WibiData

Co-Founder and CEO: Christophe Bisciglia

Everyone's familiar with Amazon.com's ability to provide a highly personalized experience to online shoppers. San Francisco-based WibiData, founded in 2010, develops real-time applications that help any business do just that.

The company's WibiEnterprise platform uses advanced analytics to provide customers with recommendations, personalized content and relevant search results. The platform is built on a number of open-source Apache technologies including Hadoop, HBase and Cassandra, as well as the Kiji open-source project framework for collecting, analyzing and serving data in real time. Earlier this year the startup released WibiRetail, the company's first out-of-the-box application for retailers.

Investors include Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Cloudera founder Mike Olson.