Data science

Powered by specialized software and real-time analytics systems, big data, data science, and data analytics caters to numerous benefits for companies worldwide. Thus, the demand for big data firms has been increasing exponentially. There are various emerging AI and data analytics startups that are raising funds. Keeping that in mind, this article lists the top funding in data science startups to look out for in 2021. 

Realbox

Total Funding Amount - US$300K

Investors: Hyderabad Angels.

In 2015, Preksha Kaparwan, Saurabh Moody, and Arjun Sudhanshu started a company to offer distinct experiences by solving real-time issues. They developed a similar product to Google Analytics, named Pulse while taking care of big data Hadoop.

CropIn

Total Funding Amount- US$32.6M

Investors: Invested Development and Pratithi Investment Trust 

Founded in 2010, Kunal Prasad and Krishna Kumar develop a SaaS model for the agricultural sector. The company offers solutions to farmers such as data interpretation, weather foresight, financial analytics, geotagging, satellite monitoring, big data analytics, AI, etc.

Dataweave 

Total Funding Amount - US$290K

Investors: WaterBridge Ventures and FreakOut Holdings 

DataWeave is an emerging technology company that provides actionable analytics to businesses using publicly available data on the web. The technology platform aggregates, organizes, and analyzes millions of unstructured data points across multiple data sources and provides access to these insights through dashboards, reports, visualizations, and APIs. The data products can be used to better understand the competition, monitor their brand, optimize offerings for their customers, increase sales, and much more.

Qubole 

Total Funding Amount - US$77.9M

Investors: Norwest Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners 

Qubole Data Services boasts of a simple interface that masks the complexity of the analytics framework to help organizations make use of its capabilities more easily. After retrieving the information, it is processed using the pre-packaged connectors. A user can put together a query in its graphical workbench and let the algorithms under the hood take it from there. The platform allocates hardware resources needed for a particular request and immediately frees up the infrastructure after everything is done to minimize overheads.

Fractal Analytics

Total Funding Amount - US$325M

Investors: TA Associates and Khazanah Nasional 

Fractal Analytics helps companies in predictive analytics and decision sciences to understand, predict and shape consumer behavior through advanced analytics. With multiple products and platforms created to meet varying business analytics needs, Fractal Analytics covers a wide array of problems and provides its solutions. With new products in the healthcare space and even an AI-based personal assistant, it is no surprise that Fractal Analytics is India’s second-largest data analytics firm.

Heckyl

Total Funding Amount -US$7.5M

Investors: Notion Capital and Chiratae Ventures 

With trading being uncertain and sensitive to changes all across the world, Heckyl aims to be a global leader in the space of data analytics for worldwide financial markets. Imagine one place to keep track of all the news, people's emotions, trending sentiments and so on that can optimize your trading strategy. Heckyl is radically transforming the trading industry for all the involved stakeholders to find the best trading opportunities.

Zendrive 

Total Funding Amount - US$57M

Investors: XL Innovate and Hearst Ventures 

This data science startup created a state-of-the-art technology platform to leverage mobile sensor data and gather insights. These insights proved to be crucial in averting road accidents and by extension, road traffic deaths. They evaluate this data to understand driver behaviors and road risks, to reduce chances of collisions. The technology they use is AI-powered and data-driven to offer behavior analytics solutions to customers. Their biggest achievement is that their algorithm predicts collision risks six times more accurately than competitors.

Razorthink 

Total Funding Amount - US$20M

Investors: Not Disclosed 

Harsha Nutalapati, Barbara Reichert, Gary Oliver, Rupesh Rao, Murali Mahalingam, Dr. Nandu Nandakumar, and Tom Drotleff founded Razorthink in 2015 as an enterprise AI solutions provider. The company accumulates automation, AI optimization, data science, and dynamic models offering AI-based customer services, intellectual process automation, fraud detection, risk management, business predictions, etc.