UX makes it easy. snapblocs dramatically reduces the time and effort required to design, build and operate a cloud data platform infrastructure.

The startup says the snapblocks process is 30 times faster, and companies can see a significant increase in the percentage of time spent working on business goals compared to building basic infrastructure. The product is currently in the beta pre-launch phase.

Data Sutram

Data Sutram was founded by three colleagues from the University of Jadavpur – Rajit Bhattacharya, Aisik Paul and Ankit Das in 2018. Its main product is a B2B location data engine that cleans, processes, geolocates data from multiple sources and combines with AI & ML Methodologies to create precise actionable data and information for every location.

Data Sutram’s data engines have the ability to process data in any form, collected from any unstructured repository, and convert it into payload forms. It further combines the platform’s 200+ multiple data fields interactively to bring out over 150 insightful indexes applicable to any geography at a fine and granular level, making it very comprehensive to understand. and read.

Its granular data and custom industry-specific verticals help reduce the time it takes for businesses to adapt to data-driven decision making. The product architecture allows for end-of-the-line customization, thus meeting the needs of businesses.

Nife

Nife is a Singapore-based enterprise application orchestration and deployment platform provider. It bundles the infrastructure together to provide last mile computation for low latency and cost effective use cases.

The platform brings together CDNs, data centers, ISPs, hyper-scalers and telecommunications companies. Use cases for the platform include applications such as the Internet of Things, AI, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Nife also enables businesses to access local regions at scale through one-click deployment and helps them offload compute from devices to a closer edge location.

Nife was launched during the announced lockdown following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Proof of concept, product prototypes and stakeholder discussions all took place remotely.

Maxbyte Technologies

Maxbyte Technologies is an Industry 4.0 company that meets the digitization and robotization needs of factories and industries. One of the flagship products in its portfolio, byteFACTORY, is a digitalization solution for the entire digital lifecycle of smart connected products for manufacturing companies.

In many factories today, contextual data and information resides in silos between business systems and individual machines or processes. The challenge is compounded by the fact that there is no correlation of data throughout the product value chain. With byteFACTORY, all assets (including production machines and energy and utility machines) and business systems are connected, and data flow occurs seamlessly throughout the lifecycle. of the product – from design to manufacture and beyond.

With byteFACTORY applications, manufacturers can increase productivity, reduce the time it takes to bring new products to market, and improve after-sales service. Maxbyte Technologies was founded in 2016 by Ramshankar CS, Viswanathan T, Srisabarinathan D, Surendran D and Vinoth Kumar P.

Fire compass

Cybercriminals have an advantage in that they only need to be successful once while defenders must be successful every time. Organizations typically test some of their assets, sometimes, while hackers attack all assets, all of the time.

Continuous Automated Red Teaming, or CART, is a new and emerging area of ​​cybersecurity that can be a game-changer in solving this problem. That’s where FireCompass comes in. FireCompass helps businesses map their digital attack surface, including Shadow IT blind spots, by constantly discovering, indexing, and monitoring the web. The platform then automatically launches secure multi-step attacks, mimicking a real attacker, to help identify attack paths before hackers do.

FireCompass CART (Continuous Automated Red Teaming) is designed to automate red teaming to achieve the breadth and depth of the process and eliminate the need for multiple tools and significant manual effort while providing continuous, proactive safety. The startup was started in 2019 by serial security entrepreneurs and is led by Bikash Barai, Priyanka Aash and Paul Dibello. FireCompass has offices in Boston and Bangalore.