Dato aims to accelerate the creation of intelligent applications by making sophisticated machine learning as easy as "Hello world." The company provides an integrated machine learning platform that handles data engineering, advanced ML techniques, and deployment of models as predictive services. This allows small teams to be highly productive in building intelligent applications like recommenders, fraud detection, and personalized medicine. Dato's platform provides out-of-core computation, tools for feature engineering, rich data type support, and scalable models to help customers in various industries rapidly iterate and deploy ML applications.