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Crayon Data on why TN is a destination of choice for fintech and talent
Source: Guidance Bureau Date: February 9, 2022 This edition of the Guidance Bureau newsletter focuses on the fintech sector with emphasis on the Tamil Nadu-Singapore association. With the recent rollout of the fintech policy of 2021, the state government has a vision...
Crayon Data is a top 10 most trusted data science company in India
Analytics Insight highlights Crayon Data as one of the Top 10 Most Trusted Data Science companies in India in 2022. Date: January 28, 2022 Source: Analytics Insight The rise of data science, along with Big Data and AI, has been instrumental as enterprises navigate...
Beware of fraudulent job offers
We have observed that misleading communication is being spread through certain social media channels about our hiring process. Crayon Data is a purely merit-based employer. Some unscrupulous agencies are alluring job aspirants with employment...
Integrate deeply, so customers find it difficult to pull the plug: Suresh Shankar on Churn.FM podcast
Crayon Data's founder and CEO Suresh Shankar was recently on the Churn.FM podcast. Hosted by Andrew Michael, CEO of Avrio, they talk about ways to prevent churn with enterprise customers. Suresh shares how he connects the dots looking back going from an account...
Crayon Data in the HFS Hot Vendors Compendium 2018-2021
Date: October 31, 2021 Source: HFS Research The HFS Hot Vendors are an exclusive group of emerging players, each with a differentiated value proposition for the HFS OneOffice. HFS analysts speak with numerous exciting startups and emerging players and designate a...
Use consumption data to enhance personalization: Suresh Shankar in HKET
Date: October 5, 2021 Source: HKET Providing services through digital channels is a designated action by companies, and using data on hand to provide consumers with personalized options will help improve business performance. Companies that provide related...
Suresh Shankar’s guide to company building on ContraMinds podcast
Date: October 5 Source: ContraMinds Crayon Data's founder and CEO Suresh Shankar appeared on Episode 17 of the ContraMinds podcast. In an hour-long conversation, Suresh talks to host S Swaminathan on a wide range of topics, including Introducing startup...
Suresh Shankar’s leadership lessons in Forbes India
Entrepreneurs must have the persistence gene, believes Crayon Data's founder and CEO, Suresh Shankar. In Forbes India's Startup Fridays podcast, he shared traits that will help founders stay grounded during the highs and help them sail through the lows. He also...
Suresh Shankar on Forbes India’s Startup Fridays podcast
Date: August 27 Source: Forbes India "A founder needs conviction and resilience when things are low." Founder and CEO of Crayon Data, Suresh Shankar, joined Harichandan Arakali on Forbes India's podcast last week. On this episode of Startup Fridays, Suresh spoke about...
Crayon Data among 101 most innovative Singapore-based AI companies
Date: August 27, 2021 Source: Futurology This article showcases our top picks for the best Singapore based Artificial Intelligence companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Artificial Intelligence industry, but are...
Crayon Data is a top Singapore business entering the African market
Date: August 23, 2021 Source: The Business Times Africa is by no means a new market for Singapore. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Singapore's investments into Africa rose from US$17 billion to US$20 billion from 2015 to 2019,...
Crayon Data brings AI-led personalization platform, maya.ai, to South Africa
Crayon Data's partnership with Falcorp Technologies aims to reach the banking and telecommunications sector in the region Singapore/Chennai August 2021 – Crayon Data, a leading artificial intelligence and big data company based in Singapore, has announced their...
Crayon Data’s maya.ai featured in Forbes India
Crayon Data’s flagship platform, maya.ai, features in the latest edition of Forbes India. As part of their AI special issue, technology editor Harichandan Arakali put maya.ai in the spotlight as a prime example of AI in customer analytics. Date: Aug 13, 2021 Source:...
Crayon Data on going beyond the Asian market after SLINGSHOT 2020
Date: August 9, 2021 Source: South China Morning Post Slingshot, a global start-up competition established in 2017 by a dedicated Singaporean government agency called Startup SG, is launching its fourth edition this year – the Slingshot 2021 Deeptech Startup Pitching...
Crayon Data’s maya.ai on Forbes India Daily Tech podcast
From where will you order dinner tonight? Have you picked a series to binge watch yet? Are you still scrolling through shopping portals deciding what shoes to buy? These decisions don't have to be so difficult. Crayon Data's Vidhyashankar Sriram and Priyanshu Mishra...
Crayon Data named innovative data mining startup to follow in 2021
Date: July 13, 2021 Source: Startup Pill 100 Innovative Data Mining Startups Worth A Follow In 2021 This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Data Mining startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Data...
Crayon Data named leading predictive analysis company in Singapore
Date: July 13, 2021 Source: Startup Pill 32 Best Predictive Analytics Startups in Singapore of 2021 This article showcases our top picks for the best Singapore based Predictive Analytics companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to...
Crayon Data’s maya.ai features in Ecosystm Insights
Crayon Data’s flagship platform, maya.ai, features in the latest edition of Ecosystm Insights. In a piece titled ‘Personalization – The New Digital Imperative in Financial Services’, analyst Gerald Mackenzie puts the AI-led personalization platform in the...
Crayon Data to demo maya.ai at FinovateAsia 2021
FinovateAsia is a digital fintech event that showcases the insights and solutions that are driving Asian fintech forward. 500+ senior decision makers (with over half from financial institutions) and 50+ speakers will be part of the...
Crayon Data is one of top 10 data analytics startups redefining the Indian tech space
Date: May 20th, 2021 Source: IndustryWired These top 10 Indian analytics startups are to look out for this year According to a research report, the global big data market is expected to reach USD229.4 billion by 2025. This is no surprise as the use of...
Improving business climate in India a draw for Singapore firms, but challenges remain
Date: 13th April, 2021 Source: The Straits Times Crayon Data's founder and CEO, Suresh Shankar was recently quoted by The Straits Times, discussing Crayon's plan to ramp up its presence over the next four years. This includes hiring people in sales and business...
Crayon Data named a top company to work in for aspiring data scientists
Date: 6th April, 2021 Source: India Today Data science industry becoming more propitious field for young minds: All you need to know The jobs related to data are growing across the globe. Here all you need to know from the expert Dr. Sanjeev Sharma Dean Academics,...
Srikant Sastri, co-founder Crayon Data in conversation with The Hindu
Date: 3rd April, 2021 Source: The Hindu How a group of 20 people from diverse backgrounds created an affordable, world-class ventilator during the lockdown In their book, Srikant Sastri and Amitabha Bandyopadhyay describe how the Nocca Robotics team created the...
Srikant Sastri, co-founder Crayon Data in conversation with ThePrint: Off The Cuff
Date: 7th April, 2021 Source: ThePrint [vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/RCWSKiSjuzg" title="Off The Cuff with Srikant Sastri, Crayon Data and Dr Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, IIT Kanpur"][/vc_column][/vc_row] In March 2020, when Covid-19 hit India, there...
WiDS Ashoka 2021: a conversation on data science for social good
Date: April 7th, 2020 Earlier this week, Crayon’s Sr. Data Scientist Dr U Kanimozhi spoke at Women in Data Science (WiDS) Ashoka 2021, a conference organized by Ashoka University in collaboration with WiDs Stanford University. The virtual event kicked off with a...
Driven By Pressure: Suresh Shankar at TEDx Huawei
The story of Crayon Data and founder and CEO Suresh Shankar's journey as a two-time entrepreneur is one of pressure and persistence. On April 7, he was invited to share his experiences at Huawei's 2021 TEDx Conference:...
Crayon Data showcases maya.ai at Plug and Play APAC Tech Showcase
Date: 24th March, 2021 Source: PR Newswire Crayon Data will showcase their flagship AI-personalization platform maya.ai at the Tech Showcase in Manila, organized by Plug and Play APAC, under the Enterprise Singapore's Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Manila program...
Interview with Suresh Shankar on Empirics Asia
Date: July 28th, 2021 Source: Empirics Asia Suresh creates Netflix- and Spotify-like Experiences for Customers in only 7 Days What’s your story? I help enterprises understand customer preferences to serve them better. What’s interesting is that my career has been a...
Aarti Ramakrishnan, Crayon Data awarded Woman Entrepreneur Award by Rotary Club of Madras East (RCME)
Date: March 12th, 2021 Source: News Today Chennai: Aarti Ramakrishnan, co-founder and Chief of Operations of Crayon Data, was recently awarded the Woman Entrepreneur Award from the Rotary Club of Madras East (RCME). Every year on the occasion of International Women's...
Crayon Data to participate in E-Business Mission to Latin America 2021
Date: 22nd February to 19th March Big data and AI company Crayon Data is one of several Singapore tech companies to participate in the ongoing virtual mission, E-Business Mission to Latin America. The virtual mission is organized by the Latin American Chamber of...
Crayon Data is a Top 10 start-up of FinTech Accelerator Program 2021 by FinTech Saudi
February 2021: Crayon Data was one of 10 FinTech start-ups to pitch their flagship product to potential investors, the media, and the wider business community at FinTech Saudi's Virtual Demo Day. The Demo Day came at the end of a 3-month long FinTech Accelerator...
Suresh Shankar in conversation with Elets Banking and Finance on the rise of FinTech 2021
Suresh Shankar, CEO and founder of Crayon Data, was recently interviewed by Elets Banking and Finance. In the conversation, Suresh discusses the need for relevance in financial tech, Crayon's role in the growing FinTech ecosystem, and future plans. Read the full...
Crayon Data declared Top 10 winner of SLINGSHOT 2020 @ Singapore Fintech Festival
December 2020: Crayon Data has emerged as one of the top 10 winners of SLINGSHOT 2020 at the Singapore Fintech Festival. They were also declared one of the top 2 winners in the Digital Solutions, Consumer Products and Services category. The competition was tough,...
Crayon’s flagship platform maya.ai wins Huawei Spark – Global Startup Competition
December 2020: Crayon Data's flagship platform maya.ai was declared the first-ever champion of the Huawei Spark - Global Startup Competition. It’s been a journey of three months and three rounds of intense competition with over 200+ startups from around the world. The...
Suresh Shankar on the power of personalization in a post-COVID world @ Big Data APAC Virtual Summit
December 2020: CEO and co-founder of Crayon Data, Suresh Shankar delivered an insightful talk on "The power of personalization in a post-COVID world" at the Big Data APAC Virtual Summit 2020. Key highlights from the talk 85% of customers today demand personalized...
Aarti Ramakrishnan named Top 10 Most Impactful Women in Technology 2020
Aarti Ramakrishnan, Co-Founder and Chief of Operations at Crayon Data, has been named one of the Top 10 Most Impactful Women in Technology in 2020 by Analytics Insights. This volume features top female leaders making significant contributions to the world of data...
Crayon Data’s Relevance Quotient Report 2020 Explains the Trends and Patterns of Personalized Banking
Singapore/Chennai: Crayon Data, a fast-growing AI and Big Data company, announced the launch of its Relevant Quotient Report to help banks in their personalization journeys. Due to COVID-19, new patterns in consumer purchase trends have put banks and merchants in a...
Crayon Data’s employee productivity app is a finalist for Gartner Eye on Innovation Award EMEA 2020
Gartner, Inc. has announced the winners of the 2020 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for financial services in EMEA. The award recognizes innovative use of digital technology-enabled capabilities, products or services to highlight “best-in-class” financial industry...
Companies now realise the importance of digital transformation
IBT: What were the major disruptions faced by Crayon Data due to the onset of COVID-19 in its global business operations? How have you managed these disruptions, and how are you navigating ongoing challenges vis-à-vis the pandemic? Suresh Shankar: Crayon’s core value...
Crayon Data takes its AI-led personalization maya.ai to Latin America through a partnership with Stefanini
Singapore/Chennai May 2020 – Crayon Data, a leading artificial intelligence and big data company based in Singapore announced an unprecedented partnership with Stefanini, a pioneer in digital solutions in Latin America. The Brazilian multinational has acquired the...
Crayon Data to demo maya.ai at FinovateEurope 2020
Finovate Europe is one of the largest FinTech conference in the world. More than 1,200 senior attendees, 150 speakers and 60 demoing companies will be in attendance. Crayon Data a singapore based AI and big data company will exhibit and demo their flagship product,...
Crayon Data at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2019
Last week was a whirlwind of meetings, networking sessions and all that’s new in the financial technology community. The recently concluded Singapore Fintech Festival, in Singapore (obviously) had a lot to offer. The weeklong affair saw attendees from some...
Crayon Data is busy redrawing battle lines
It is in the business of helping its clients milk the data they already have and turn it into marketing drives customised to the individual - the new normal in reaching consumers. Each time a customer makes a purchase based on personalised options offered by a...
31 innovative global start-ups to participate in the third edition of DIFC FinTech Hive's 2019 accelerator programme
Finalists join the 2019 cohort, from across the world including start-ups from Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa Dubai: In line with the continuous growth and development of the Dubai International Financial Centre’s financial innovation ecosystem, the DIFC...
Hyderabad: From sleepy town to fertile ground
The Telangana government's proactive measures focussed on building ecosystems is transforming Hyderabad into a hub for technology startups that could one day rival Bengaluru. Chaitanya Peddi, Jayant Paleti and Rohit Chennamaneni co-founded Darwinbox in 2015 in...
Generating predictive data is big but challenging business for Ratan Tata-backed Crayon Data
by Kristie Neo, Deal Street Asia This article was originally published on Deal Street Asia on 23.11.2018. If there's one thing that's true - data lies. Data lies a lot. In "Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data and What the Internet can tell us about who we really are",...
Crayon Data backed by Ratan Tata, Gopalakrishnan to raise Series B fund
This news article was published by Business Standard on October 22. Crayon Data, a big data analysis company in which veteran industrialist Ratan Tata and Infosys Co-Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan invested in, is planning to raise Series B round of funding to the tune of...
Crayon Data saw 3X growth last year, expects similar growth in future
Six-year-old artificial intelligence based data personalization firm Crayon Data said it had grown 3x last year and expected this hyper growth to continue over the next few years. “The growth has been in both revenue and the number of clients, and we expect to double...
Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan invests in big data startup Crayon Data
Appeared on The Economic Times BENGALURU: Singapore and Chennai-based big data company Crayon Data has received an undisclosed investment from InfosysBSE 3.06 % cofounder Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan. The investment is part of Crayon's Series A2 round of funding....