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IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME: Datarista founder and CEO Pat Sabatino, standing, has had no problem finding the right talent in Providence, including Dave Counts, senior front-end engineer for the cloud-based, data-management startup. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME: Datarista founder and CEO Pat Sabatino, standing, has had no problem finding the right talent in Providence, including Dave Counts, senior front-end engineer for the cloud-based, data-management startup. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

TECHNOLOGY

For now, Datarista founder and CEO Pat Sabatino is vice president of sales and operations, too. He’s also the human resources department, and he takes out the trash.

With a first hire in December – Dave Costantino – and now with a seven-developer-strong team behind him, Sabatino’s Providence-based company is on track to double that number in 2017. The goal, said Sabatino, who proudly opted to start his company in Rhode Island instead of in San Mateo, Calif., is to eventually be a triple-digit employer.

Innovation, he says, has a home here.

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“Everyone said, ‘You won’t find money and talent,’ ” Sabatino said. “But there are tons of people commuting to Boston … looking for modern tech jobs at startups,” he said.

With his direction, seed money from the Slater Technology Fund, and a skilled local talent pool, Datarista is up and running.

The innovation behind Datarista, which offers real-time, third-party data delivery integrated with customer relationship management, marketing automation and other platforms, had been simmering with Sabatino for years, including during his time at Jigsaw and Salesforce.com.

Data at that point, he said, was a product, not a service.

But with cloud computing, Sabatino knew the time was right. Calling sales and marketing data a legacy industry, it was time for integrative solutions linking data with platforms without the hassles of licensing, shipping and loading.

“With the cloud, it was no longer just Salesforce,” Sabatino said. “It created a unique problem for data providers. The economics of building innovations into your cloud platform was running away from these companies.”

Sabatino quit his job in April of last year and incorporated Datarista in July 2015. This summer, Datarista moved to a 3,500-square-foot office on West Exchange Street in Providence.

Recognizing the pain point and having technology to meet the need was key, Sabatino said.

“Implementation of cloud-based software was what users would expect, in real time, immediate,” he said. “Everything integrates.” •

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