Spice Data licenses high-quality external data to Fortune 500 enterprises. Its product is not a particular dataset but rather the capability to collect, clean, and reliably supply high-quality data over time. The company operates in the restaurant industry and the broader enterprise external-data market.
Technical work centres on data collection, data cleaning, data engineering, data pipelines, and data quality. The engineering challenge is to build systems that can source data at speed, clean it to a consistent standard, and sustain that quality reliably across repeated deliveries rather than a one-off extraction.
Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Spice Data is a very small team, with all members located in the city. It was founded by Richard Kreger, the chief executive, who comes from an enterprise sales background, and Cameron Cairns, the chief technology officer, a software engineer. The company raised a seed round from Y Combinator and a small number of angel investors, deliberately keeping dilution minimal, and is profitable.
