Year: 2021

NEW YORK, December 16, 2021: Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced the appointment of Manish Tiwari as Chief Information Officer. In his role, Manish will be responsible for strategizing and execution of digital transformation for the company and oversee IT operations, cyber security & risk management.

Manish is a veteran from the Indian Navy where he set up the Information Security & Incident Response organization, including the formulation of Policy Frameworks, Security Audits, Product Testing, Cyber Forensics and Risk Management. In his second innings in the corporate sector, he has been with Microsoft India as the Chief Information Security Advisor and recently with Bharti Airtel as CISO, and set up ‘Airtel Secure for Business’, a Managed Security Services initiative.

“With years in industry successfully leading global IT and operations functions, I am delighted to have Manish join us. His proven experience will ensure our IT function will drive innovation and efficiency that will help us move forward,” said Pranay Agrawal, CEO, Fractal. “His knowledge of successfully evangelizing security best practices will also help us immensely in today’s time where the level of sophistication, volume and speed of new threats is growing.”

“I am delighted to be a part of the Fractal family and look forward to an exciting journey ahead as the company enters a new phase of innovation and expansion”, said Manish. “My immediate goal is to ensure that the company’s Information risk stance is well positioned to withstand emerging cyber threats and accelerate digital transformation.”

Manish is a certified Lead Auditor, Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) & a Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), holds a Diploma in Geomatic Sciences from C-DAC and underwent a Business Management program from Management Development Institute, Gurugram, India.”

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Crux Intelligence to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management.

Fractal has more than 3,000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, Singapore, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2021, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai

NEW YORK CITY, New York — December 09, 2021 — Final Mile, the pioneer in driving behavior change, integrating Behavioral Science and Human Centered Design to solve critical business and developmental sector challenges, today announced the launch of its South Africa headquarters in Johannesburg. A subsidiary of Fractal, (fractal.ai), Final Mile tackles complex behavioral challenges in public health, financial empowerment, and other issues involving human decisions by creating behavioral science solutions.

With its new office, Final Mile will invest in hiring local leadership & highly qualified talent pool and extend community engagement in the Southern African region to further drive the sustainability and long-term impact of its public health efforts. The company has already delivered great results on significantly important issues in various African nations including understanding HIV prevention in high-risk adolescent girls and young women in South Africa, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision related research in Zambia, Zimbabwe & Kenya and more.

Led by Dr. Sangiwe Moyo, Final’s Mile South Africa HQ will be pivotal in helping the company build upon its current efforts in the fight against HIV, AIDS and COVID-19 in particular. Dr Sangiwe was a Deputy Director at Population Services International (PSI) where he was managing the implementation of STAR (HIV self-testing initiative) to scale up HIV self-testing interventions which are key to addressing the HIV epidemic. He holds a PhD in Public Health and has worked extensively with major funders such as USAID, CDC and Unitaid.

“South Africa is on the frontlines of some of the world’s most complex health challenges,” said Dr. Moyo. “Through this launch, we look forward to supporting the tremendous on-the-ground efforts being taken to fight the most challenging health threats by further collaborating with providers, patients and support workers with the knowledge and insights they need to better understand some of the underlying issues that are underpinning these public health challenges.”

“We have to build teams close to the communities we serve”, said Ram Prasad, Co-founder and CEO, Final Mile. “South Africa is the natural choice given the availability of talent and access to several countries in the region. We are excited about building a full-fledged team that can engage with funders, implementers, Governments, and other key stakeholders.”

For more information on Final Mile, please visit www.thefinalmile.com.

About Final Mile

Final Mile is one of the first research & design strategy consultancy organization that has developed a cross-disciplinary practice built on precepts of Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Human-Centered Design. Final Mile addresses behavioral challenges in business and social contexts by systematically understanding the decision process and developing design interventions that influence behavior. It is an integrated research, strategy and design process deployed in order to explain and bridge the gap between Awareness-Action, and Intent-Action and successfully executed projects across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Final Mile’s pioneering practice and success has been featured extensively in Indian and International media, in publications like BusinessWeek, Forbes India, Boston Globe, Economist, WSJ Mint, BBC, Times of India among others. In addition, Final Mile’s work in public health has been published extensively in leading journals.

Final Mile has offices in Johannesburg, New York, and Mumbai with a diverse set of people from specialties such as Behavioral & Decision Science, Communication & Information Design, Communication strategy, Architecture, Product Design, Interactive design.

NEW YORK, December 02, 2021: Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced the appointment of Sangeetha Chandru as Chief Practice Officer for Retail. Based out of Fractal’s global headquarters in New York, Sangeetha will oversee global operations for the retail practice and help drive market growth with particular focus on developing the right capabilities and value to clients.

Sangeetha brings over two decades of experience to this role having served in progressive leadership positions with some notable global retail brands in both industry and consulting. She has deep expertise in leading and managing large scale retail transformations by leveraging insights to drive long term value creation. In the past 10 years, she has served on the executive leadership team of Sobeys as well as her most recent role as Partner, Deloitte Canada where she was their National Operations Transformation and Retail Consulting Leader.

“Sangeetha’s longtime retail transformation experience will help take Fractal’s retail practice to the next level of growth,” said Pranay Agrawal, co-founder & CEO, Fractal. “I could not be more excited to add her to our leadership team as we continue to expand to meet the needs of our retail clients.”

“I am so incredibly excited to join Fractal at such a pivotal time for the retail industry. I am confident that the value we deliver through our capabilities will drive sustained growth for our clients,” said Sangeetha.

Sangeetha holds a BA and MA from the University of Madras as well as a MS from Claremont Graduate University.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Crux Intelligence to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management.

Fractal has more than 3,000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, Singapore, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2021, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai

Fractal features in ‘Top 100 – Large Companies’ category for the second consecutive year, in addition to being a Certified Great Place to Work® for five consecutive years including 2021

MUMBAI, September 30, 2021: Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced that it has been recognized among India’s Top 100 Best Workplaces for Women in 2021 by Great Place To Work® Institute.

Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the winners using rigorous methodology and confidential employee feedback. Companies were only considered if they are Great Place to Work-Certified™. Further, organizations were then studied basis Gender Parity in Experience & Representation across levels to arrive at the top-100 list of India’s Best Workplaces for Women among 712 organizations. This award recognizes Fractal’s efforts in building a highly diverse and inclusive culture.

“We want to foster and nurture a workplace culture built on diversity and inclusion, to allow Fractalites to bring their whole authentic selves to work,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman at Fractal. “We believe that only by doing so, we can unlock the full potential of human capabilities and let the “free minds” fly higher to be innovative and create better value for our clients.”

To achieve its goals, Fractal constituted a Diversity and Inclusion Council in 2020 with the objective of defining a D&I charter focused on providing equitable opportunities to all, irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, or gender. Some of the immediate focus areas include hiring from women-only campuses, pay parity across genders, conducting ‘I am remarkable’ workshop for women encouraging them to speak openly about their accomplishments, building mentorship programs to nurture women leaders & ‘Mothers returning to work’ initiative to successfully transition mothers returning from maternity break to work.

“We are excited to be recognized for creating one of the best workplaces for women,” said Rohini Singh, Chief People Officer at Fractal. “This recognition motivates and energizes us to continue to strive towards our audacious goals on diversity and inclusion. We will continue our commitment to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all can succeed and grow.”

Speaking of her experience, Usha Viriyala, Client Partner – CPG at Fractal, said, “It is indeed a moment of pride that Fractal has been recognised as a Great Place for Women to Work. At Fractal, a woman’s various life stages and professional journey are seamlessly blended to provide her a fulfilling career. Fractal embraces a mosaic of diverse thoughts and personalities to create an ecosystem that provides equal opportunity not only for women but for all. We are truly grateful for this recognition.”

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Crux Intelligence to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management.

Fractal has more than 3000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2021, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Analytics Vidhya (analyticsvidhya.com), the world’s largest analytics and data science community of a million registered users, announced today that it has secured $5.5 million (INR 40 Crore) investment from Fractal (fractal.ai), as it forges ahead in bringing industry co-created, application-oriented learning programs in data science, machine learning and data engineering.

“We are super excited about our partnership with Fractal. This investment helps us scale our offerings, bring high-quality industry-oriented content, and offer superior value to our community. The partnership propels us further in our mission to create next generation data professionals across the globe. Together with Fractal, we aim to train half a million full-stack AI professionals in 5 years,” said Kunal Jain, Founder & CEO of Analytics Vidhya.

Globally, there has been a sharp rise in demand for AI and Engineering professionals, especially in the areas of machine learning and data engineering. According to the Dice 2020 Tech Job Report, data engineering was the fastest-growing career option in technology in 2019.

“Covid-19 and the associated sharp increase in the need for AI-led digital transformation has exacerbated the existing talent scarcity in machine learning, data science and analytical problem solving,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive and Vice Chairman, Fractal. “Kunal and the team at Analytics Vidhya have built an active, engaged community of data science professionals and enthusiasts. Our partnership will meet the world’s demand for high-quality industry-ready AI talent.”

“Companies are facing a severe shortage of industry-ready talent who can solve real-world AI problems. In partnership with Analytics Vidhya, we are building a new talent supply-chain for Fractal and for the broader AI community,” said Natwar Mall, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Fractal.

About Analytics Vidhya

Analytics Vidhya is India’s largest Analytics and Data Science community. With a million registered users, they offer industry-focused training programs and conduct hackathons to help their client companies recruit top data science and engineering talent from their community. For more information, visit analyticsvidhya.com

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Crux Intelligence to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management.

Fractal has more than 3,000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, Singapore, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2021, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai

NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced that it has been named a Leader among Customer Analytics Service Providers (CASPs) in the recent Forrester Wave™: Customer Analytics Service Providers, Q3 2021 report, published by the independent market research company, Forrester Research.

“We aspire to help our clients create a billion-dollar value by powering every human decision in the enterprise with AI, engineering and design,” said Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO, Fractal. “This report validates our leadership in turning insight into action and recognizes Fractal as a “Responsible AI” company with its AI ethics committee and framework.”

“Fractal Analytics drives impact with multidimensional customer analytics solutions.” – The Forrester Wave™: Customer Analytics Service Providers, Q3 2021. “In terms of capabilities, Fractal has long been a customer analytics juggernaut. Its Customer Genomics product provides next-best-experience personalization capabilities to clients, and its ability to apply emerging techniques such as reinforcement learning is unparalleled. The company also excels at turning insights into action, using its design practice to embed insights seamlessly into user workflows. It is one of only two providers in this evaluation with an AI ethics committee and framework.” The report concludes by saying, “Enterprises facing big, hairy challenges such as “How do I acquire and retain customers in the wake of a global pandemic?” should consider Fractal.” Download the full report.

Forrester Research assessed each organization in the report on thirty different criteria for three categories, including Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence. Within the three categories, Fractal has received the highest possible score in 16 out of 30 criteria. This included the criteria of AI Ethics, Insights to action, Services Vision, Execution Roadmap, Planned Enhancements, Partner Ecosystem & Employee Experience.

This report is among the recent analyst recognition of Fractal’s AI and Analytics capabilities. Fractal was also named:

(1) A Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Computer Vision Consultancies, Q2 2020.

(2) A Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Specialized Insights Service Providers, Q2 2020 and,

(3) Honorable Vendor in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Service Providers 2021

Download the full The Forrester Wave™: Customer Analytics Service Providers, Q3 2021 report here.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Crux Intelligence to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management.

Fractal has more than 2,800 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2021, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Conversational AI leader Senseforth.ai today announced a $14 million investment from Fractal (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies. This investment will help Senseforth.ai scale and expand its footprint across Fractal’s clients globally. This investment also strengthens Fractal’s conversational AI offerings as it advances on its mission to power every human decision in the enterprise.

Senseforth.ai’s patented and award winning zero-code platform A.ware automates customer experience across digital touchpoints for global enterprises. It is estimated that by 2022, 30% of customer experiences will be handled by conversational AI, up from 3% in 2017. A.ware makes it easy to build, train, deploy, and scale conversational AI solutions to drive revenue, reduce costs and increase operational efficiency.

Shridhar Marri, CEO and Co-Founder of Senseforth, said, “This strategic investment creates a new growth blueprint for Senseforth.ai. We are thrilled to deliver on our vision “to make technology humanlike”, enabling continuous Human-AI interaction, transforming complex business processes.” He added, “We can now scale talent, accelerate growth, make more investments in R&D, and create incredible value for our clients.”

Announcing the strategic investment, Fractal’s Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive and Vice Chairman, Srikanth Velamakanni said, “Senseforth.ai’s founders Shridhar, Krishna and Ritesh have built a great team and a robust platform that’s deployed at scale with marquee clients like HDFC Bank. Senseforth’s technology is ahead of the competition, especially as evidenced by their performance benchmark on the leaderboard of Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) 2.0.” Srikanth added, “We are excited to partner with the Senseforth.ai team to contribute to their next phase of growth.”

“We are inspired by Senseforth.ai’s work with the government of India to remove technology barriers in accessing citizen services for 700 million internet users through conversational AI. We are delighted to partner with Senseforth and expand conversational AI solutions to our clients,” said Pranay Agrawal, Fractal’s Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Krishna Kadiri, Chief AI Officer and Co-Founder of Senseforth, said, “Senseforth has a robust R&D and innovation culture and has already made its mark in the global ML benchmarks. This investment will help us enhance our deep learning capabilities and embed advanced cutting-edge research into A.ware.”

Don Vadakan, Chief Sales Officer at Fractal, said, “Senseforth’s industry agnostic, multi-experience AI platform will drive next-generation digital solutions. We are excited to deliver powerful use cases across industries for both large and mid-size enterprises with A.ware from Senseforth.”

Ritesh Radhakrishnan, CTO, and Co-Founder of Senseforth, said, “At Senseforth.ai, we have built A.ware, one of the most powerful and comprehensive Conversational AI Platforms in the market today. A.ware is already automating billions of conversations for enterprises across the world. This investment will help us further strengthen our technology foundation and scale our platform and products to become the undisputed market leader in the Conversational AI space.”

About Senseforth.ai

Senseforth.ai is a Conversational AI platform that enables automated human-like conversations at scale, between organizations and people. Founded with a vision to “make technology humanlike”, Senseforth.ai helps businesses acquire, engage and assist customers using AI-powered bots. As a preferred partner of choice for enterprises in North America, Europe and APAC, Senseforth.ai has implemented 100+ solutions that handle millions of conversations every month and has been recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Conversational AI Platforms in 2020 by Gartner, For more information, visit www.senseforth.ai

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the leading providers of AI and analytics globally to the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise by bringing AI, engineering, and design to solve some of the world’s toughest problems.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai, to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions; Crux Intelligence, to assist CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions; Theremin.ai, to improve investment decisions; Eugenie.ai, to find anomalies in high-velocity data; and Samya.ai to drive next generation enterprise revenue growth management.

Fractal has more than 2,800 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, Singapore and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated among India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute; featured as a leader in the Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2021, Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020 & Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020, by Forrester Research; and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced that it has achieved Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 compliance. With this compliance, Fractal meets the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria for internal controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

“Information security is vital to Fractal’s clients and partners. SOC 2 Type 2 compliance testifies that Fractal’s internal security controls provide a high degree of assurance around operational effectiveness of systems and services that process client’s data,” said Pranay Agrawal, Co-Founder & CEO, Fractal. “We’re excited to be one of the few global AI and Analytics providers with SOC 2 Type 2 certification and will continue to invest to further strengthen data privacy, protection, and security for our clients.”

“We are proud to be accredited with SOC2 Type 2 compliance,” said Rasesh Shah, Chief Information Officer, Fractal. “Data security and privacy is paramount to our mission of powering every human decision in the enterprise and SOC certification gives confidence to our clients that we have adequate internal controls in place and how well the controls are operating. Successful completion of this audit proves our commitment to deliver best-in-class AI solutions while safeguarding client data at each stage.”

Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), System Organization Control (SOC2) is a technical auditing process used to validate the systems and controls designed by an organization to secure its client data. SOC2 reports are conducted by independent auditors, who measure the availability, security, and integrity of an organization’s unique data processing systems, and ultimately determine whether effective safeguards and controls are in place. It is considered one of the highest standards for security accreditation.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Crux Intelligence to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management

Fractal has more than 2,300 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

NEW YORK, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (www.fractal.ai), a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decision-making in Fortune 500 companies, today announced that Dave Botkin, former Senior Director – Marketing Analytics at Google, has joined the company as a strategic advisor. Dave will help support Fractal’s rapid growth by providing strategic inputs, deepen engagement with marquee clients & expand its reach in the Bay Area.

“We are delighted to have Dave join Fractal as our strategic advisor,” said Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder & CEO, Fractal. “As we look to our future growth trajectory, it is critical that our company receives timely insights and guidance from industry experts familiar not only with the AI and analytics industry at large, but also have a deep understanding of the market we operate in.”

“I’m really excited to be joining one of the fastest growing companies in the world of AI and analytics,” said Dave Botkin. “From AI to behavioral science & Design, Fractal’s technology is not only leading the way but completely redefining the way these spaces operate and think about the future, and I can’t wait to help contribute to the company’s impressive growth trajectory.”

A former physicist turned data scientist, Dave Botkin built and ran analytics and data engineering teams in startups and Fortune 50 companies until “retiring” in 2018 to focus on Analytics Consulting and Advisory services as Dave Botkin Consulting, LLC. Prior to DBC, Dave was Sr. Director of Marketing Analytics in Google’s Ads business, where his teams evaluated marketing program effectiveness and developed machine-learning models to route leads to sales. Before that, Dave led analytics practice at Square, was VP of Analytics/BI at Disney Interactive Games and served as SVP Audience Analytics at CBS Interactive.

Dave received his BA and Ph.D. (Physics) degrees from UC Berkeley and his MBA degree from the Haas School of Business.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management.

Fractal has more than 2,300 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

NEW YORK, June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, June 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced the appointment of Ashwath Bhat as Chief Financial Officer. Based out of global headquarters in New York, Ashwath will oversee the company’s strategic finance, accounting, business intelligence, treasury and legal functions.

“We are delighted to welcome Ashwath to Fractal,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice Chairman of Fractal. “Ashwath has a great track record of driving operational excellence and profitable growth in global & diversified businesses. In Ashwath, we have found a passionate leader with a problem-solving mindset, well aligned with Fractal’s core values.”

“Fractal is an exciting company that enjoys the trust of world’s most admired brands,” said Ashwath. “I look forward to working with the team and execute on the company’s priorities, accelerate growth and maximize stakeholder value,” he added.

Ashwath brings over two decades of global corporate finance and operations experience with reputed organizations such as GE, IBM and Nielsen. Over the last 10 years, he served in a variety of positions within Nielsen, including as the SVP of Finance Operations, CFO for Gracenote and VP of Corporate FP&A.

Ashwath is a Chartered Accountant from India and a graduate of GE’s Finance Management Program.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data & Samya.ai to drive next generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management

Fractal has more than 2,300 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

– The acquisition will help Fortune 500 companies unlock revenue growth opportunities and reduce operational inefficiencies with AI

NEW YORK, June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced the acquisition of Samya.ai, one of the fastest-growing Revenue Growth Management (RGM) companies, for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition strengthens Fractal’s RGM offerings and expands its reach across industries to help its clients make #betterdecisons to drive sustainable growth.

Companies face significant operational blind spots and value leakage in the form of lost sales, reduced margins, low ROI on promotional spend, missed growth opportunities, and excess inventories. It is estimated that CPG companies alone lose revenue growth opportunities of up to 9% and carry an excess inventory of 10%-15% due to these operational complexities and inefficiencies.

Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fractal, said, “We are excited about the possibilities that lie ahead of us with Samya. Supporting our mission to power every human decision in the enterprise, this acquisition will expand our footprint and enable us to create greater value to our clients across industries.” He added, “The founders, Shailendra, Deepinder, and Pavan, have built a world-class AI/ML engineering product and a great team. I am thrilled to welcome the team into Fractal.”

“Samya’s RGM offering leverages deep learning, reinforcement learning, and other advanced probabilistic methods to deliver 10X advantage over traditional approaches. We are excited about joining Fractal. Our combined expertise will enable us to help Fortune 500 clients drive sustainable revenue growth,” said the founders, Shailendra Singh (CEO), Deepinder Dhingra (Chief Product Officer), and Pavan Palety (Chief Customer Officer).

Fractal has been powering decisions in 100+ Fortune 500 companies with AI, engineering, and design. Fractal’s Ideas2Business program currently includes over eight software solution platforms and four AI companies. Samya.ai will be the fifth company under this program. The AI companies include 1) Qure.ai, which uses AI & deep learning techniques to provide an automated interpretation of radiology scans like X-rays, CTs, and MRI scans. Last year, Qure.ai received FDA® approval for one of its products and raised $16 million from Sequoia Capital and Mass Mutual Ventures, 2) Theremin.ai deploys deep reinforcement learning algorithms to identify unique alpha investment opportunities in financial markets. Last year, Theremin.ai raised funds from OLMO Capital, 3) Cuddle.ai, an AI-powered decision co-pilot that helps surface insights from data through nudges and predictive inputs and helps business leaders make better and quicker decisions every day, and 4) Eugenie.ai, which has two products that enable businesses to spot, explore and exploit anomalies and patterns that have a bottom-line impact.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data.

Fractal has more than 2,300 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.

About Samya

Samya.ai is the only Revenue Growth AI company in the CPG space operating at the intersection of demand and supply operations. Samya.AI brings the power of deep learning, probabilistic machine learning and reinforcement learning approaches together with deep domain expertise to help CPG companies recapture revenue growth potential. Samya.AI is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with its offices in London, UK, and leading product and R&D center in Bangalore, India.

NEW YORK, May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decisions in Fortune 500 companies, today announced its participation in CB Insights Tech Market: Digitizing P&C Insurance taking place on May 13-14th 2021. Fractal’s Chief Practice Officer for Insurance and Technology, Sankar Narayanan, will be speaking at “Tech Showcase: Computer Vision for Underwriting & Claims“. The event will bring together over 400 top executives and insiders for discussions and presentations on some of the most pressing needs and innovative solutions.

The talk will feature Fractal’s Image and Video Analytics (IVA) solution and demonstrate how it enables #betterdecisions for P&C Insurers. IVA is Fractal’s deep-learning based solution that is used by insurers to analyze images/videos/complex documents at scale, during underwriting and claims stages. During underwriting, it is used to assess value and estimate coverage with precision and during claims it is used to assess severity and estimate settlement amount, at speed. IVA has been ranked as one of the differentiated products in The Forrester Wave on Computer Vision Consultancies, 2020. More details on the solution can be found here.

IVA reduces inefficiencies and limitations that Insurers are facing today as it requires significantly lesser training data (one of the biggest problems associated with computer vision solutions), has anywhere deployment to allow “Ambient Intelligence”/ “Embedded AI” so that the algorithms can scale cross embedded systems (devices/IoT systems) / cloud and hybrid architecture and incorporates two patents (a) patent for hierarchical classifiers of DL architecture and (b) self-supervised learning for identifying patterns.

“Improved effectiveness and increased efficiency lead to Better Decisions”, said Sankar Narayanan, Chief Practice Officer – Insurance, Banking & Technology, Fractal. “Insurers are dealing with many impeding factors such as legacy technology, data inconsistencies, and process friction in addition to the external pressures caused by the prevailing interest rate environment and nimbler competitors. Computer Vision techniques offer great promise in leveraging alternative data sources to reduce underwriting and claims cycle time, and digitize parts of the process, leading to lower expense ratios and better customer experience. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss these challenges and solutions alongside so many great minds at this year’s CB Insights Tech Market”.

For more information on Fractal, please visit: www.fractal.ai

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500 companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data.

Fractal has more than 2000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Computer Vision New Wave™ 2020, Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 magic quadrant for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit: www.fractal.ai

NEW YORK, April 15, 2021 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) — Fractal and Google Cloud are partnering to deliver AI and analytics offerings in the cloud to drive scalability, efficiency, and innovation for clients.

NEW YORK, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decisions in Fortune 500 companies, today announced a partnership with Google Cloud. With this partnership, Fractal will leverage Google Cloud and its advanced capabilities to deliver ‘Cloud Analytics and AI’ services, solutions, and products to Fortune 500 companies enabling them to become ‘Cloud Ready’ and address their digital transformation needs.

“We are delighted to announce this partnership with Google Cloud. As a Google Cloud partner, we aim to bring to market, innovative solutions that combine our native AI and analytics capabilities with Google Cloud’s scale and capabilities,” said Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Fractal. “We are confident that this partnership will enable fast and smooth adoption of AI for enterprises and help them in their digital transformation journey.”

“Enterprises are increasingly leveraging AI capabilities, including those from Google Cloud and from our partners like Fractal, to help them make decisions efficiently and effectively,” said Nirav Sheth, Director, ISV & Partner Sales at Google Cloud. “We’re pleased to partner with Fractal and to deliver their capabilities in analytics and AI at global scale on Google Cloud.”

“Cloud Integration is a top priority for organizations looking to focus on delivering mission critical services and innovation with agility,” said Satish Raman, Chief Strategy Officer, Fractal. “As a Google Cloud partner, we now have access to an advanced cloud platform and are able to leverage our expertise on cloud in order to facilitate accelerated digital transformation for our clients.”

“Fractal’s Google Cloud Practice will enable our Fortune 500 clients with ‘Cloud Analytics & AI’ solutions, products & services that are customized for CPG, Retail, TMT, HLS and FSI industries to – deliver increased revenue & profitability, accelerate innovation & market adoption and drive new revenue & user growth” added Miten Mehta, Global Alliance Officer, Google Cloud, Fractal.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500 companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data.

Fractal has more than 2000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work(R) Institute, featured as a leader in the Computer Vision New Wave(TM) 2020, Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave(TM) 2020, Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave(TM) 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 magic quadrant for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai

NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal ( https://fractal.ai ), a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decision-making in Fortune 500 companies, today announced general availability of Fractal’s artificial intelligence (AI) solutions – Cuddle.ai, Concordia and Foresient – on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this announcement, Fractal further strengthens its Cloud AI strategy — to allow businesses to accelerate digital transformation using AI and analytics on the cloud. AWS’ infrastructure provides access to compute, storage & services resources that will allow Fractal’s solutions to churn & process huge data sets faster, enabling rapid deployments with high availability.

“We’re excited to offer Fractal’s AI solutions on AWS platform. Today, companies are increasingly looking to move their analytics workloads to the cloud to attain higher efficiency & productivity with cost savings,” said Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fractal. “With our deepening relationship with AWS, we strive to enable businesses across industries to derive greater value from their data and ultimately drive better business outcomes.”

“By leveraging the power of AWS, we can help our clients accelerate their AI powered digital journey on the cloud with highly scalable and agile deployment of our software solutions and products to generate real time business insights and decision-making capabilities,” said Satish Raman, Chief Strategy Officer at Fractal. “Clients now have an opportunity to make informed and high-quality decisions on-the-go and we look forward to continue working with AWS to solve complex business problems by leveraging innovative AI, machine learning cloud engineering and data management solutions on AWS.”

The three solutions made available on AWS are – Cuddle.ai, Concordia and Foresient. Cuddle.ai – an Augmented Analytics platform that uses AI to reduce friction between business users and their data, helping accelerate the consumption of data and analytics. Concordia – a scalable machine learning-based data unification and harmonization platform specially designed to handle large volume and complexity of data. And Foresient is Fractal’s state-of-the-art AI empowered platform to forecast at high accuracy, scale and speed.

While running on AWS, clients will benefit from scalability, faster time to execution, strong technical support & high availability features. Additionally, AWS offers connectivity with high- performance cloud data warehouses like Amazon Redshift.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data.

Fractal has more than 2,000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai

NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced the acquisition of Zerogons, for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition will help strengthen Fractal’s Cloud AI business and accelerate the ‘data to decisions’ journey for its Fortune 500® clients.

Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fractal, said, “Sandeep and Divya have built a world class AI/ML engineering platform and team at Zerogons. Cloud is the home of AI, and we are excited to partner with Zerogons to operationalize AI for our clients through cloud and engineering.”

Ajoy Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Fractal, said, “We are delighted to welcome the capable team at Zerogons to Fractal. This acquisition strengthens our Cloud Engineering and AI offerings and helps us deliver high velocity and value in our continuing journey to power every human decision in the enterprise.”

Sandeep Mehta, Co-founder, Zerogons said, “We are happy to become a part of one of the leading AI companies in the world. Fractal shares our vision of building the most innovative AI & ML solutions for the industry. With enterprises increasingly demanding cloud based AI solutions to solve both, their immediate challenges and longer term growth objectives, we are well placed as a combined entity to accelerate our clients’ digital journey.”

Divya Rakesh, Co-founder, Zerogons said, “We are excited to join a market leader in the AI space. We see tremendous synergies in our joint vision for AI, and together we will help our clients in realizing their short-term and long-term digital transformation objectives”.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world’s most admired Fortune 500® companies.

Fractal’s products include Qure.ai to assist radiologists in making better diagnostic decisions, Cuddle.ai to assists CEOs, and senior executives make better tactical and strategic decisions, Theremin.ai to improve investment decisions, and Eugenie.ai to find anomalies in high-velocity data.

Fractal has more than 2,000 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, and Australia. Fractal has consistently been rated as India’s best companies to work for, by The Great Place to Work® Institute, featured as a leader in the Specialized Insights Service Providers Wave™ 2020, Computer Vision Consultancies Wave™ 2020 & Customer Analytics Service Providers Wave™ 2019 by Forrester Research, and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2020 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information visit fractal.ai.