ThoughtSpot
Search and AI-driven analytics vendor. Privately held (no IPO found).
Facts (primary sources, thoughtspot.com press releases and SEC Form D, fetched 2026-10-08)
- Leadership: Ketan Karkhanis appointed CEO, press release datelined Mountain View, California, 2024-09-26 (ex-Salesforce, Sales Cloud EVP/GM). Ajeet Singh is quoted there as “Co-Founder and Executive Chairman”. Amit Prakash is quoted in 2014 as “co-founder and CTO”. Predecessor Sudheesh Nair was named CEO in an earlier release (date not read).
- Funding: Series B USD 30M led by Khosla Ventures (2014-06-18, Redwood City); Series D USD 145M (2018-05-08, Palo Alto HQ then); Series E USD 248M at USD 1.95B valuation (2019-08-28); Series F USD 100M at USD 4.2B valuation, led by March Capital, total funding USD 674M (2021-11-15). SEC Form D (filed 2021-11-30) records about USD 99.99M sold, first sale 2021-11-12; issuer ThoughtSpot, Inc., Delaware, San Jose address.
- Acquisitions: SeekWell (definitive agreement 2021-03-31); Diyotta (definitive agreement 2021-05-04); Mode Analytics (definitive agreement 2023-06-26, USD 200M cash and equity, completed 2023-07-19; release says ThoughtSpot then surpasses USD 150M ARR). See Mode Analytics.
- Product: ThoughtSpot and Spotter agents.
Sources
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-appoints-ketan-karkhanis-as-new-chief-executive-officer
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-raises-30-million-oversubscribed-series-b-round
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-raises-145m-oversubscribed-series-d-funding-enterprise-adoption-search-ai-driven
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-raises-248m-195b-valuation-transform-enterprises-search-ai-driven-analytics
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-raises-new-funding-at-usd4-2b-valuation
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-acquires-seekwell-to-operationalize-analytics-and-push-cloud-data-insights-to-business-apps
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-acquires-diyotta-to-expand-ecosystem-for-the-modern-analytics-cloud
- https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-acquires-mode-analytics-for-200m and …/thoughtspot-completes-200m-acquisition-of-mode-analytics
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1896285/000189628521000002/primary_doc.xml (Form D, CIK 0001896285)
- URLs were discovered from https://www.thoughtspot.com/sitemap.xml; Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThoughtSpot) was the earlier secondary source.
Open items
- Founding year 2012 and founding team (Singh, Prakash and others) are Wikipedia only: no primary page found stating the founding year.
- Earlier note said Karkhanis was appointed 2024-09-27 (Wikipedia); the company release is datelined 2024-09-26.
- Current headquarters: the 2024 and 2025 releases say Mountain View; the 2021 Form D lists San Jose.