Richard Quigley co-founded Ventriks back in April 2020 and has made rapid progress in building a flexible, cloud-native solution for data management targeting the energy and commodities space. Ventriks now has many customers in industries like utilities, oil & gas and so on. “Our customers tend to be currently more on the physical side of the business,” he told me. “Although we do have a couple that are more on the financial side as well.” Pretty good going for a start-up but then this is Richard’s second go around since he helped establish, and then sold, data management vendor – Datagenic – previously. “The pipeline is strong, and we are attracting new customers with our value proposition,” he said. Richard had a vision for data management that encompassed attributes like easy to use, affordable, open, ready to use and so on. It is also strong on connectivity and Richard describes it as an ‘ecosystem of connections’ that includes ETRM’s, BI tools and more as well as data flows in and out of the platform. A glance at the company’s website shows a steady stream of announcements of the addition of various data sources including EDI, EEX, Baltic Exchange Partnership, MT… continue reading