GigaSpaces

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GigaSpaces Technologies Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Software
Founded2000
FoundersNati Shalom
Headquarters,
US
Key people
Adi Paz (CEO)
Ira Palti (Executive Chairman)
Products
  • XAP
  • Smart DIH
  • eRAG
Website www.gigaspaces.com

GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. is a private American software company founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York City. The company develops software for real-time and AI data solutions, including eRAG, an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for natural-language querying and semantic reasoning of structured operational data.

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Its other products include SmartDIH and XAP, used in in-memory computing and low-latency processing across industries such as finance, retail and transportation. [1] [2] [3] [4]

History

GigaSpaces was founded in 2000 by Nati Shalom. The company initially focused on distributed computing and later expanded into in-memory technologies. [1] [5] [ failed verification ] [2] [6] In 2012, GigaSpaces introduced the open-source platform-as-a-service project Cloudify. [1] In 2016, it launched the real-time analytics platform InsightEdge. [1] [7] [8] Cloudify was spun off as an independent company in 2017. [1] [9] [10]

In 2020, the company launched managed services on Google Cloud Platform and raised US$12 million in funding led by Fortissimo Capital, bringing the total investment to US$47 million. [4] [11] [12]

In May 2020, GigaSpaces announced $12 million financing led by Fortissimo Capital. [13]

In 2021, GigaSpaces introduced the Smart Digital Integration Hub (DIH) and secured an additional US$13.5 million in growth funding. [1] [11]

In 2022, the company announced strategic partnerships with IBM and Wix to build a digital innovation platform based on DIH. [14] [15]

In 2024, GigaSpaces launched eRAG, a retrieval-augmented GenAI tool that delivers the context of structured data to LLMs, at IBM Think. [16] [17] [18] [ failed verification ]

References

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  8. "GigaSpaces Launches the Next Generation Apache Spark Distribution – BRM" . Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  9. "GigaSpaces Spins Off Cloudify, Its Open Source Cloud Orchestration Uni". Archived from the original on 2025-02-11. Retrieved 2025-12-10.[ dead link ]
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  11. 1 2 "Leumi Partners invests in GigaSpaces, alongside existing shareholders (Claridge Israel, BRM and Fortissimo)". www.claridgeil.com. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
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  13. "GigaSpaces Announces $12 Million Financing Led by Fortissimo Capital to Accelerate Rapid Expansion". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2020-05-06.[ dead link ]
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