Kyligence builds a cloud-native analytics performance layer (Kyligence Cloud) that sits between data sources and BI tools, offering AI-augmented operations and automated data processing to deliver sub-second query response even on petabyte-scale data. The platform provides a unified semantic layer and automated aggregation to simplify deployment of interactive analytics across on-premises and cloud environments. The company says its AI-Augmented engine optimizes data for high performance and concurrency while controlling cost for cloud analytics. Kyligence serves large enterprise customers and Trusted by Global Fortune 500 companies, including UBS, which uses Kyligence to process close to a billion new records every day and update models every few hours. With the new funding the company plans to further invest in R&D to support cloud-native and machine-learning advances and to fuel global expansion and rapid customer adoption. Kyligence was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California and Shanghai, China. Kyligence builds a machine-learning powered analytics platform that automates data discovery, interactive analysis and insights at web scale. The company was founded in 2016 by CEO Luke Han and is based in Shanghai, China. Its global customer base includes China Unionpay, China Telecom, Huawei, OPPO, SAIC, CPIC and Lenovo, among others. Kyligence graduated from Microsoft Accelerator Shanghai Batch #1 in June 2017. The company will use the new funds for product research and expansion in overseas markets. The article reports a US$15M funding event described as the company’s third funding. Kyligence builds enterprise-grade OLAP and data-warehouse solutions based on the open-source Apache Kylin project, offering products such as KAP (Kyligence Analytics Platform), KyBot, Kylin-as-a-Service, Kyligence Copilot and KE5. The company originated from Apache Kylin core members and its team includes engineers and managers with backgrounds at eBay, IBM, Microsoft, Ctrip and Teradata. Kyligence has signed multiple large customers across industries including OPPO, Guotai Junan, Huatai Securities, Lenovo and China Mobile. The underlying Apache Kylin project already has over 200 enterprise users globally and Kyligence continues to contribute to and commercialize that technology. The company plans to use the new funding to increase investment in technology and product R&D, expand marketing and sales, and accelerate international expansion.

Total raised

$93M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Apr 2021