HEAVY.AI is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in providing advanced analytics solutions for businesses and government organizations. Their primary focus lies in analyzing large-scale location and time-based data to uncover insights.
HEAVY.AI's roots can be traced back to research conducted at Harvard and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). HEAVY.AI is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures.
CARTO, in contrast to HEAVY.AI, scales on demand with all data stored within your existing cloud data warehouse. Avoiding the cost of expensive GPU server-based infrastructures and wasting time on data transfer or complex ETL.