VAST Data Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List for 2023
VAST Data Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List for 2023

Remote-First-Company – March 2, 2023 – VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI-powered world, today announced its appointment to Fast Company’s esteemed annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.
This year’s list highlights the organizations at the forefront of their respective industries, paving the way for the innovations of tomorrow. VAST Data is featured among companies that are setting the standard for innovation with some of the greatest accomplishments of the modern world.
“Innovation is at the core of VAST’s business. We’re constantly investing in R&D and engineering talent to deliver new, industry-leading data management solutions and capabilities to our customers. Today’s recognition from Fast Company serves as validation for the progress we’ve made, but we’re not slowing down – expect even more innovation from us in the next year.”
Over the past six months alone, the VAST invention engine has:
Announced its larger data platform agenda, the company’s most robust software release to date, featuring the VAST Data Catalog, Uplink, Zero-Trust Security, and more.
Delivered a more secure and sustainable hyperscale data infrastructure
with integrated data integrity and authentication, advanced protocol auditing, near-infinite snapshots, high performance encryption, and data aware compression.
Driven successes in new markets, specifically life sciences with case studies like SeqOIA, CeGaT, and Therapixel.
Set the foundation for an environmentally conscious, high-performance data center with VAST’s first Sustainability Report, delivering the industry’s best power consumption model for today’s energy-conscious enterprises.
Fast Company touts The World’s Most Innovative Companies list as its signature franchise and one of its most highly anticipated editorial efforts of the year. It provides a firsthand look at the inspiring and innovative efforts of companies across all sectors of the economy.
“What a strange and thrilling year it has been to honor this year’s Most Innovative Companies. This year’s list compiles some of the most cutting-edge groundbreakers who are changing our world every single day, from legacy organizations like McDonald’s to upstarts like MrBeast and institutions such as NASA. Everyone on this list does something completely, uniquely different, yet, they all have one thing in common: innovation,” said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan.
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About VAST Data
VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST’s breakthrough DASE architecture – the world’s first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI. Learn more at vastdata.com and follow VAST Data on LinkedIn, YouTube and X.