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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| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Alon Horev, Jeff Denworth, Mohd Fairuz Razi bin Sharuddin, Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit |
| Funding Amount | $381M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Norwest 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.
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Heikki Linnakangas, Nikita Shamgunov, Stas Kelvich |
| Funding Amount | $129.6M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Menlo 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.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Ankush Gola, Harrison Chase |
| Funding Amount | $35M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Sequoia 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.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Founders | Abhinav Shashank, Kanav Hasija, Sandeep K Gupta |
| Funding Amount | $654.1M |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | 500 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.
| Headquarters | Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt |
| Year Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Nour taher, Omar Mansour |
| Funding Amount | $17M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | 500 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.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2011 |
| Founders | Ofer Bengal, Yiftach Shoolman |
| Funding Amount | $356.8M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Secondary Market |
| Top Investors | TCV, 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.
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Anu Sudarsan, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Matt Fuller, Wojciech Biela |
| Funding Amount | $414M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Andreessen 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.
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Edo Liberty |
| Funding Amount | $138M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Secondary Market |
| Top Investors | Andreessen 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.
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Year Founded | 2018 |
| Founders | Hasan Alayli, Marty Kagan |
| Funding Amount | $145M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | QED 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.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2007 |
| Founders | Michael Arrington |
| Funding Amount | $106.5M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series D |
| Top Investors | Emergence 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.