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In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, we chat with Joe Floyd, General Partner at Emergence Capital, and Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures. Venture capital plays a pivotal role in guiding new companies and technologies to market, and our guests have had a first-row seat to the fast and furious growth and innovation happening in the industry over the past decade.Ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of Snowflake. Just two years ago, LLMs were an obscure acronym known only to those deeply immersed in AI and ML. Today, it seems like AI is everywhere. What will tomorrow bring? What do VCs look for when investing in early-stage startups in the data and AI field. What are some markers of success? What are some red flags? Listen to the podcast episode to find out.

We’re excited to welcome Kashish Gupta, co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the number-one composable customer data platform (CDP) that is revolutionizing the way marketers activate their data. From semantic layers to taking advantage of cloud-native data warehouse architectures, tune in and bring your questions for our guest and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.

We’re excited to welcome John Cosgrove and Kent Graziano to tackle the age-old topics of data management and data modeling in the new age of AI and LLMs. How can you get onboard the AI hype train and not end up in a train wreck? What if setting yourself up for success in the future depends more than ever on “old” ideas like hierarchies, semantics, models, taxonomies… in short, structure? Tune in to hear more and bring your questions for our guests and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.

We’re excited to welcome Lior Gavish, CTO and Co-founder of data observability company Monte Carlo, as we kick off the new year with the topic on everyone’s mind: Generative AI. If 2023 was the year of gen AI talk, are organizations ready to walk the walk in 2024? And if the answer is “not yet” or “maybe?” – What can data leaders and teams do to set up their business with the proper foundation for success? Listen to the full episode to find out.

What do twinkies, weight loss, and LLMs have in common? Data may just have something to do with it. For our last podcast episode of 2023, we sit down with Felipe Hoffa, Data Cloud Advocate at Snowflake, to chat about his favorite and most memorable data trends and developments of the year. Listen to the full episode to find out which topics made the cut!

Success for a data team today goes beyond technical expertise and a best-of-breed data stack; it hinges on the understanding and support of the C-Suite. In this Coffee with Coalesce episode, we’re excited to host two accomplished data leaders and executives who have mastered this art.Matthew Tischler, Chief Financial Officer of e-retailer RuffleButts and Michael Tantrum, National Sales Director at Resultant, join Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to unravel the secrets of effectively communicating with top-level executives, gaining their buy-in, and ultimately ensuring a data team’s efforts are not just understood, but genuinely appreciated and championed by the C-Suite.

We’re extremely excited to welcome Bob Muglia to Coffee with Coalesce. The former Microsoft exec and Snowflake CEO doesn’t need an introduction in the data community: a legendary leader whose work has shaped our industry, Muglia joins us to talk about his new book, The Datapreneurs. Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, and Coalesce advisor Kent Graziano.Watch the full episode to hear Muglia and Graziano's take on:how AI and LLMs will change the Modern Data Stackhow AI and LLMs will change data engineeringthe future of SQL and knowledge graphsMuglia's "you heard it here first" take on Data Meshand much more!About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the efficiency of automation, empowering its customers with increased data team productivity and insights. Based in San Francisco, Calif., Coalesce is backed by Emergence Capital, 11.2 Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Industry Ventures and supports customers worldwide. Learn more at Coalesce.io. Get a demo: https://coalesce.io/request-demo/Start free: https://coalesce.io/start-free/

On our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Frank Bell, Snowflake Evangelist and Snowflake Data Superhero, and Kent Graziano, Coalesce.io advisor and former Chief Technology Evangelist at Snowflake, to talk all things Snowflake Summit. Watch the full episode to learn how to make the most out of what we think is the best data event of the year and hear.About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the efficiency of automation, empowering its customers with increased data team productivity and insights. Based in San Francisco, Calif., Coalesce is backed by Emergence Capital, 11.2 Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Industry Ventures and supports customers worldwide. Learn more at Coalesce.io. Get a demo: https://coalesce.io/request-demo/Start free: https://coalesce.io/start-free/

Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Ethan Aaron, CEO of Portable, and Sonny Rivera, senior analytics evangelist at Thoughtspot, to discuss the hottest topic in data and business today: Generative AI. Watch the full episode to hear our guests’ hottest takes, including:Top use cases for leveraging Generative AI in dataThe 80-20 approach for integrating Generative AI into your data workflowsRisks and concernsHow will Generative AI impact roles and careers within data teams?Are analytics jobs at risk?About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the efficiency of automation, empowering its customers with increased data team productivity and insights. Based in San Francisco, Calif., Coalesce is backed by Emergence Capital, 11.2 Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Industry Ventures and supports customers worldwide. Learn more at Coalesce.io. Get a demo: https://coalesce.io/request-demo/Start free: https://coalesce.io/start-free/

Coalesce Co-Founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Chris Tabb, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of LEIT Data, and Collin Graves, Founder of Northlabs, to talk all things DataOps.Watch the full episode to learn:What is DataOps and how is it similar to–and different from–DevOps and MLOps?What problems does DataOps solve?What are the biggest pitfalls of DataOps?How can data teams set themselves up for success within the larger organization and bring value to the business?About Coalesce:Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for scale. Coalesce combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the efficiency of automation, empowering its customers with increased data team productivity and insights. Based in San Francisco, Calif., Coalesce is backed by Emergence Capital, 11.2 Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, and Industry Ventures and supports customers worldwide. Learn more at Coalesce.io. Get a demo: https://coalesce.io/request-demo/Start free: https://coalesce.io/start-free/