Year: 2022

NEW YORK CITY, New York — November 16, 2022 — Fractal, a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to entities including Fortune 500® companies, today announced the launch of Asper.ai. Building on the company’s existing AI capabilities, Asper.ai is a purpose-built interconnected AI solution for consumer goods, manufacturing, and retail.

“Asper.ai brings together some of the advanced data science capabilities and a team of experienced industry personnel to deliver a product that finally produces the efficiency and results that consumer goods and retail brands have long been waiting for.” said Andy Walter, Ex-SVP and CIO, Procter & Gamble.

Businesses are as dynamic and complex as they have ever been in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent digital transformation surge, meaning AI technology has become more important than ever. However, immense fragmentation exists across the AI ecosystem in retail and CPG. Asper.ai tackles these silos by providing an end-to-end AI product, unifying demand planning, inventory optimization and positioning and strategic pricing and promotion.

“Business success today is defined by how quickly and seamlessly brands are able to make decisions,” said Mohit Agarwal, CEO, Asper.ai. “Unfortunately, brands suffer from debilitating AI fragmentation and a lack of interconnectedness. Asper.ai looks to solve these challenges by driving interconnectedness through its autonomous decisioning product.”

“The opportunity for AI to unlock efficiency and drive growth is massive,” said Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder & CEO, Fractal. “At Fractal, we are constantly looking for ways to help consumer brands tap into new revenue and growth opportunities and Asper.ai is the next step on the journey.”

With budgets still incredibly tight in the wake of turbulent financial markets, Asper.ai’s demand planning and pricing and promotion modules – made available for limited test release – have already been shown to help businesses unlock growth and were also able to free existing manual bandwidth by using the Asper.ai product.

Asper.ai also unlocks additional flexibility for the businesses to avoid getting stuck in a linear AI maturity curve. With full scale implementation of Asper.ai, businesses can unlock AI for improved accuracy and continuous learning, platform for speed and agility and process transformation for improved value focus.

For more information on Asper.ai, please visit www.asper.ai . To find out more about Fractal, please visit www.fractal.ai.

About Asper.ai

Asper.ai, a Fractal company, enables interconnected and automated decisions at the intersection of demand and supply. By changing the way decisions are made, Asper.ai unlocks growth and transforms organizations into adaptive intelligent enterprises. Through its autonomous decisioning engine, Asper.ai works with data to not just provide proactive decisions but to provide interconnected and automated decisions that help customers reach their potential.

About Fractal

Fractal is one of the most prominent players in the Artificial Intelligence space. Fractal’s vision 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 that provides automated interpretation of radiology exams like X-rays and CT scans, Crux Intelligence that enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions without having to rely on a business analyst for insights,, Theremin.ai to identify investment opportunities that humans and traditional techniques may not detect, Eugenie.ai to identify, explore and leverage anomalies and patterns, Asper.ai to drive next-generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management, Senseforth.ai to automate customer interactions across digital touchpoints and Analytics Vidhya, an edtech platform for AI, engineering and design.

Fractal currently has close to 4800 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, Singapore, and Australia. Fractal has been recognized as ‘Great Workplace’ and as ‘India’s Best Workplaces for Women’ in the top 100 (large) category 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 Inc., a leader in Analytics & AI Services Specialists Peak Matrix 2021 by Everest Group and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner Inc. For more information, visit fractal.ai

NEW YORK/ MUMBAI, 17 October, 2022 – Fractal, a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced that it has been named in Top -100 ‘Best Workplaces™ for Women in 2022’ in India by the Great Place to Work® Institute, for the third consecutive year.

Fractal earned this recognition through rigorous assessment conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute. The assessment awards organizations that excel in crafting practices for employees and proactively acting on feedback to create a High Trust Culture.

Fractal is committed to building a culture of inclusivity & diversity at the workplace and is actively working towards supporting women in tech. Fractal’s flagship program – ‘ReBoot’, a gender agnostic program aimed at people who have been on a career break to come back into the workforce, has been a catalyst especially for women to develop new technical and professional skills, work closely with industry experts, and expand their network.

Fractal also has a designated Global Diversity Director supported by a dedicated Diversity and Inclusion Council which aids the organisation in bolstering gender equity in the workplace. Additional referral bonuses for hiring women, lactorium rooms for female employees, and talent acquisition from women-only campuses, are some of the other unique practices at Fractal aimed at achieving gender balance and creating a positive work environment for female employees.

As a result of these initiatives, Fractal recorded approximately 72% growth in its women employees from last year, and they comprise 22% of the company’s leadership. Fractal currently stands at 32% in terms of gender diversity and aims to reach 40% by the year 2025.

“Receiving this recognition for the third time in a row is a testament to Fractal’s consistent efforts towards ensuring an equitable and supportive environment for every Fractalite,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman at Fractal. “While this is a moment to celebrate, it also emboldens our commitment to continue making strides towards diversity and inclusion.”

“We are thrilled to be among India’s best workplaces for women. Our goal is to create an ecosystem where everyone feels empowered to steer their career basis their growing capabilities. By easing access to learning opportunities, cross-skilling, and up-skilling, we have Fractal women leading by example and inspiring others in their wake.”, said Rohini Singh, Chief People Officer at Fractal. “We will continue to build a safe, diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for all.”

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 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, Samya.ai to drive next-generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management, Senseforth.ai to automate customer interactions at scale to grow top-line and bottom-line and Analytics Vidhya is the largest Analytics and Data Science community offering industry-focused training programs.

Fractal has close to 4000 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, a leader in Analytics & AI Services Specialists Peak Matrix 2021 by Everest Group and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information, visit fractal.ai

Fractal’s acquisition of Neal Analytics will deepen Fractal’s capability to scale AI on Microsoft’s multi cloud ecosystems for its Fortune 500® clients and further expand its presence in North America.

NEW YORK Jan 11, 2022 – Fractal, (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to Fortune 500® companies, today announced the acquisition of Neal Analytics, a cloud, data, engineering and AI Microsoft Gold consulting partner, for an undisclosed amount.

Neal Analytics strengthens Fractal’s AI engineering capabilities & cloud-first offerings on Microsoft’s multi cloud ecosystems and enables clients to scale AI and power decisions; It also strengthens Fractal’s presence in the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and India.

Founded in 2011, Neal Analytics is a Microsoft Gold Consulting Partner supporting its cross-industry clients, such as PepsiCo and Microsoft, in their data-driven transformation initiatives. Neal Analytics’ 200+ team brings deep expertise on the Azure stack – across data science, AI & ML, IoT, Edge Computing, BI, application development, migration and modernization, and automation. Neal Analytics also has partnerships with Intel, Nvidia, and Databricks.

Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder and Group Chief Executive, Fractal, “We are excited about partnering with Dylan and his talented team at Neal Analytics. They have built a great client-centric, people-oriented culture, and have an impressive track record of solving and scaling AI engineering challenges, especially on the Microsoft platform, for marquee clients. This partnership will accelerate our ability to power data-driven decisions end-to-end for our Fortune® 500 sized clients.”

Dylan Dias, CEO, Neal Analytics, said, “This is the successful culmination of a thorough, year-long process. Our goals were to find the best long-term home for Neal’s 200+ employees, a platform to scale faster, and the ability to play a bigger role in this fast-accelerating space. Fractal was a clear choice. Our culture and vision are 100% aligned. This is an exciting opportunity to empower our people and work alongside like-minded practitioners to transform businesses with cloud, data, and AI. It will enable Neal Analytics and Fractal to grow and achieve more together.”

Satish Raman, Chief Strategy Officer, Fractal, said, “Hyperscale cloud infrastructures are enabling organizations to be more agile and improve their business performance to better serve clients. Neal’s award-winning experts in Microsoft’s Azure and cloud technologies have been helping organizations to securely migrate, modernize and accelerate their business transformation within the cloud for more than a decade. We’re delighted that this acquisition of Neal will further strengthen our rapidly growing analytics, AI, and data engineering business in North America.”

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 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, Samya.ai to drive next-generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management, Senseforth.ai to automate customer interactions at scale to grow top-line and bottom-line and Analytics Vidhya is the largest Analytics and Data Science community offering industry-focused training programs.

Fractal has more than 3500 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, a leader in Analytics & AI Services Specialists Peak Matrix 2021 by Everest Group and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner.
For more information, visit fractal.ai

About Neal Analytics

Neal Analytics is a cloud, data, and AI Microsoft Gold Consulting Partner supporting data-driven transformation initiatives from data strategy to solution design, architecture, development, operationalization, and support.

Neal leverages Agile methodologies and flexible engagement models to deliver measurable customer value with a focus on right sized and pragmatic approaches towards digital transformation.

Our offers include Production Yield Optimization to optimize manufacturing processes with AI-powered Autonomous Systems, StockView for Retail to reduce and predict out-of-stock items with AI-powered gap detection at the edge, and Intelligent Order Sequencing to optimize production and reduce customer wait times.

Neal Analytics is headquartered in Bellevue, WA, with 200+ employees across the US, Canada, and India. A well-established Microsoft Partner, Neal has earned 7 gold competencies, 4 advanced specializations, and 4 Partner of Year nominations and awards. Those are a testament to our deep expertise in cloud, data, and AI technologies. For more information, visit nealanalytics.com

SAN FRANCISCO, MUMBAI, and NEW YORK – JANUARY 5, 2022 – TPG, a leading global alternative asset firm, and Fractal (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced that they have signed a definitive investment agreement. TPG is investing [US$ 360 million (about INR 2700 crores)] in Fractal through TPG Capital Asia, the firm’s Asia-focused private equity platform, in a transaction that includes a combination of primary investment and secondary share purchase from Funds advised by Apax, who will remain a major shareholder following the transaction. The transaction is expected to close by the first quarter of 2022. Additional terms were not disclosed.

“We continue to see great momentum in how clients are leveraging AI to accelerate digital transformation. Fractal is building a great workplace and an innovative culture that’s driving significant client outcomes through our ‘user focused, decision-backwards’ approach to solving problems,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder & Group CEO, Fractal. “TPG’s capabilities across all our markets and their proven success in building and supporting top AI providers is the perfect complement to the partnership we’ve enjoyed with Apax, whose insight and expertise have been instrumental in accelerating our growth.”

Pranay Agrawal, Co-founder & CEO, Fractal, said: “The demand for AI is surging across the enterprise. Our AI solutions and products, along with our globally recognized team of experts, empower these organizations to realize and maximize their full potential. Apax has been a great partner to us as we have worked to grow our business, providing valuable insights from their tech experience, operational leadership, and access to their unique network. As we continue to build upon this foundation, the investment from TPG will accelerate our ability to scale and meet this rising demand globally.”

“In the growing market for data and analytics services, Fractal continues to stand out as one of the most well-established, differentiated providers and a clear leader in AI and advanced analytics,” said Puneet Bhatia, Co-Managing Partner of TPG Capital Asia. “The quality of Fractal’s offering has enabled them to build a deep and loyal client -base, made up of some of the world’s largest and most respected companies. Srikanth and Pranay have built a highly respected and market leading company, and we are excited to partner with this proven management team to continue to enhance Fractal’s organic and strategic growth.”

Rohan Haldea, Partner at Apax and Shashank Singh, Partner at Apax, commented: “Since partnering with Fractal, we have been able to combine the Company’s strong value proposition and unique culture with Apax’s deep tech expertise to drive the business forward. We are proud of the progress the Company has made to date alongside Srikanth and Pranay, establishing Fractal as one of the leading players in the rapidly-evolving analytics and AI space, and look forward to partnering with TPG and Fractal in this next chapter for the business.”

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 has more than 3,500 employees across 16 global locations, including the United States, UK, Ukraine, India, Singapore, and Australia.

As part of the transaction, TPG’s Puneet Bhatia and Vivek Mohan will join Fractal’s board of directors. All current directors including Gavin Patterson, Rohan Haldea, Shashank Singh and Gulu Mirchandani will continue to serve on the company’s board. Both TPG and APAX will be minority shareholders in the company.

TPG is a leading investor in software and enterprise technology with extensive experience partnering with the world’s top AI solutions, business analytics, and data processing companies. Select current and past investments include C3 AI, Digital.ai, LLamasoft, MX, Noodle Analytics, and Onfido.

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 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, Samya.ai to drive next-generation Enterprise Revenue Growth Management, Senseforth.ai to automate customer interactions at scale to grow top-line and bottom-line and Analytics Vidhya is the largest Analytics and Data Science community offering industry-focused training programs.

Fractal has more than 3500 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, a leader in Analytics & AI Services Specialists Peak Matrix 2021 by Everest Group and recognized as an “Honorable Vendor” in 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for data & analytics by Gartner. For more information, visit fractal.ai

About TPG

TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in San Francisco in 1992 with $109 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams in 12 offices globally. TPG invests across five multi-product platforms: Capital, Growth, Impact, Real Estate, and Market

Solutions. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its clients while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio. For more information, visit www.tpg.com or @TPG on Twitter.

About Apax

Apax Partners LLP (“Apax”) is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For nearly 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses. The firm has raised and advised funds with aggregate commitments of more than $60 billion. The Apax Funds invest in companies across four global sectors of Healthcare, Tech, Services, and Internet/Consumer. These funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. For further information about Apax, please visit www.apax.com.

Apax is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.