Predictive Analytics Platform Predata Launches U.S. Equities Offering.

Predata the predictive analytics company for anticipating geopolitical risk, today announced the release of a new suite of signals for U.S. equities. The signals quantify online attention and concern to each of the eleven S&P equity sectors, as well as constituent companies and macro themes within those sectors. Financial market participants have found success in applying the Predata suite of geopolitical risk signals to multiple asset classes, including FX and commodities, but this marks the first dedicated offering for U.S. equities. Predata customers are now able to use these new out-of-the box signals to inform their perspective on the various equity sectors, going from a macro view of sector themes all the way down to a single company. These new signals round out Predata’s financial markets vertical, and were built using the same methodology the company used to build its industry-leading geopolitical risk signals. The Predata platform applies machine learning techniques to transform web traffic data into large-scale real world insights. “We’ve seen a great deal of client demand for Predata signals that relate to equities,” said Mars Spencer, VP of Financial Markets for Predata. “After conducting extensive research and tests to ensure the signals would make a positive impact for clients, we’re pleased to launch this new offering and are thrilled to see the responses from users so far. In addition to this development, Predata added to its advisory board Scott Nations, Chief Investment Officer of NationsShares, who brings a wealth of experience in trading and financial engineering. “I have found the Predata technology to be fascinating,” said Nations. “I’m excited to help the Predata team continue to expand their offerings within both buy-side and sell-side financial market participants.” Nations joins Predata’s finance advisory board along several leading industry figures, including Kyle Bass, Neal Brady, Ashby Monk and Emmanuel Derman.

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Airbyte Racks Up Awards from InfoWorld, BigDATAwire, Built In; Builds Largest and Fastest-Growing User Community

Airbyte | January 30, 2024

Airbyte, creators of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, today announced a series of accomplishments and awards reinforcing its standing as the largest and fastest-growing data movement community. With a focus on innovation, community engagement, and performance enhancement, Airbyte continues to revolutionize the way data is handled and processed across industries. “Airbyte proudly stands as the front-runner in the data movement landscape with the largest community of more than 5,000 daily users and over 125,000 deployments, with monthly data synchronizations of over 2 petabytes,” said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte. “This unparalleled growth is a testament to Airbyte's widespread adoption by users and the trust placed in its capabilities.” The Airbyte community has more than 800 code contributors and 12,000 stars on GitHub. Recently, the company held its second annual virtual conference called move(data), which attracted over 5,000 attendees. Airbyte was named an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award finalist: Data Management – Integration (in October) for cutting-edge products that are changing how IT organizations work and how companies do business. And, at the start of this year, was named to the Built In 2024 Best Places To Work Award in San Francisco – Best Startups to Work For, recognizing the company's commitment to fostering a positive work environment, remote and flexible work opportunities, and programs for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, the company received the BigDATAwire Readers/Editors Choice Award – Big Data and AI Startup, which recognizes companies and products that have made a difference. Other key milestones in 2023 include the following. Availability of more than 350 data connectors, making Airbyte the platform with the most connectors in the industry. The company aims to increase that to 500 high-quality connectors supported by the end of this year. More than 2,000 custom connectors were created with the Airbyte No-Code Connector Builder, which enables data connectors to be made in minutes. Significant performance improvement with database replication speed increased by 10 times to support larger datasets. Added support for five vector databases, in addition to unstructured data sources, as the first company to build a bridge between data movement platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). Looking ahead, Airbyte will introduce data lakehouse destinations, as well as a new Publish feature to push data to API destinations. About Airbyte Airbyte is the open-source data movement infrastructure leader running in the safety of your cloud and syncing data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. Airbyte offers four products: Airbyte Open Source, Airbyte Self-Managed, Airbyte Cloud, and Powered by Airbyte. Airbyte was co-founded by Michel Tricot (former director of engineering and head of integrations at Liveramp and RideOS) and John Lafleur (serial entrepreneur of dev tools and B2B). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team around the world. To learn more, visit airbyte.com.

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