What it sells
The platform for building and operating time series applications.
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedVP Engineering / platform or infrastructure leads and OT/IIoT owners; enterprise IT procurement for Enterprise licenses.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Scaling telemetry/sensor workloads (e.g. 1M points/sec across 600+ satellites), predictive maintenance and need for high-availability time series storage.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Collect metrics with Telegraf plugins, ingest to InfluxDB 3 (self-managed, cloud or AWS-managed), query for monitoring, historian and ML workloads.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Open-source core (InfluxDB 3 Core, Telegraf) with paid Enterprise self-managed licenses priced by CPU configuration, dedicated cloud priced by CPU/RAM and storage, and usage-based Serverless; customer ROI claim: Seadrill saved $55M in asset lifecycle costs.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Free trials and OSS downloads funnel to sales (Talk to Sales / Request a PoC); AWS marketplace-style Timestream for InfluxDB; partners and community.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2013 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.