Near is an ambient intelligence platform that uses massive data and AI to understand consumer behavior in smart environments. It processes 150K events per second globally and manages 1.5 billion user profiles and nearly 3000 audience segments. Redis powers Near's ID system, gridstore, countstore, and real-time bidding engine by enabling scaling, exploration of data structures, and development of reliable real-time and batch pipelines. Near is evaluating enterprise Redis and reorganizing some data stores to further optimize its platform.