Yhat, Inc. (acquired by Alteryx NYSE:AYX)

Yhat (pronounced Y-hat) is a data science and decision management platform that lets data scientists create, deploy and integrate real-time insights into any business application without IT. Using the Yhat platform, data scientists can use their preferred scientific tools (e.g. R and Python) to develop analytical projects in the cloud collaboratively and then deploy them as highly scalable real-time decision making APIs for use in customer- or employee-facing apps. Yhat was founded in 2013. The founding team previously held positions at OnDeck, comScore, MITRE, Cloudera, Blackboard, AppNexus, and GuideSpark.