Sift spent the week underscoring both its expanding role in high-performance physical AI infrastructure and a fast-evolving product suite for complex data analysis. The company highlighted recent leadership changes, new office expansion, and product enhancements aimed at accelerating telemetry and test-data workflows for demanding engineering customers.
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Sift named co-founder Austin Spiegel as CEO, while fellow co-founder Karthik Gollapudi shifts focus to long-term product vision and industry outreach. The firm has grown to about 80 employees and added senior leaders from Meta, SpaceX, Anduril, Grafana, Palantir, Applied Intuition, and Riot Games, bolstering engineering, product, sales, design, and marketing capabilities.
To support growth, Sift is opening a San Francisco hub to complement its Marina del Rey base, creating a dual-office model that splits hardware-centric work from software, distributed systems, and AI development. The company is actively hiring in both locations, positioning itself to scale into more complex enterprise and defense-adjacent use cases despite higher operating costs.
Product updates centered on the Explore environment, which now emphasizes eight analytic panel types including time series, tables, histograms, FFT, scatter, metrics, file viewer, and geo maps. Sift is promoting a mental model that maps these panels to questions of timing, shape, behavior, and location, aiming to turn complex questions into “one-glance” answers and reduce the learning curve for technical teams.
Within telemetry workflows, Sift showcased enhancements to its time series panel in the Explore 2 interface, enabling users to zoom into incidents and share URLs that recreate identical analytic views for teammates. This approach is designed to replace screenshot-heavy collaboration and long messaging threads, potentially improving incident resolution speed and product stickiness among engineering and operations teams.
On the customer front, Sift highlighted adoption by The Exploration Company, which is developing engines for Europe’s next reentry capsule and lunar lander. Sift’s platform is positioned as the data backbone for propulsion testing across facilities in the U.K., France, and Germany, helping teams align and compare test data under strict export control regimes.
The company also emphasized its role with hypersonic launch startup Longshot Space Technologies and customers such as Impulse, K2 Space, and Parallel Systems in aerospace and defense programs. Management framed Sift as core infrastructure for physical AI applications where rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, and rail systems must operate without rollback, pointing to long-cycle but potentially durable revenue streams.
Sift reports having tripled revenue year over year since 2022 and raised $67 million to scale across aerospace, defense, autonomy, rail, and advanced manufacturing. Overall, the week’s announcements signal a company deepening its leadership bench, expanding geographic reach, and sharpening its analytics tooling, with growing traction in mission-critical, data-intensive hardware markets.