2022年12月23日

总部位于班加罗尔的数据科学和人工智能(AI)公司周五表示，通过Tredence Analytics Solutions Pvt Ltd在印度运营的Tredence Inc在私募股权巨头Advent International领投的B轮融资中筹集了1.75亿美元(约14.49亿卢比)，用于收购少数股权。在融资完成后，Advent将加入该公司董事会。去年10月，vcircle首次报道称，这家私人股本公司与总部位于美国的凯雷(Carlyle)正在就投资这家数据科学公司进行谈判。根据一份新闻声明，芝加哥太平洋创始人于2020年12月向该公司投资了3000万美元，将“继续成为Tredence的重要股东”。vcircle还报道称，CPF正在寻求出售其在大数据分析初创公司的股份。这些资金将用于加速数据驱动的增长和行业人工智能价值实现。Advent还将与初创公司合作，加快在垂直和领域专业知识、知识产权和加速器库、渠道合作伙伴开发和卓越运营方面的投资。根据声明。Tredence总部位于圣何塞和班加罗尔，由Shub Bhowmick、Sumit Mehra和Shashank Dube于2013年成立。该公司表示，其平台利用商业分析、数据科学和软件工程，为电信、制药和零售等行业提供预测和优化解决方案。“Tredence凭借深厚的领域专业知识建立了业务，使其成为该领域的类别定义领导者。 We are very excited to partner with Tredence in the next chapter of growth as they build a $500M revenue organization," said Shweta Jalan, Managing Partner at Advent International in India. Founded in 1984, Advent International is a global private equity investor having made over 400 private equity investments across 42 countries, and as of June 30, 2022, with about $96 billion in assets under management.. The firm focuses on investments in five core sectors, including business and financial services; health care; industrial; retail, consumer and leisure; and technology. Tredence competes with startups such as Mu Sigma, Fractal Analytics and Quantiphi Analytics. The data analytics sector has been seeing high investor interest. Fractal Analytics raised $360 million from PE firm TPG in January 2022, while Quantiphi Analytics raised about $20 million in a Series A fundraise round in 2019. In April, Dhiraj Rajaram, the founder of AI and data analytics business MuSigma, bought out investors Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic and over 14 angel investors, Mint reported. Tredence has doubled its talent base in the last 12 months and has over 1,800 employees across offices in San Jose, Foster City, Chicago, London, Toronto and Bengaluru. The company plans to hire another 500 employees to grow the total staff count to more than 2,100 by December, Mint reported in April. Global IT research firm Gartner forecast the AI and data science platform market to grow to more than $10 billion by 2025 at a 21.6% compound annual growth rate.