Starburst
Starburst sells an enterprise data lakehouse and federated query platform built on the open source Trino SQL engine.
Raised $414M across disclosed rounds.[3][5][8]
Strategic investment closed May 2025, led by Citi.[7]
Round size and post-money valuation are not publicly disclosed.
Named investors include Alkeon Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, B Capital Group, Citi.[1][5][7]
Justin Borgman, Co-founder and CEO[10][11][12][13][17]
Matt Fuller, Co-founder[10][11][12][13][17]
Kamil B., Co-founder and CTO[10][11][12][13][17]
Anu Sudarsan, Co-founder and Engineering Manager[10][11][12][13][17]
Jitender Aswani, SVP of Engineering[5][8][17]
Javier Molina, Chief Revenue Officer[5][8][17]
Adrian Estala, VP, Field Chief Data Officer[5][8][17]
Dremio · dremio.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: Dremio competes directly with Starburst for federated query and lakehouse analytics workloads, and was recently acquired by SAP, which Starburst itself cited as a competitive event in the lakehouse ecosystem.[8]
Databricks · databricks.com · Same buyer and same budget line: Starburst's own homepage positions itself against Databricks as an alternative when data is distributed and teams do not want to move everything into one lakehouse.[9]
Snowflake · snowflake.com · Same buyer and same budget line: Starburst's own homepage positions itself against Snowflake as an alternative when data is distributed across systems and centralizing is too slow or costly.[9]
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Starburst
Starburst sells an enterprise data lakehouse and federated query platform built on the open source Trino SQL engine.
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