Draft:Crayon Data

Crayon Data is an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Singapore with a development center in Chennai, and Dubai.

History
The company was founded in 2012 by Suresh Shankar , Aarti Ramakrishnan, Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi , and Srikant Sastri.

Investors in the company include Ratan Tata  and Kris Gopalakrishnan.

William Bissell and Jungle Ventures have also invested in the company. Bissell had participated in a second round funding in September 2013 that raised $1.4 million. The company raised bridge funding from Mitsui in 2016. In 2018, the company raised 8.7 crore rupees in a second round of funding.

Product
The company's main product is its AI-led personalization platform called maya.ai.

In 2023, the company announced a partnership with Visa whereby Visa card issuers can offer personalized services to their customers using the AI capabilities of maya.ai.

Awards & recognition
In 2021, Crayon Data won in a partner category, Huawei Technologies Co. Spark, in a Singapore start-up competition called Slingshot. The government agency that organized the global competition is called Startup SG and the global start-up competition was started in 2017.

It features in a 2022 list of India's most promising Data Science companies. Crayon Data features in 2023 lists of India's Top 10 Business Intelligence companies and Digital Marketing agencies.

It won the Mint Startup Icon Award for 2023 in the 2nd edition of the Award. The company won the Award in the SaaS category.