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Soumyadeb Mitra
Founder & CEO at RudderStack
- Data
- Entrepreneur
- 📍New York, New York
Soumyadeb Mitra is the Founder and CEO of RudderStack, the Warehouse Native Customer Data Platform (CDP). RudderStack helps data leaders drive revenue by making it easy to collect, unify and activate customer data for every team and tool. With a strong background in software engineering and data analytics, Soumyadeb is passionate about helping data leaders and teams make data valuable in their companies.
Before founding RudderStack in 2018, Soumyadeb worked in various technical roles at leading technology companies, where he gained valuable experience in big data, machine learning, and cloud computing. While Head of Machine Learning at 8×8 (Nasdaq: EGHT), a unified communication as a service company, he found existing CDP solutions unable to meet his requirements for security, reliability, and scalability. He left to start RudderStack to solve that critical roadblock for companies looking to deliver key projects like real-time personalization and recommendations.
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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Soumyadeb Mitra
Founder & CEO at RudderStack
- 📍New York, New York
- Data
- Entrepreneur
Soumyadeb Mitra is the Founder and CEO of RudderStack, the Warehouse Native Customer Data Platform (CDP). RudderStack helps data leaders drive revenue by making it easy to collect, unify and activate customer data for every team and tool. With a strong background in software engineering and data analytics, Soumyadeb is passionate about helping data leaders and teams make data valuable in their companies.
Before founding RudderStack in 2018, Soumyadeb worked in various technical roles at leading technology companies, where he gained valuable experience in big data, machine learning, and cloud computing. While Head of Machine Learning at 8×8 (Nasdaq: EGHT), a unified communication as a service company, he found existing CDP solutions unable to meet his requirements for security, reliability, and scalability. He left to start RudderStack to solve that critical roadblock for companies looking to deliver key projects like real-time personalization and recommendations.
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“RudderStack, a platform that focuses on helping businesses build their customer data platforms to improve their analytics and marketing efforts, today announced that it has raised a $56 million Series B round led by Insight Partners, with previous investors Kleiner Perkins and S28 Capital also participating. In total, RudderStack, which was founded in 2019, has raised $82 million.”
“In the past, many data-specific roles were broken out by department: Head of Analytics, Head of Data Science, Head of Data Engineering, etc. Increasingly, though, data-specific roles are entering the C-suite and have presence in the boardroom. Over the last five years, the term Chief Data Officer has become popular. Searching LinkedIn for the term produces over 10,000 results (with many more if we include variations).”
“The goal for the next two years is to grow from an early-stage start-up into a mature organization. It is not just about me or personal development, it’s the entire team having to grow to the next level to reach these business goals. Thankfully, the leadership team is very entrepreneurial and joined the team with a proactive mindset and a strong understanding of the necessary disciplines to develop start-up companies.”
“Soumyadeb is the founder and CEO of RudderStack, a company which he started in June 2019. Soumyadeb is a serial entrepreneur, RudderStack being his 3rd startup. He sold his previous startup, a B2B ad-tech platform called MarianaIQ, to 8×8 where he spent a year building customer data pipelines. His challenges collecting and processing customer data at enterprise scale at 8×8 inspired him to start RudderStack.”
“Customer data is like digital oil — it fuels better business decisions and helps companies thrive. But making sense of the cacophony of customer data that flows through a company can be a challenge for all but the best of data scientists. And as businesses across the spectrum have been forced to embrace digital transformation due to the global pandemic, this has shone a greater spotlight on the need to grow sales by better understanding who they’re selling to.”
Timeline
Jun 2019 - Present
RudderStack
Founder & CEO
Apr 2018 - May 2019
8×8
Sr. Director, Machine Learning
Dec 2013 - Mar 2018
Mariana
Co Founder, CTO
Jul 2008 - Dec 2011
Data Domain
Principal Engineer/Architect
Ask me
| Why is it so hard to build a customer 360? |
| What is the data activation lifecycle? |
| Why should data teams own customer data management? |
| What does the future of the Customer Data Platform look like? |
| What is RudderStack? |
| What lessons have you learned as a technical founder scaling a company like RudderStack? |
| How will generative AI change the way companies use customer data? |
| Why should the customer data stack be built around the cloud data warehouse? |
