G42 vs Dataiku

By valuation, G42 is the larger company at $10B versus $3.7B — a 2.7x difference. Size can also be measured by team: G42 employs 1000+ people while Dataiku has 1000+ employees.

Dataiku has raised $1B in disclosed funding across 3 known rounds. G42's funding history is not publicly available.

Dataiku leads with an Awaira Score of 90/100, while G42 sits at 80/100. That 10-point gap reflects real differences in funding, scale, and traction — it's not a vanity metric.

G42 was founded by Peng Xiao in 2018. Dataiku was founded by Florian Douetteau in 2013. Visit each company's profile on Awaira for a full founder biography.

G42: G42 is an Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud computing group backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family and Mubadala Investment Company, operating a portfolio of AI subsidiaries spanning cloud infrastructure, healthcare AI, smart city technology, genomics, and foundation model development. The group provides AI cloud services and applied AI solutions to government agencies and enterprises across the UAE and international markets, and has made significant investments in AI chip supply and data center infrastructure.\n\nGovernment-backed with a reported valuation exceeding $10 billion, G42 received a $1.5 billion strategic investment from Microsoft in 2024, giving Microsoft a significant stake and providing G42 with Azure cloud technology and global commercial partnerships. The group subsidiaries include CPH (cloud and AI infrastructure), Presight AI (big data analytics), and Bayanat (geospatial data), creating a vertically integrated UAE national AI platform spanning compute, data, and applications.\n\nG42 competes in the Middle East AI market while facing scrutiny from US government officials regarding its historical relationships with Huawei and Chinese technology companies, which led to restrictions on its access to advanced US AI chips. The Microsoft investment included commitments from G42 regarding technology governance and data security that addressed some of these concerns. The group position as a state-backed AI champion reflects UAE national AI strategy ambitions to establish Abu Dhabi as a global AI hub, with G42 serving as the primary vehicle for government-directed AI investment and deployment. Dataiku: Dataiku builds a collaborative data science and machine learning platform that enables data teams, business analysts, and AI engineers to build, deploy, and monitor machine learning models within a single unified environment. The Paris-founded company platform covers the full ML lifecycle from data preparation and feature engineering through model training, deployment, and governance, supporting both code-based and visual, low-code workflows to serve teams of varying technical sophistication.\n\nThe company raised over $1 billion in total funding including a $400 million Series E led by Tiger Global and ICONIQ Growth, reaching a valuation of $3.7 billion. Dataiku counts over 600 enterprise clients globally including Unilever, GE, Sanofi, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, and reports thousands of active practitioners using the platform daily. The company has offices in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney, reflecting a global enterprise sales motion that has made it one of the largest pure-play ML platform vendors in the world.\n\nDataiku competes in the data science platform market against Databricks, SAS, KNIME, and H2O.ai. Its differentiation is the breadth of user personas it serves within a single platform, allowing collaboration between data scientists, ML engineers, and business domain experts without requiring separate tools. The company is considered one of Europe most successful enterprise AI software exports, with the majority of its revenue generated outside France and a valuation that places it among the top independent AI platform companies in the world.

Dataiku got there first, launching in 2013 — that's 5 years of extra runway. G42 didn't arrive until 2018. In AI, that kind of head start means more training data, deeper customer relationships, and a bigger talent moat.

Both G42 and Dataiku report about 1000+ employees. Team size is a rough proxy for scale, but lean AI companies routinely punch above their headcount.

Yes — they're direct rivals. Both G42 and Dataiku compete in ML Platform, targeting many of the same buyers. If you're evaluating one, you should be looking at the other.