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The database industry is rapidly changing as companies build tools to support artificial intelligence.

For example, Innovaccer has raised over $654M to manage healthcare data. Meanwhile, newer companies like LangChain are creating tools for developers working with large language models.

Below is our list of 83 Database startups worth keeping an eye on.

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VAST Data builds a unified data platform that integrates storage, database, and compute capabilities into a single software system. Their platform is engineered to simplify data infrastructure for demanding AI and deep learning workloads.

HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2016
FoundersAlon Horev, Jeff Denworth, Mohd Fairuz Razi bin Sharuddin, Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit
Funding Amount$381M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries E
Top InvestorsNorwest Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Bond, New Enterprise Associates, Goldman Sachs

Neon builds a serverless PostgreSQL platform that separates storage and compute, enabling features like autoscaling and bottomless storage. The open-source database is known for its unique branching capabilities, which allow developers to instantly create copies of their data for development and testing.

HeadquartersMenlo Park, California, United States
Year Founded2021
FoundersHeikki Linnakangas, Nikita Shamgunov, Stas Kelvich
Funding Amount$129.6M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsMenlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Abstract

LangChain develops an open-source framework that helps developers build applications using large language models. The platform provides the essential building blocks for chaining LLMs with other sources of computation or data, making it easier to create sophisticated AI products.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersAnkush Gola, Harrison Chase
Funding Amount$35M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries A
Top InvestorsSequoia Capital, Benchmark

Innovaccer built a health cloud platform that uses AI to unify disparate patient data into a single, comprehensive record. Their technology enables healthcare organizations to apply advanced analytics, improving care management and overall patient outcomes.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2014
FoundersAbhinav Shashank, Kanav Hasija, Sandeep K Gupta
Funding Amount$654.1M
Startup SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top Investors500 Global, Peak XV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, B Capital, Tiger Global Management

Intella develops AI-powered tools for enterprises focused on Arabic speech, offering solutions for transcription and conversational analytics. Their platform enables companies to analyze these interactions and deploy AI agents for improved customer engagement.

HeadquartersCairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
Year Founded2021
FoundersNour taher, Omar Mansour
Funding Amount$17M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries A
Top Investors500 Global, HearstLab, Prosus Ventures, Wa’ed Ventures, Beyond Capital

Redis provides a real-time data platform centered on its popular open-source, in-memory database. The technology is widely used for high-performance applications like caching, session management, and real-time analytics that demand sub-millisecond speeds.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2011
FoundersOfer Bengal, Yiftach Shoolman
Funding Amount$356.8M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSecondary Market
Top InvestorsTCV, Francisco Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity

Starburst builds a data lakehouse platform that gives teams a single point of access to their data across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. The platform is designed for running fast analytics directly on any data source, removing the need to move or copy data.

HeadquartersBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Year Founded2017
FoundersAnu Sudarsan, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Matt Fuller, Wojciech Biela
Funding Amount$414M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, Citi, Index Ventures, B Capital, Coatue

Pinecone develops a vector database that makes it easy to connect company data with generative AI models. Their technology allows developers to build applications that can provide highly relevant answers and recommendations by searching through large datasets.

HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2019
FoundersEdo Liberty
Funding Amount$138M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSecondary Market
Top InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Growth

Hydrolix developed a streaming data lake that combines real-time query performance with significant data compression. The platform allows companies to affordably store and analyze high-volume observability and security data.

HeadquartersPortland, Oregon, United States
Year Founded2018
FoundersHasan Alayli, Marty Kagan
Funding Amount$145M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsQED Investors, Wing Venture Capital, Oregon Venture Fund, Akamai Technologies, Sozo Ventures

Crunchbase operates a predictive intelligence platform that delivers live data and insights on private companies. Their comprehensive database on private companies, funding rounds, and market signals makes it a go-to tool for prospecting and industry research.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2007
FoundersMichael Arrington
Funding Amount$106.5M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries D
Top InvestorsEmergence Capital, 8VC, Mayfield Fund, SV Angel, Salesforce Ventures

73 Additional Database Startups Worth Following

The top 10 are just a small part of a much wider story happening in the database world. The rest of the companies on our list have raised over $5 billion together, many of them building tools for analytics and AI.

Some are early in their journey, while others have been growing for years. Below are the other startups we think are worth watching.

StartupMain IndustryYear FoundedAmount RaisedLast Funding Round
MotherDuck logo MotherDuckAnalytics2022$100MSeries B
SurrealDB logo SurrealDBData2021$26MSeries A
ClickHouse logo ClickHouseAnalytics2021$750MSeries C
Veza logo VezaSecurity2020$233MSeries D
DataSnipper logo DataSnipperFintech2017$100MSeries B
RelationalAI logo RelationalAIAI2017$115MSeries B
Aerospike logo AerospikeAnalytics2009$241MVenture Round
Zilliz logo ZillizAnalytics2017$113MSeries B
SingleStore logo SingleStoreAnalytics2011$464.1MSeries F
MindsDB logo MindsDBInfrastructure2017$54.4MSeed
Tessell logo TessellInfrastructure2021$94MSeries B
Supabase logo SupabaseAI2020$496.1MSeries E
CData Software logo CData SoftwareData2016$510MPrivate Equity
Light logo LightFintech2023$43MSeries A
apiphani logo apiphaniEnterprise2018$25MSeries A
Avo logo AvoAnalytics2017$4.5MAngel
Tonic.ai logo Tonic.aiAI2018$45MSeries B
Neo4j logo Neo4jAnalytics2007$805.1MPrivate Equity
Blend360 logo Blend360Analytics2016$100MPrivate Equity
Select Star logo Select StarAnalytics2020$17.5MSeries A
Improvado logo ImprovadoMarketing2015$30MSeries A
Weaviate logo WeaviateAI2019$67.7MSeries B
BlueConic logo BlueConicAnalytics2010$26.6MVenture Round
Drug Hunter logo Drug HunterBiotech2018$6.3MSeed
PlanetScale logo PlanetScaleInfrastructure2018$105MSeries C
Legends logo LegendsAI2021$375kPre-Seed
RudderStack logo RudderStackAnalytics2019$82MSeries B
Arcadia logo ArcadiaEnergy2014$575.5MSeries E
Liquibase logo LiquibaseInfrastructure2012$27MSeries C
Guepard logo GuepardCloud2024$2.1MPre-Seed
Dnotitia logo DnotitiaAI2023₩21BSeed
LeoLabs logo LeoLabsMobility2016$111MVenture Round
Minerva logo MinervaAnalytics2023$8.2MVenture Round
Census logo CensusAnalytics2018$80.3MSeries B
Elicit logo ElicitAI2023$9MSeed
Eventual logo EventualAI2022$30MSeries A
OpenMeter logo OpenMeterAI2023$3MSeed
Tembo logo TemboAI2022$20.5MSeries A
SkySQL logo SkySQLInfrastructure2023$6.6MSeed
Rewind logo RewindInfrastructure2015$80.1MSeries B
Muse logo MuseHardware2007$39.9MSeries C
Darrow logo DarrowInfrastructure2020$59MSeries B
Wiom logo WiomData2020$59.4MSecondary Market
Tianyancha logo TianyanchaInfrastructure2015CN¥130MSeries A
constellr logo constellrAgTech2020€33.5MSeed
Datacenter United logo Datacenter UnitedCloud2010€120MDebt Financing
Zhiyan Technology logo Zhiyan TechnologyAnalytics2016CN¥100MSeries B
Amass Technologies logo Amass TechnologiesMedia2022€1.4MSeed
Ocean.io logo Ocean.ioAI2017€6MSeries A
Privasea logo PrivaseaInfrastructure2022€20MSeries A
Boost.space logo Boost.spaceCloud2017€1.6MConvertible Note
Oxla logo OxlaAnalytics2020$11MSeed
PlayerData logo PlayerDataInfrastructure2017$4.7MPre-Seed
Dataddo logo DataddoAnalytics2016$5MVenture Round
Formaloo logo FormalooEnterprise2020$2.5MSeed
Alude logo AludeInfrastructure2019$3.5MSeed
Quesma logo QuesmaCloud2023$2.3MPre-Seed
Business Online Public Company logo Business Online Public CompanyInfrastructure1995THB827.6MSecondary Market
SequoiaDB logo SequoiaDBData2012$75MSeries D
Sheetgo logo SheetgoAnalytics2016€3.2MSeed
Albert logo AlbertInfrastructure2015€7.5MVenture Round
Dameng Database logo Dameng DatabaseInfrastructure2000CN¥100MSeries A
URBANMETRY logo URBANMETRYAnalytics2014$2M
Theseus logo TheseusMedia2023€150kPre-Seed
Arbo Technologies logo Arbo TechnologiesCloud2021€400kSeed
Skurio logo SkurioSecurity2011€7.2MSeed
BinarBase logo BinarBaseAnalytics2022€400kPre-Seed
SofaScore logo SofaScoreData2010
Aimino logo AiminoInfrastructure2021
MS INNOVATIONS (allmysms.com) logo MS INNOVATIONS (allmysms.com)Infrastructure1998
entitys logo entitysInfrastructure2005Seed
Serios Group logo Serios GroupAnalytics2020
Human Inference logo Human InferenceInfrastructure1986

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