headquarters menlo park california key people gurjeet singh ceo & co founder gunnar carlsson co founder harlan sexton vp of research & co founder andy jacques chief revenue officer daniel druker chief marketing officer services big data analytics machine learning number of employees 150 2016 website ayasdi ayasdi is a machine intelligence software company that offers a software platform and applications to organizations looking to analyze and build predictive models using big data and or highly dimensional data sets . organizations and governments have deployed ayasdi s software across a variety of use cases including the development of clinical pathways for hospitals 1 anti money laundering fraud detection trading strategies customer segmentation oil & gas well development drug development disease research information security anomaly detection and national security applications . 2 3 ayasdi focuses on hypothesis free automated analytics at scale . 4 in effect the ayasdi system consumes the target data set runs many different unsupervised and supervised machine learning algorithms on the data automatically finds and ranks best fits and then applies topological data analysis to find similar groups within the resultant data . it presents the end analysis in the form of a network similarity map which is useful for an analyst to use to further explore the groupings and correlations that the system has uncovered . this reduces the risk of bias since the system surfaces what the data says in an unbiased fashion rather than relying on analysts or data scientists manually running algorithms in support of pre existing hypotheses . 5 ayasdi then generates mathematical models which are deployed in predictive and operational systems and applications . organizations using ayasdi have found ayasdi s automated platform based approach to machine intelligence to be two to five orders of magnitude more efficient than existing approaches to big data analytics as measured in the amount of time and expense required to complete analysis and build models using large and complex data sets . one widely reported example at a top five global systemically important bank was that to build models required for the annual comprehensive capital analysis and review ccar process took 1 800 person months with traditional manual big data analytics and machine learning tools but took 6 person months with ayasdi . a project at a second global systemically important bank showed ayasdi reducing the time to build risk models from 3 000 person hours to 10 minutes . contents 1 history and funding 2 product 3 applications 4 users and industries 5 competitors 6 references 7 external links history and funding edit ayasdi was founded in 2008 by gunnar carlsson gurjeet singh and harlan sexton after 12 years of research and development at stanford university . 2 3 while at stanford the founders received 1.25 million in darpa and iarpa grants for high risk high payoff research . 2 in 2012 ayasdi landed a series a round of funding led by floodgate capital and khosla ventures for 10.25 million . 6 on july 16 2013 ayasdi closed a 30.6 million in series b funding from institutional venture partners ivp ge ventures and citi ventures . 7 on march 25 2015 ayasdi announced a new 55m round of series c funding led by kleiner perkins caufield & byers kpcb and joined by existing investors institutional venture partners ivp khosla ventures floodgate citi ventures and new investors centerview capital technology and draper nexus . 8 product edit ayasdi is a machine intelligence platform . it includes dozens of statistical and both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms and can be extended to include whatever algorithms are required for a particular class of analysis . the platform is extensively automated and is in production at at scale at many global 100 companies and at governments in the world . it features topological data analysis as a unifying analytical framework which automatically calculates groupings and similarity across large and highly dimensional data sets generating network maps with greatly assist analysts in understanding how data clusters and which variables are relevant . when compared with manual approaches to statistical analysis and machine learning results with ayasdi will typically be achieved much faster to achieve and more accurate due to the automation and scalability built into the platform . the ayasdi platform also develops mathematical models including predictive models based on the results of the analysis . this allows ayasdi to deployed as an operational system or as a part of operational systems and not just for analysis . 9 ayasdi can be deployed on premise using intel based servers or on either public or private cloud infrastructure . the platform runs on linux and hadoop applications edit ayasdi also develops machine intelligence applications . one example is ayasdi care which is a suite of cloud based applications for healthcare providers that is focused on managing and improving patient outcomes revenue and population health . for example ayasdi clinical variation one of the applications in ayasdi care automatically discovers the ideal care paths for medical procedures based on analyzing historical patient data billing records and insurance claims . users and industries edit ayasdi customers include many large enterprises medical research institutions and governments across industries including healthcare financial services oil & gas security life sciences and the public sector . 10 11 competitors edit ayasdi competes with a variety of big data analytics and machine learning vendors most commonly sas ibm and palantir from the commercial perspective as well as open source projects like r and spark . references edit intermountain to deploy clinical variation management software from ayasdi . health care it news . 2016 03 02 . retrieved 03 02 2016 . check date values in access date help a b c ayasdi a big data start up with a long history . the new york times . 2013 01 16 . retrieved 03 05 2013 . check date values in access date help a b a cure for cancer this big data startup says it can deliver . venturebeat . 2013 01 16 . retrieved 03 05 2013 . check date values in access date help knowing what s possible a big obstacle for big data . datanami . 2016 02 01 . retrieved 02 01 2016 . check date values in access date help how a nuisance variable turned into potential lifesaver . datanami . 2016 01 04 . retrieved 2016 01 04 . venture capital deals . cnnmoney . 2013 01 16 . retrieved 03 05 2013 . check date values in access date help http www.ayasdi.com connect pr ayasdi raises 30 million in series b funding from institutional venture partners ge ventures and citi ventures.html http www.ayasdi.com company media seriesc ayasdi comes out of stealth with 10.25 m to anwser unknown data questions . betakit . 2013 01 16 . retrieved 03 05 2013 . check date values in access date help darpa backed ayasdi launches with 10m from khosla floodgate to uncover the hidden value in big data . techcrunch . 2013 01 16 . retrieved 03 05 2013 . check date values in access date help extracting insights from the shape of complex data using topology . nature . 2012 09 13 . retrieved 04 01 2013 . check date values in access date help external links edit ayasdi founders and investor lecture and discussion with entrepreneurship students stanford entrepreneurship corner 2014.02.05 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ayasdi & oldid 722782653 categories business softwarecompanies based in palo alto californiahidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent 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