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Fractal Analytics
Company typePrivate
Founded2000
FounderSrikanth Velamakanni and Pranay Agrawal
Headquarters
United States Edit this on Wikidata
Area served
Worldwide
Websitewww.fractalanalytics.com

Fractal Analytics is an analytics service provider based in India and United states.[1] It is India's second-Largest analytics firm.[2]

History

Fractal Analytics was founded in 2000 by Srikanth Velamakanni, Pranay Agrawal, Nirmal Palaparthi, Pradeep Suryanarayan and Ramakrishna Reddy.[3] In 2005, the company settled in New York, United States and later moved to New Jersey where the company is currently headquartered. In 2006, they became P&G's partner.[4] In 2007, the company became India’s second-largest analytics company.[4] In January 2015, an office was opened in Bengaluru, India. The company has additional offices in Mumbai, Gurgaon in India; and Singapore, New Jersey, San Mateo, London and Germany.[citation needed] In 2015 they acquired Imagna Analytics[5] and Mobius Innovations.[6][7]

In 2016, Fractal Analytics appointed Pranay Agrawal as the CEO to replace co-founder Srikanth Velamakanni, the new Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice-Chairman.[8] It also expanded its operations including the creation of two new subsidiaries Qure.ai[9] and Cuddle.ai.[10] In August 2016, they partnered with KNIME, an open source data analytics.[11]

Overview

Fractal Analytics is based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques.[12][13][8] Their products include Customer Genomics;[14][15][16] Trial Run, a cloud-based business platform;[17][non-primary source needed] text mining suite: dCrypt;[18] and Centralized Analytics Environment (CAE), a collaborative workbench built on the KNIME Server.[19][non-primary source needed]

References

  1. ^ Sainul k Abudheen (12 January 2015). "Fractal Analytics buys mobile-based context-aware Big Data startup Mobius Innovations". VCCircle. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ^ Shravan Bhat (5 November 2013). "Fractal Analytics: India's Second-Largest Analytics Firm". Forbes India. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  3. ^ "Fractal Analytics buys mobile-based context-aware Big Data startup Mobius Innovations". www.vccircle.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  4. ^ a b "Fractal Analytics: India's Second-Largest Analytics Firm". Forbes India. November 5, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2017. After a painful board-level split in 2007, Fractal Analytics turned things around to become India's second-largest analytics company and growing {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "Fractal Analytics Acquires AI Startup to Expand Customer Genomics". Boston Business Journal. October 29, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  6. ^ "Fractal Analytics buys Mobius Innovations". The Hindu. January 13, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  7. ^ "Fractal Analytics acquires Singapore-based Mobius Innovations". The Mint. 12 January 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Fractal Analytics appoints co-founder Pranay Agrawal as new CEO". VCCircle. November 2, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  9. ^ "Qure.ai Wins Nvidia's Social Innovation Award". The Telegraph (Calcutta). December 21, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  10. ^ "Cuddle.ai closes the gap between analytics in the personal and enterprise world". SD Times. 2 November 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  11. ^ "Fractal Analytics Partners With KNIME to Accelerate Institutionalization of Analytics for its Fortune 500 Clients". Yahoo finance. August 9, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  12. ^ "Daily Research News Online no. 21975 - Fractal Analytics Names Head of AI and Machine Learning". www.mrweb.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  13. ^ "Analytics sector will figure among world top three: Nasscom". The Hindu. October 18, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  14. ^ "'Genomic' analytics: Build sales by finding your most profitable customers". TechRepublic. May 30, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  15. ^ Finextra (2016-09-20). "Misys unveils Platform-as-a-Service strategy". Finextra Research. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  16. ^ Kurmanath, K. V. (2013-06-28). "Fractal Analytics to double headcount to 1,200". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  17. ^ "A global Analytics firm empowering companies with an immense echelon of Insight, Impact and Innovation: Fractal Analytics". The Silicon Review. June 29, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  18. ^ "dCrypt: AI engine for text classification". Fractal Analytics. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  19. ^ "Centralized Analytics Environment (CAE)". Fractal Analytics. Retrieved February 22, 2017.