Top Data Startups to Watch (and Work for) in 2023

• Databricks has over 7,000 customers, including Adobe, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M, AT&T, Shell, Walgreens, Air Canada, Toyota, and T-Mobile.

• Over 40% of the Fortune 500 relies on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data.

• Databricks has hundreds of global partners, including Microsoft, Amazon, Tableau, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

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• 16,000 companies use dbt Labs, including Hubspot, Zip, JetBlue, and Kickstarter.

• dbt Labs acquired Transform, a platform that allows organizations to work on the metric layer in today’s modern data stack.

• Census has a couple of hundred customers, including Notion, MasterClass, Intercom, ClickUp, Sonos, Canva, Zip, Smartify, Figma, Apollo.io, Guru, Fivetran, Loom, and Mixpanel.

• Census supports 150+ integrations, including Snowflake, Databricks, Google Sheets, Postgres, BigQuery, MySQL, Azure Synapse, S3, Redshift, and Microsoft SQL Server.

• From Q4 2020 to Q3 2021, Bigeye achieved four consecutive quarters of doubling usage and new customers.

• Bigeye has tracked 50 million data check runs on its platform.

• Bigeye customers include Instacart, Udacity, Recharge, Clubhouse, Scale, Docker, SignalFire, Crux, and Mayan.

• More than 20% of the Fortune 100 are customers of Domino Data Lab, including Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson, Moody’s Analytics, Topdanmark, AES, Bayer, Allstate, BNP Paribas Cardif, Eli Lilly, Ford, Red Hat, GAP, and New York Life.

• Domino Data Lab typical customer results are 542% ROI, 80% faster model deployment, 50% shorter model lifecycle, and 75% faster onboarding.

• As of January 2022, the Observable community surpassed 5 million people.

• As of May 2023, the Observable community has created 200,000+ data visualization examples to use as a starting point for your company’s visualization.

• Observable’s customers include thousands of data scientists, data analysts, and engineers at organizations like OpenAI, Stitch Fix, Twitter, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, NBC News, MIT, McKinsey & Company, and Trase.

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• As of February 2023, Fivetran reported a $200 million annual revenue run rate and 50% YoY growth.

• As of February 2023, Fivetran syncs 2 trillion rows monthly, manages 1.3 million+ schema changes monthly, manages 175,000+ connectors, and has a 99.9% guaranteed data pipeline uptime.

• As of May 2023, Fivetran has 5,000+ customers, including Morgan Stanley, Intercom, Asics, Blend, Forever 21, DocuSign, Everlane, Okta, Optimizely, Square, GoodRx, and Lionsgate.

• In Q2 2021, Anomalo surpassed $1 million in annualized recurring revenue, 3x over Q1 2021.

• Anomalo customers include BuzzFeed, Included Health, Discover Financial Services, Substack, Carta, Faire, Block, Aritzia, Fandom, and Notion.

• As of January 2023, Metaplane has 140+ customers, including Imperfect Foods, Reforge, Pipe, Vivian Health, Clearbit, Gorgias, SpotOn, Car and Classic, Vendr, and Mux.

• As of July 2023, ClickHouse has 100,000+ developers on its platform.

• As of July 2023, ClickHouse’s GitHub has 29.8K stars, 5.9K forks, and 1,276 contributors, up from 20K stars and 800 contributors in October 2021.

• As of July 2023, ClickHouse has 4,025 developers in its Slack community.

• As of July 2023, developers have made 32,000+ pull requests, up from 20,000 in October 2021.

• ClickHouse customers include Cloudflare, eBay, Uber, Comcast, and Cisco.

• As of July 2023, Airbyte has 40,000+ data practitioners on its platform, up from 4,500 in December 2021.

• As of July 2023, Airbyte has 4,000+ daily active companies on the platform, including Monday, Unity, Calendly, BetterUp, Petco, Monday.com, and Anker.

• As of July 2023, Airbyte reported syncing 1 petabyte of data and processing 2 billion rows monthly.

• In 2021, 9,000+ companies synced data on Airbyte.

• Atlan customers include Unilever, Autodesk, Plaid, Monster, Ralph Lauren, Juniper Networks, Elastic, and Nasdaq.

• In 2021, Atlan reported 10x customer and revenue growth.

• As of March 2023, Cockroach Labs averages 139% annual growth.

• As of December 2021, Cockroach Labs reported 200 customers, including LaunchDarkly, DigitalOcean, Comcast, Booksy, AllSaints, and Storj.

• In December 2021, Cockroach Labs reported 3x growth in ARR.

• In Q3 2021, Cockroach Labs reported a 500% growth in cloud revenue.

• As of November 2021, Collibra has 500+ customers, including Equifax, Cox Automotive, L'Oréal, Cambia Health Solutions, and Northern Trust.

• As of July 2023, DragonflyDB claims its software has 25x more QPS and 12x faster snapshotting than Redis.

• As of July 2023, DragonflyDB claims it offers 30% less memory usage than other market offerings.

• As of July 2023, Dremio customers include Unilever, Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft, Blackrock, Bentley, Abbot, Deloitte, Amazon, and DB Cargo.

• As of March 2023, Hex has 450+ customers, including OpenSea, Fivetran, Glossier, Brex, Noom, Notion, Anthropic, AngelList, Algolia, and Glean.

• As of March 2023, Hex reported 4x growth in revenue and the size of their business in the previous 12-month period.

• As of July 2023, Hightouch has 500+ customers, including Spotify, Betterment, Ramp, Calendly, Plaid, Retool, Checkr, GitLab, Tripadvisor, GameStop, and the NBA.

• As of July 2023, MinIO counts PayPal, Kayak, Solvinity, Mavenir, Rubrik, Iodine, Hansen Software, and Banregio as customers.

• As of July 2023, MinIO has 1.25 billion+ Docker pulls, 40K GitHub stars, 25.4K Slack members, and 1.1K contributors.

• In 2021, MinIO reported 201% ARR growth and 208% customer growth over the past year.

• As of July 2023, Materialize counts Ramp, Drizly, Density, Onward, Pluralsight, Centerfield, and Kepler Cheuvreux.

• As of July 2023, Monte Carlo counts CNN, Fox, GoodRx, Intercom, jetBlue, OpenTable, PagerDuty, Pepsico, SeatGeek, SoFi, Sonos, Vimeo, and Affirm as customers.

• In May 2022, Monte Carlo reported 2x revenue growth every quarter and an 800% increase in YoY revenue since it last raised money in August 2021.

• Between Summer 2020 and Summer 2021, Monte Carlo reported 8x in ARR growth.

• As of September 2023, MotherDuck reported ~2000 users.

• In June 2023, MotherDuck announced its product is now available to customers.

• As of July 2022, Neon counted 700 registered users and 5,000 people on their waitlist.

• As of July 2023, Redis Labs reported 4 billion+ Docker pulls, 50K+ GitHub stars, and 50+ supported programming languages.

• As of April 2021, Redis Labs has 8,000+ customers, including 31 Fortune 100 customers.

• As of April 2021, Redis Labs reported 54% CAGR over the 3-years ended 1/31/21.

• As of April 2021, Redis Labs reported a 120% net revenue retention rate.

• As of July 2023, PlanetScale counts Square, Etsy, Community, MyFitnessPal, Solana, Attentive, Kick, and Barstool Sports as customers.

• As of July 2023, Supabase customers include Mendable, Markprompt, Berri AI, HappyTeams, Xendit, and Mobbin.

• As of August 2022, Supabase has 110,000 developers on the platform.

• In May 2022, Supabase reported 80,000 developers created 100,000+ databases on its platform, a 1900% growth over the previous 12-month period.

• As of July 2023, Tabular claims its central table store can reduce cloud storage costs by up to 50%.

• As of July 2023, Dovetail has 10,000+ users from companies including Deloitte, Datadog, Shopify, GitLab, Atlassian, and the Nielsen Norman Group.

• In 2021, Dovetail reported 3x revenue and customer growth.

• As of July 2023, Triple Whale customers include the Miami Heat, Moodi, Sene, Outway, Milk, Iron Neck, and True Classic.