Prophecy
Prophecy is an AI-powered data preparation and analysis platform used by Fortune 500 companies across finance, healthcare, retail, and technology. The company has raised $159M in funding and employs 166 people.
The growth story
Prophecy grew from 31 to 166 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $159M along the way, most recently a Series B in January 2025.
About
Prophecy sells software that helps business data teams automate and accelerate data workflows using AI. Its platform generates workflows that can be inspected, refined, and validated by non-technical users, enabling faster insights from raw data.
The company has raised $159M, including a Series B round in January 2025. Its 166 employees are primarily in engineering, which makes up 70 of its workforce.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Prophecy's largest function, accounting for 70 of its 166 employees. The company is led by a team with backgrounds in major tech firms, though specific leadership details are not provided.
The Prophecy org chart
Raj Bains (Founder CEO) leads 36 mapped leaders with 10 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 74 (+3% YoY), Information Technology 15 (0% YoY), Business Development 14 (-7% YoY), Entrepreneurship 8 (0% YoY), Sales 7 (-53% YoY), Operations 7 (-36% YoY).
Talent flow
Prophecy's employees frequently come from Microsoft, Oracle, and AppDynamics. Many alumni move to dbt Labs, Google, and Databricks. The company recruits heavily from Indian Institutes of Technology, particularly Delhi and Roorkee.
Most common previous employers of Prophecy staff: Microsoft (8), Oracle (6), AppDynamics (5), Flipkart (5), Nutanix (4), Clari Groove (4). Former Prophecy employees most often moved to dbt Labs (5), Google (4), Databricks (3), Salesforce (2), HackerRank (2), Oracle (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Prophecy mafia
Prophecy alumni have founded at least 8 companies, including Zig.ai, Koncepts, and Flywheel. These startups range in size from 2 to 13 employees.
8Lavish Mantri, was Senior Frontend Developer until 2018AYUSH NIGAM, was Founding Software Engineer until 2023Himanshu B., was Advisor until 2021Ravi Uppala, was VP of Product - Copilot until 2025Kaustubh Trivedi, was Senior Software Engineer until 2025
Donglin Niu, was Lead Machine Learning Engineer until 2023Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 42% direct, 44% search, 1% social, 0% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Prophecy: Python (Programming Language) (72), SQL (63), Java (52), C++ (51), Leadership (44), C (Programming Language) (44), Apache Spark (38), Management (37).
Where the team actually sits
Prophecy people are concentrated in Karnataka, India (55), California, United States (10), Denver Metropolitan Area (4), San Francisco Bay Area (4). 2 offices on record.
Search footprint
Prophecy attracts about 5,960 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $1K a month if bought through ads. It gained 59 ranking keywords and lost 24 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.40 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 4.00 / 5
- Senior management
- 4.00 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.50 / 5
Frequently asked
Prophecy has 166 employees as of September 2026.
Prophecy has raised $159M in total, most recently a Series B round in January 2025.
Prophecy was founded in 2017 by Raj Bains, Vikas Marwaha, Tom James, Vishal Swarankar, Maciej Szpakowski.
Raj Bains (Founder CEO) sits at the top of Prophecy's reporting structure, with 10 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Prophecy staff are Microsoft (8 people), Oracle (6 people), AppDynamics (5 people).
Former Prophecy employees most often move to dbt Labs (5), Google (4), Databricks (3).
At least 8 companies have a founder who previously worked at Prophecy, including Zig.ai, Koncepts, Flywheel.
Prophecy attracts about 5,960 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $1K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Prophecy staff are Python (Programming Language), SQL, Java, C++, Leadership.
Prophecy staff are concentrated in Karnataka, India (55), California, United States (10), Denver Metropolitan Area (4).
Prophecy has about 74 people in Engineering, up 3% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Prophecy has about 15 people in Information Technology, up 0% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 128 current and 170 former Prophecy profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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