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KX, a global leader in real-time, time-series and AI-driven analytics, today proudly announces a new chapter of growth and innovation through a strategic acquisition by TA Associates (“TA”), a leading global private equity firm. Under the agreement, TA has acquired a majority stake in FD Technologies, KX’s parent company, with existing shareholders retaining a minority interest.

KX, the leading high-performance analytical database for the AI era, today announced the general availability of its first production-grade Agentic AI Blueprint: the AI Banker Agent. Built with NVIDIA AI and specifically tailored for sell-side global markets banks, this collaboration delivers the first-of-its-kind agentic AI designed to transform how banks operate in fast-moving trading environments.

KX, the leading high-performance analytical database for the AI era, today emerges as an independent software company following the sale of First Derivative by its parent company FD Technologies in October 2024. By merging temporal intelligence with ultra-fast data processing and analytics, KX is poised to lead the market as AI-driven decisions power the speed, agility and adaptability that will determine an organization's success in the real-time economy.

KX, the leading high-performance analytical database for the AI era, and SiXworks, an IBM company, a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specializing in digital experimentation in high security environments, today announced a collaboration to bring a secure, high-performance data analytics and visualization toolset to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) and other defense sectors.

KX, the leading high-performance analytical database for the AI era, has unveiled upgrades to PyKX, its Python-first interface for kdb+. PyKX 3.0’s hybrid architecture combines the speed and scale of kdb+ with seamless integration to Python’s machine learning (ML) and deep learning libraries, enabling advanced AI-driven algorithms and analytics workflows. Since May 2023, when PyKX became available as an open-source offering, the library has achieved over 400,000 downloads across its distribution channels, underscoring PyKX’s ability to rapidly expand access to the company’s advanced analytics capabilities. The library serves as an essential tool for developers to leverage the benefits of kdb+ and its powerful q programming language for real-time streaming and large-scale historical data-science use cases.

KX, a global leader in vector-based and time-series data management, has added thousands of members within the KX Community, emphasizing the growing need for developer friendly education and tools that address high-frequency and large-volume data challenges across structured and unstructured data. Spearheaded by KX’s developer advocacy program, the community increases year-to-year since its inception in January 2022. This growth reflects KX’s commitment to supporting both its long-standing Capital Markets customers and the wider developer community, empowering developers to solve complex, real-world problems in building AI and analytics applications. To complement this initiative, KX has launched KXperts, a developer advocacy program that enables members to deepen their involvement and engage in thought leadership, collaboration and innovation.

KX, a global leader in vector-based and time-series data management, has announced the integration of its vector database KDB.AI with LlamaIndex, an open-source framework that streamlines the ingestion, storage, and retrieval of datasets for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. This collaboration empowers developers to augment Large Language Models (LLMs) with contextually accurate information, and in turn, provide more precise and relevant responses to end user queries.

KX, a global leader in high performance analytical databases and vector-based data management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Clint Maddox as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Maddox brings nearly three decades of experience in scaling high-growth enterprise software businesses, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies. At KX, Maddox will be responsible for managing go-to-market strategy and execution for its world-wide sales and customer success organization.

KX, a global leader in high performance analytical databases and vector-based data management, has announced substantial improvements to kdb+, the foundation of the company’s ability to bring time-oriented data insights and generative AI capabilities to the world’s leading enterprises.

According to KX, a worldwide leader in real-time streaming analytics, the United States could realize the largest overall impact on revenue increase – potentially $2.3 trillion – from leveraging real-time data analytics. The manufacturing industry alone could benefit from nearly $1 trillion after implementing real-time data, and revenues within the finance and insurance sector could increase by nearly $637 million.

As digital technologies continue to disrupt and transform every industry on the planet, over half of US students (58%) believe that coding skills are either equally or more valuable than foreign language skills for their career prospects.

KX today announced that it has added Google BigQuery integration to KX Insights™, its cloud-first real-time streaming analytics platform. Customers can now gain powerful real-time insights from streaming data through KX, enriched with context from historical data sitting in Google Cloud’s highly scalable multi-cloud data warehouse.

KX, a worldwide leader in real-time streaming analytics, has today announced enhancements to KX Flow, its white-label foreign exchange trading platform. The enhancements help financial institutions better manage market risk, with a new automated capability to optimize position and hedging strategies. Additional pricing and connectivity improvements further optimize pricing streams and enhance flexibility.

KX, a worldwide leader in real-time streaming analytics, today announced that it has joined the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP), which helps customers migrate ISV workloads to AWS to achieve their business goals and accelerate their cloud journey.

KX, a worldwide leader in real-time streaming analytics, has today announced the integration of an electronic communications (E-Comms) capability with its award -winning KX Surveillance solution.

Independent research released today by KX shows that organizations across every major industry sector are prioritizing time-to-value from their data, as firms look to operationalize continuous intelligence through real-time analytics.

KX, a worldwide leader of in-memory, time-series databases and streaming analytics, has announced it has become a Microsoft Partner. The two companies are working together to build a long-term technical and go-to-market roadmap to enable companies - with an initial focus on the financial services and Industrial IoT sectors - to rapidly scale-up their real-time analytics and decision-making capabilities.