Top 40 Big Data Unicorn Companies in 2023

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August 24, 2023

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Have you ever wondered which private companies in the Big Data industry have the highest valuations?

You’re not alone.

There are lots of unicorn companies in this space, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all.

We've decided to take a deep dive and put together a list containing 40 Big Data unicorn startups, from highest to lowest valuation.

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1,016 Unicorns

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1) 6Sense

6sense uses proprietary algorithms to provide actionable business insights that turn marketing campaigns into customer engagements, helping B2B organizations with predictable revenue growth.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $5.20B (March 2021)
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Francisco
Started in: 2013
Founders: Amanda Kahlow, Dustin Chang, Premal Shah, Shane Moriah, Viral Bajaria
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $424.00M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 18

You can find their website here.

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2) Hopper

Hopper is a travel app that analyzes millions of flights to recommend the best time to book based on your priorities.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $5.00B (March 2021)
Country: Canada
State: Quebec
City: Montreal
Started in: 2007
Founders: Frederic Lalonde, Joost Ouwerkerk
Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
Funding: $614.20M
Funding rounds: 11
Number of investors: 22

You can find their website here.

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3) dbt Labs

dbt Labs develops an analytics engineering tool that prepares raw data in the warehouse for analysis.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $4.20B (June 2021)
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
City: Philadelphia
Started in: 2016
Founders: Connor McArthur, Drew Banin, Tristan Handy
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $193.90M
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

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4) ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform that helps enterprise users, developers, analysts, and marketers to explore, analyze, and share data insights easily. It democratizes access to massive amounts of data making it simple for anyone to make data-driven decisions.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $4.20B (May 2018)
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Jose
Started in: 2012
Founders: Abhishek Rai, Ajeet Singh, Amit Prakash, Priyendra Deshwal, Priyendra Deshwal, Sanjay Agrawal, Shashank Gupta, Vijay Ganesan
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $673.70M
Funding rounds: 12
Number of investors: 28

You can find their website here.

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5) Farmers Business Network

Farmers Business Network is a farmer-to-farmer network that connects farmers, ranchers, and agricultural entrepreneurs with both capital investors and other established farmer-entrepreneurs.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $4.00B (August 2020)
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Carlos
Started in: 2014
Founders: Amol Deshpande, Charles Baron
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $739.60M
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 24

You can find their website here.

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6) Tekion

Tekion is a next-gen, self-serving platform that leverages advanced machine learning and AI to provide a personalized and seamless consumer experience.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $3.50B (October 2020)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Pleasanton
Started in: 2016
Founders: Guru Sankararaman, Jay Vijayan
Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
Funding: $400.00M
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

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7) Starburst

Starburst Data is a data access and analytics company developing an SQL query engine that enables developers to have a tool they can use to build rich, powerful applications.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $3.35B (January 2021)
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Started in: 2017
Founders: Anu Sudarsan, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips, Grzegorz Kokosiński, Justin Borgman, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Karol Sobczak, Martin Traverso, Matt Fuller, Piotr Findeisen, Wojciech Biela
Number of employees: 250-500
Funding: $414.00M
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 7

You can find their website here.

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8) Traveloka

Traveloka is an online travel agency that uses artificial intelligence to recommend the right holiday for customers.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $3.00B (January 2017)
Country: Indonesia
City: Jakarta
Started in: 2012
Founders: Albert Albert, Derianto Kusuma, Ferry Unardi
Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
Funding: $1,170.00M
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

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9) Cribl

Cribl enables open observability and defies data gravity, providing customers with unparalleled levels of data choice and control.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.50B (August 2021)
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Francisco
Started in: 2017
Founders: Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, Ledion Bitincka
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $402.21M
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 8

You can find their website here.

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10) Exabeam

Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.40B (June 2021)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Foster City
Started in: 2013
Founders: Domingo Mihovilovic, Nir Polak, Sylvain Gil
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $390.00M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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11) Rokt

Rokt is an ecommerce marketing technology that gives customers a personalized and relevant experience while buying online.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.40B (December 2021)
Country: United States
State: New York
City: New York
Started in: 2012
Founders: Ben Voltz, Bruce Buchanan, Justin Viles
Number of employees: 250-500
Funding: $488.50M
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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12) Devo

Devo is a cybersecurity firm that offers cloud-native logging and security analytics to businesses.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.00B (October 2021)
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
City: Cambridge
Started in: 2011
Founders: Pedro Castillo
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $481.00M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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13) ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a database management system for online analytical processing (OLAP).

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.00B (October 2021)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Portola Valley
Started in: 2021
Founders: Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, Yury Izrailevsky
Number of employees: 10-50
Funding: $300.00M
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

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14) Dremio

Dremio is a platform built specifically to help companies process their data lake faster, better and with less effort.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.00B (January 2021)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Santa Clara
Started in: 2015
Founders: Jacques Nadeau, Tomer Shiran
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $405.00M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 8

You can find their website here.

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15) Redis Labs

Redis is the sponsor of the open source database and delivers an enterprise-grade data platform to power real-time experiences.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $2.00B (August 2020)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Mountain View
Started in: 2011
Founders: Ofer Bengal, Yiftach Shoolman
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $706.60M
Funding rounds: 10
Number of investors: 12

You can find their website here.

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16) Trulioo

Trulioo is an online verification company that operates a digital identity network deploying security and privacy standards.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.75B (June 2021)
Country: Canada
State: British Columbia
City: Vancouver
Started in: 2011
Founders: Stephen Ufford, Tanis Jorge
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $469.74M
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 15

You can find their website here.

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17) Infinidat

Infinidat is the first fully integrated, multi-platform, enterprise-class data storage software platform designed from scratch for cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.60B (April 2015)
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
City: Waltham
Started in: 2011
Founders: Moshe Yanai
Number of employees: 250-500
Funding: $325.00M
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 8

You can find their website here.

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18) Afiniti

Afiniti uses AI to help companies make better decisions through better interactions with their customers.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.60B (April 2017)
Country: Bermuda
City: Hamilton
Started in: 2006
Founders: Zia Chishti
Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
Funding: $327.20M
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

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19) Lusha

Lusha is a crowdsourced data platform for B2B sales and marketing that connects sales, business development, and HR professionals.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.50B (November 2021)
Country: United States
State: New York
City: New York
Started in: 2016
Founders: Assaf Eisenstein, Yoni Tserruya
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $245.00M
Funding rounds: 2
Number of investors: 2

You can find their website here.

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20) DT Dream

Dt Dream Inc. is a visionary cloud solutions and big data analysis company that is transforming the way businesses make decisions by providing intelligence that harnesses the power of information to improve productivity, efficiency, and profitability.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.50B (June 2017)
Country: China
State: Zhejiang
City: Hangzhou
Started in: 2015
Founders: Jingchuan Wu, Weiliang Qu
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $433.61M
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

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21) Firebolt

Firebolt is a cloud data warehousing platform that allows users to streamline their analytics and access to insights.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.40B (January 2022)
Country: Israel
City: Tel Aviv
Started in: 2019
Founders: Ariel Yaroshevich, Eldad Farkash, Saar Bitner
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $264.00M
Funding rounds: 4
Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

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22) TalkingData

TalkingData is China’s largest independent Big Data service platform with focus on the mobile Internet.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.30B (January 2021)
Country: China
State: Beijing
City: Beijing
Started in: 2013
Founders: Leo Cui
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $310.00M
Funding rounds: 8
Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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23) BigID

BigID is a cloud privacy management provider that unifies consumer data protection, quality assurance, and compliance.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.25B (December 2020)
Country: United States
State: New York
City: New York
Started in: 2015
Founders: Dimitri Sirota, Nimrod Vax
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $246.10M
Funding rounds: 12
Number of investors: 19

You can find their website here.

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24) Qumulo

Qumulo is the first and only distributed file platform that enables enterprises to store and manage all their file data -- regardless of where it resides -- in one place, with confidence.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.20B (July 2020)
Country: United States
State: Washington
City: Seattle
Started in: 2012
Founders: Aaron Passey, Neal Fachan, Peter Godman
Number of employees: 250-500
Funding: $345.50M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 13

You can find their website here.

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25) Mininglamp Technology

MiningLamp builds the knowledge graphs used to power Artificial Intelligence solutions for advanced business processes, identifying smart insights and decreasing the need for human intervention.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.19B (March 2019)
Country: China
State: Beijing
City: Beijing
Started in: 2014
Founders: Minghui Wu
Number of employees: 250-500
Funding: $1,002.69M
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

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26) Imply

Imply is a multi-cloud data platform that provides real-time data ingestion and visualisations for event-driven and streaming data flows.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.10B (May 2022)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Burlingame
Started in: 2015
Founders: Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino, Vadim Ogievetsky
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $215.30M
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 7

You can find their website here.

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27) Sisense

Sisense is an AI-powered analytics platform that seamlessly connects your data to everyone, everywhere in your organization.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.10B (January 2020)
Country: United States
State: New York
City: New York
Started in: 2004
Founders: Adi Azaria, Aviad Harell, Elad Israeli, Eldad Farkash, Guy Boyangu
Number of employees: 500-1,000
Funding: $1,730.40M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 12

You can find their website here.

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28) IGAWorks

Full-stack ad-tech firm specialising in digital marketing

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (November 2021)
Country: South Korea
State: Seoul-tukpyolsi
City: Seoul
Started in: 2006
Founders: Kuk-seong \Eric\" Ma"
Number of employees: 51-100
Funding: $50.28M
Funding rounds: 5
Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

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29) Glean

Glean is a work assistant that allows and assists employees in finding any piece of data at their workplace.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (May 2022)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Palo Alto
Started in: 2019
Founders: Arvind Jain, Piyush Prahladka, Tony Gentilcore, TR Vishwanath
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $155.00M
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

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30) Immuta

Immuta speeds up secure data access by detecting, securing, and monitoring cloud data.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (June 2022)
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Started in: 2015
Founders: Matthew Carroll, Michael Schiller, Sapan Shah, Steven Touw
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $258.20M
Funding rounds: 7
Number of investors: 22

You can find their website here.

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31) Xanadu

Xanadu provides quantum computing hardware, software, applications, and simulators.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (November 2022)
Country: Canada
State: Ontario
City: Toronto
Started in: 2016
Founders: Christian Weedbrook
Number of employees: 101-250
Funding: $265.54M
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 23

You can find their website here.

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32) SingleStore

SingleStore is a database provider for operational analytics and cloud-native applications.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (July 2022)
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Francisco
Started in: 2011
Founders: Adam Prout, Eric Frenkiel, Nikita Shamgunov
Number of employees: 251-500
Funding: $464.10M
Funding rounds: 11
Number of investors: 36

You can find their website here.

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33) Minio

MinIO offers high-performance, S3 compatible object storage for multi-cloud architectures. Software-defined, cloud-native + 100% opensource.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (January 2022)
Country: United States
State: California
City: Palo Alto
Started in: 2014
Founders: Anand Babu Periasamy, Frederick Kautz, Garima Kapoor, Harshavardhana .
Number of employees: 10-50
Funding: $126.30M
Funding rounds: 3
Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

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34) Sift

Sift applies insights from a global network of data to detect fraud and increase positive user experience.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (April 2021)
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Francisco
Started in: 2011
Founders: Brandon Ballinger, Jason Tan
Number of employees: 100-250
Funding: $156.52M
Funding rounds: 9
Number of investors: 26

You can find their website here.

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35) Axtria

Axtria is a software and services company specializing in big data analytics for the Life Sciences market.

Details of the startup:

Valuation: $1.00B (May 2021)
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
City: Berkeley Heights
Started in: 2009
Founders: Jaswinder Chadha, Navdeep (Navi) Chadha
Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
Funding: $206.32M
Funding rounds: 6
Number of investors: 6

You can find their website here.

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36) Amperity

Amperity is an Intelligent Customer Data Platform that enables global consumer companies to maximize their revenue potential by accessing all of their customer data.

Details of the startup: