Dataiku

Dataiku is a French-American software company that provides an enterprise platform for the full lifecycle of analytics and AI projects, spanning data preparation, model development, deployment, monitoring and governance. The company positions the product as an orchestration layer that sits above data platforms, cloud infrastructure and AI services, allowing organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized oversight. Its stated formula combines three elements: shared workflows for business and technical teams ("people"), connection of data, ML, LLMs and agents as one system across any infrastructure ("orchestration"), and visibility into compliance, cost and risk ("governance").

The platform includes visual and code-based tooling so that both technical and non-technical users can work on the same projects. Capabilities described by the company include 40+ data connectors, 100+ visual data transformers, AutoML for prediction, clustering, forecasting, causal ML and computer vision, 30+ chart types with dashboards and workspaces, web app frameworks (Streamlit, Dash, Gradio, Voilà), batch and real-time scoring, a Deployer for managing project and model versions across dev/test/prod, and drift detection and model performance comparison. For generative AI, Dataiku offers the LLM Mesh, an API gateway layer between LLM providers and end-user applications, plus LLM Guard Services for cost oversight, PII handling, toxicity detection and forbidden-term controls, and retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search. Prepackaged "Dataiku Solutions" starter projects target common industry and horizontal use cases.

The original product, Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS), was announced in 2014 and supported predictive modeling for business applications, with an emphasis on accessibility for users unfamiliar with programming languages such as Python. In June 2021 the company released Dataiku Online, a fully managed version aimed at smaller companies such as high-growth startups. In 2026 Dataiku introduced Kiji Inspector, an open-source framework integrated with NVIDIA Nemotron intended to increase transparency of enterprise AI agents in regulated settings such as fintech and energy.

Founding story

Dataiku was founded on February 14, 2013 in Paris, France by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol and Marc Batty, around the premise of democratizing data science rather than restricting it to a small group of specialists. The company established a US presence in New York City in 2015.

Business model

Dataiku licenses enterprise software deployed on customers' infrastructure of choice, including on-premises, hybrid and a fully managed SaaS cloud offering (Dataiku Cloud). A 14-day free managed cloud trial (limited to a space with 2 users, 1 API service, 4 CPUs and 32 GiB of elastic compute, and excluding Govern and advanced LLM Mesh) and a downloadable Free Edition for Mac, Linux and Windows serve as entry points, with sales engagement for on-premises or hybrid deployments. The company reports $350M in ARR across 750+ customers.

Recurring software subscription revenue from enterprise customers; the company reports $350M in ARR. Forbes reported $150 million in revenue for 2021.

Traction

The company reports $350M in ARR, 750+ customers worldwide, and 1,200+ employees (elsewhere stated as over 1,250 people across 13 offices and remote locations). Named customers and case studies include Novartis, Johnson & Johnson (650+ employees using Dataiku in the Vision team), Standard Chartered Bank, Toyota, Michelin (50+ manufacturing sites), SLB, Roche, SoftBank, OHRA, Mitsubishi Electric and Aviva. At the time of its 2018 Series C the company had over 200 customers and about 200 employees, with customers including General Electric, Sephora, Unilever, KUKA, FOX and BNP Paribas.

Latest developments

Dataiku states it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Platforms for Data Science and ML for the fifth consecutive year. In 2026 it introduced Kiji Inspector, an open-source framework integrated with NVIDIA Nemotron for AI agent transparency in regulated industries, and published a Harris Poll-based Global AI Confessions CEO report covering 900 CEOs across eight markets (the company site cites 80% of CEOs saying their role is at risk absent measurable AI gains by end of 2026; Wikipedia cites 78%, up from 74% in a comparable 2025 poll). Current product messaging centers on agentic AI, unified governance, modernized analytics and enterprise-scale ML. The company also promotes Dataiku Cobuild.