Dan DeMers, CEO of Cinchy: Over $24 Million Raised to Build a Data Collaboration Platform That Makes Data Integration Obsolete

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Dan DeMers, CEO of Cinchy, a data collaboration platform that's raised over $24 Million in funding, about why the time has come for an alternative to rigid data contracts and the integration-heavy approach to business unit collaboration. By evolving isolated data silos into meshed products where data is well-governed white being freely available to all who need it, Cinchy gives business teams the power to execute and oversee their own desired outcomes and implement real change.

We also speak about Dan’s background between technology and big finance, what it was like transitioning from programming to management, creating a brand new category for his business, and Cinchy’s aim to make data integration all but obsolete.

Topics Discussed:

• Dan’s background in technology and big finance, transitioning from a programmer to manager, and the insights it gave him into the complexities of big enterprise.


• Cinchy’s value proposition of eliminating silos, streamlining data governance, and ultimately making data integration obsolete


• Establishing the Data Collaboration Alliance non profit to advocate for better data and collaborate with those who share the vision.


• How bold messaging helps Cinchy make an impact in a marketplace saturated with vaporware


• The importance of peer-review sites to for building credibility in a skeptical marketplace

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