How do you evaluate millions of different signals when time is of the essence?

This was the question that started it all.

The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) sought the capability to track national security threats in real time. The solution needed to produce instant results and visualize insights from massive streaming datasets.

Nothing existed in the market that met their needs. Data warehouses were too slow, geospatial systems wouldn’t scale, and premium in-memory solutions promised real-time but didn't deliver.

2009

Research Initiated to Develop Parallel Processing with GPUs

Contracting for the US Army in Arlington, VA, future company founders Amit Vij and Nima Negahban find no existing systems capable of meeting the Army’s needs. They design a new database from the ground up, leveraging the massive parallelization capabilities of GPUs to explore and visualize rapidly changing data in real time.

2014

Initial Success

As data volumes grow, more organizations also start to run up against the challenge of streaming and analyzing data simultaneously in real time. USPS starts using GPUdb to optimize routes and increase accuracy.

2016

Commercialization

Kinetica receives its second High Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award from IDC. Former President & COO of Oracle, Ray Lane contributes funding. Kinetica opens offices in San Francisco and adoption starts to grow among business.

2017

More Capabilities for Real Time Analytics

Expanding SQL compatibility, a user defined functions framework, and numerous improvements to core make it easier for businesses to adopt Kinetica and deploy it for sophisticated workloads. $50-million Series A financing jointly led by Canvas Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners with participation from Citi Ventures and existing investor Ray Lane of GreatPoint Ventures. Growth takes off.

2019

Active Analytics

Kinetica introduces the new Active Analytics platform, with improved AI and ML integration, a graph server for routing, automated install and configuration in a high-performance, cloud-ready package. Telecoms, security and transportation companies now using Kinetica.

2021

Into the Cloud

Kinetica becomes available as a fully managed service in the Cloud. Continued focus on core features and an improved Workbench interface drives growth among enterprises, new tech and government agencies including some of the largest IoT data analytics implementations in the world.

Leadership Team

Nima Negahban

CEO & Co-Founder

Nima Negahban is Kinetica’s Chief Executive Officer, original developer and software architect of the Kinetica platform. Leveraging his unique insight into data processing, he established the core vision and goal of the Kinetica platform. Nima has developed innovative big data systems across a wide spectrum of market sectors, ranging from biotechnology to high-speed trading systems using GPUs, as Lead Architect and Engineer with The Real Deal, Digital Sports, Equipoise Imaging, and Synergetic Data Systems. Early in his career, Nima was a Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Nima holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Amit Vij

President & Co-Founder

Amit Vij is Cofounder and President of Kinetica, responsible for the company’s vision and strategic direction. Amit cofounded Kinetica and helped guide the development of the Kinetica platform after working for more than a decade in software development in both commercial and federal markets with an emphasis on analyzing and visualizing big data. He was the Chief GEOINT Technical Architect as a contractor for a major Top Secret cloud initiative between the US Army, NSA and the DIA. Prior to Kinetica, Amit was a subject matter expert on geospatial intelligence with General Dynamics AIS and had been Chief Architect for several Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security contracts. Amit received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland with concentrations in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.

Shawn Johnson

Chief Financial Officer

Shawn has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry with deep expertise in strategic financial planning and fundraising for companies ranging from start-ups to established industry players.

Eli Glaser

SVP Engineering

Chad Meley

Chief Marketing Officer

Chad Meley is CMO for Kinetica. Chad’s experience includes more than 20 years as a leader in SaaS, big data, advanced analytics, and data-driven marketing, strategy and planning for early-stage software companies and large, established leaders alike. Prior to joining Kinetica, Chad was VP of Product Marketing at Teradata, where he played a key role in repositioning Teradata during the rise of big data and the cloud to its current leadership position. Chad has also held a variety of leadership roles centered on data and analytics with Electronic Arts, Dell and FedEx. Chad is a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence in Marketing. He holds an MBA from the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas.

Robert DeMartino

Chief Revenue Officer

Robert has more than 25 years of experience building all aspects of the customer facing organization from major accounts to enterprise and mid-market sales, channels, customer success and services. Robert has worked with successful early stage startups and has built sales organizations from the ground up to well over a thousand people while diligently serving enterprises across the globe. He led domestic and international sales teams in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific region while at Sun Microsystems. Most recently he was CRO at TigerGraph and before that part of the executive team bringing new and disruptive technologies from Data and Analytics to the market with Greenplum | Pivotal and Platform up through their successful acquisitions by Dell | EMC and Workday respectively.

Elizabeth McGlauflin

Chief Customer Success Officer

Elizabeth McGlauflin has spent more than 20 years in leadership positions building and leading customer experience programs across a range of start-ups through rapidly growing public companies. She is Chief Customer Success Officer at Kinetica and, prior to that, was at Robin Systems as VP, Customer Success. Before joining Robin Systems, she was COO & VP, Customer Success at Bluescape, VP Services at C3, and held other executive positions at BDNA and Siebel Systems. She brings a wealth of experience in helping customers architect and adopt technology to drive innovation. She has worked with both cloud and on-premises solutions ranging from CRM, MDM, and IT management applications through a range of BI, analytic, IoT, collaboration and DevOps platforms and solutions. In her spare time, you can find her in an ice skating rink. She skates and often competes in Masters events around the world. She’s also a figure skating judge.

Investors

Kinetica’s investors are arguably the most experienced database experts in venture capital.

What I saw was a team of technologists that really understood that there might be a different way to attack the data ingestion and data analysis issues.

Ray Lane, GreatPoint

There is no-one who competes effectively with the Kinetica product.

Paul Madera, Meritech

We have conviction in this destructive market opportunity. It's very unique.

Gary Little, Canvas Ventures

World-Class Partners

Kinetica partners with leading hardware vendors and technology companies to integrate the benefits of vectorized analytics into the enterprise. See each vendor for recommended hardware configurations.