The Coolest Business Analytics Companies Of The 2021 Big Data 100

April 26, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT

Part 1 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data business analytics space.

Ahana

Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Steven Mih

Ahana, which just launched in 2020, is one of several companies building big data systems around Presto, the high-performance distributed SQL query engine for distributed data residing in a variety of sources.

The startup, based in San Mateo, Calif., develops PrestoDB-based ad-hoc analytics software. In late 2020 the company launched the Ahana Cloud for Presto managed service and earlier this year expanded the service with new data lake caching and security capabilities.

Ahana raised $4.8 million in seed round funding last year from investors that included GV (formerly Google Ventures).

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Rick Whiting

Rick Whiting has been with CRN since 2006 and is currently a feature/special projects editor. Whiting manages a number of CRN’s signature annual editorial projects including Channel Chiefs, Partner Program Guide, Big Data 100, Emerging Vendors, Tech Innovators and Products of the Year. He also covers the Big Data beat for CRN. He can be reached at rwhiting@thechannelcompany.com.