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The 10 Hottest Machine Learning And Data Science Startups In 2021
Rick Whiting
Businesses looking to bring the rewards of big data analysis to everyday users need ways to prepare and organize data and develop machine learning models for analyzing it. Here’s a look at 10 hot startups developing leading-edge data science and machine learning technologies that help them do that.

Tecton.ai
Top Executive: Mike Del Balso, Co-Founder, CEO
Tecton.ai exited stealth in April 2020 with its data platform for machine learning that’s designed to enable data scientists to turn raw data into the predictive signals that power machine learning models. The company’s goal is to solve the data challenges that constitute the biggest impediment to deploying machine learning in the enterprise.
The company’s founders—CEO Mike Del Balso, CTO Kevin Stumpf and Engineering Vice President Jeremy Hermann—worked together at Uber when the ride sharing giant was building and deploy new machine learning models. They created Uber’s Michelangelo machine learning platform and then went on to found Tecton.ai to develop technology to help other companies meet their operational machine learning data challenges.
Tecton.ai, founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, has raised $60 million in several rounds of funding.