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Starburst

Starburst sells an enterprise data lakehouse and federated query platform built on the open source Trino SQL engine.

starburst.io · Boston

CALL NO.CS·STARBURST·26
StageStrategic investmentMay 2025 · led by Citi[7]
Raised$414Mdisclosed rounds[3][5][8]
Headcount342as of Jun 2026[8]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2017[8][4]
Money

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]

People

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]

Signals
May 19 2025fundingStarburst Announces Strategic Investment from Citi company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Feb 9 2022fundingStarburst valued at $3.35 bln after Alkeon-led funding[1]
Feb 9 2022fundingStarburst $250M funding round boosts valuation to $3.35B[3][5][4]
Jan 6 2021fundingStarburst Data Hits $1.2 Billion Valuation as Andreessen Invests[2]
Jan 6 2021fundingStarburst Secures $100M Series C Financing To Turn Data Analytics On Its Head, Led By Andreessen Horowitz company claim, not independently confirmed[6]
Comps

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]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[7]

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CALL NO.CS·STARBURST·26

Starburst sells an enterprise data lakehouse and federated query platform built on the open source Trino SQL engine.

starburst.io · Boston

StageStrategic investment
Raised$414M
Headcount342
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2017
CompsDremio +2

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