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The database sector includes 19 unicorn startups, showing significant investment in data management technologies. This group is led by companies like Airtable, valued at $12B, and includes recent entrants such as Reflection.Ai, which reached an $8B valuation in its founding year.

The industry's global reach is highlighted by companies like Finland-based Aiven, with a valuation of $3.21B.

Below is the full list of 19 Database unicorn startups at this time.

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Airtable builds a low-code platform that gives teams the power of a relational database with the familiarity of a spreadsheet. Their tools help users create custom applications and automate workflows with little to no code.

Valuation$12B (Joined November 2018)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2013
FoundersAndrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, Howie Liu
Funding Amount$1.4B
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsBoxGroup, Founder Collective, Franklin Templeton, Benchmark, Slow Ventures

VAST Data builds a unified data platform that consolidates storage, database, and compute power into a single software system. Their platform simplifies data management for enterprises and accelerates demanding AI and deep learning workloads.

Valuation$9.1B (Joined April 2020)
HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2016
FoundersAlon Horev, Jeff Denworth, Mohd Fairuz Razi bin Sharuddin, Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit
Funding Amount$381M
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries E
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, New Enterprise Associates, Goldman Sachs, Norwest, Bond

Reflection.Ai builds AI coding agents to help engineering teams understand and work with large codebases. Their systems can answer questions, generate step-by-step guides, and automate documentation to improve developer workflows.

Valuation$8B
HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2024
FoundersIoannis Antonoglou, Misha Laskin
Funding Amount$2.1B
Company SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries B
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, B Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Citi, Sequoia Capital

ClickHouse builds an open-source database management system for real-time analytics. The platform is known for its speed and efficiency in processing queries on massive datasets.

Valuation$6B (Joined October 2021)
HeadquartersPalo Alto, California, United States
Year Founded2021
FoundersAaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, Yury Izrailevsky
Funding Amount$750M
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsInsight Partners, Bond, Bessemer Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners, Khosla Ventures

Supabase builds an open source backend platform that serves as a popular alternative to Firebase. Their product is built around a managed PostgreSQL database, providing developers with a suite of tools including authentication, instant APIs, and storage.

Valuation$5B (Joined April 2025)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2020
FoundersAnthony Wilson, Paul Copplestone
Funding Amount$496.1M
Company SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries E
Top InvestorsLightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Accel, Peak XV Partners, Craft Ventures

Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database for modern, data-intensive applications. The platform is designed for high availability and massive scale, ensuring applications can survive failures and operate consistently across the globe.

Valuation$5B (Joined January 2021)
HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2015
FoundersBenjamin Darnell, Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball
Funding Amount$633.1M
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsSequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Bond, Benchmark, Coatue

Innovaccer builds a data activation platform that uses AI to help healthcare organizations unify their records. This system creates a single source of truth for patient data, enabling providers to improve analytics and the quality of care.

Valuation$3.45B (Joined February 2021)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2014
FoundersAbhinav Shashank, Kanav Hasija, Sandeep K Gupta
Funding Amount$654.1M
Company SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsB Capital, 500 Global, Tiger Global Management, Peak XV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Starburst develops a data lakehouse platform that gives companies a single point of access to their data, regardless of where it's stored. They are known for a high-performance query engine that lets teams analyze information directly from the source, accelerating the entire analytics workflow.

Valuation$3.35B (Joined January 2021)
HeadquartersBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Year Founded2017
FoundersAnu Sudarsan, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Matt Fuller, Wojciech Biela
Funding Amount$414M
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsIndex Ventures, Coatue, B Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Citi

Aiven offers a managed platform for open-source data technologies, allowing businesses to deploy them on any major cloud provider. Their service helps developers set up and maintain tools like PostgreSQL and Kafka, freeing them to focus on building applications instead of managing infrastructure.

Valuation$3.21B (Joined October 2021)
HeadquartersHelsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Year Founded2016
FoundersHannu Valtonen, Heikki Nousiainen, Oskari Saarenmaa
Funding Amount$420M
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries D
Top InvestorsSalesforce Ventures, IVP, Lifeline Ventures, BlackRock, Atomico

PingCAP builds TiDB, an open-source, distributed SQL database for both scalable transaction processing and real-time analytics. Their platform allows businesses to manage massive datasets by combining transactional and analytical workloads into a single, highly available system.

Valuation$3B
HeadquartersSunnyvale, California, United States
Year Founded2015
FoundersDylan Cui, Edward Huang, Max Liu
Funding Amount$641.6M
Company SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries D
Top InvestorsMatrix Partners China, Sequoia Capital, BAI capital, Coatue, K2VC

The Remaining 9 Database Unicorns

The ten most valuable companies only scratch the surface of the database industry's growth. This next group of companies has raised over $2.8 billion, with founders building from the US to the Netherlands.

Some of these companies are just getting started, while others have been growing steadily for over a decade. Below are the additional database startups that are shaping the field.

Unicorn StartupCountryYear FoundedAmount RaisedValuation
Redis logo RedisUnited States2011$356.8M$2B
Arcadia logo ArcadiaUnited States2014$575.5M$2B
Neo4j logo Neo4jUnited States2007$805.1M$2B
Lusha logo LushaUnited States2016$245M$2B
Yugabyte logo YugabyteUnited States2016$291M$1.3B
LangChain logo LangChainUnited States2022$160M$1.1B
Govini logo GoviniUnited States2011$170M$1B
DataSnipper logo DataSnipperThe Netherlands2017$100M$1B
Timescale logo TimescaleUnited States2015$181.1M$1B

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