What it sells
The cloud-native, operational database built for speed and scale.
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedHeads of data/engineering and CTOs at enterprises and SaaS companies building real-time analytics and AI apps.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Need live answers for analytics and AI agents on current data at low latency and scale.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Run operational and analytical SQL, search, vector and time-series workloads in one MySQL-compatible database with streaming pipelines and bulk load.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Usage-based database cloud (hourly workspace rates) plus enterprise self-managed licences.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Self-serve free tier and credits plus sales-led enterprise and BYOC; runs on AWS, Azure, GCP.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2011 | — | 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.