DataStax is the commercial company built on Apache Cassandra and offers Astra, a serverless database, alongside Astra Streaming for streaming workloads. After hiring CEO Chet Kapoor in October 2019, Kapoor and chief strategy officer Sam Ramji refocused and modernized the product line and made acquisitions including Kesque for streaming. The company emphasizes an open-source data stack for real-time applications and deep engagement with the Apache Cassandra and Pulsar communities. DataStax is pushing into cloud serverless offerings to simplify developers' experience and capture growing NoSQL and real-time application demand. Management sees these product moves as a path to substantially higher revenue over time, and investors have continued to back that strategy. DataStax is the commercial face of the open-source Apache Cassandra database, providing an enterprise-grade distribution and paid customer support. The company has extended Cassandra with features to help companies build applications, and offers tools for security, search, repair, best practices, monitoring and application development. A free version of Cassandra remains available while DataStax sells an enhanced, fee-based experience to customers. The company cites real-world deployments—Comcast used DataStax and Cassandra to power new set‑top box experiences such as live sports scores overlays. DataStax also remains a significant contributor to the open-source Cassandra project while commercializing enterprise capabilities. Financially, the company announced a $106M Series E, bringing total funding to date to over $190M. DataStax offers enterprise-grade and community-edition database distributions built on Apache Cassandra, focusing on high performance and scalability. The company is the chief committer to Apache Cassandra and invests heavily in the open-source project to grow usability and the community. It recently released version 3.1 of its software, which promises higher data load capacity, faster search, and improved usability. DataStax plans to use new funding to build out globally and expand community activity, including meetups in Asia and Latin America. The company is finding growing demand as organizations migrate from relational databases to NoSQL environments. Management has signaled that the business is being prepared for a potential IPO, though timing will depend on market conditions. DataStax provides a Big Data platform based on the open-source Apache Cassandra database and leverages Cassandra, Solr and Hadoop technologies. The platform is designed to enable continuous availability, deep analytics, real-time search and high-velocity throughput. Led by CEO Billy Bosworth, the company counts customers including Netflix, Pearson Education and Constant Contact. DataStax said it will use the new capital to further enhance its Big Data platform and to increase global customer acquisition. The company raised $25M in a Series C round and has raised $38.7M to date. DataStax is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. DataStax provides Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system, and has launched DataStax Enterprise, a distributed and scalable platform powered by Cassandra for enterprise real-time and analytic workloads. Led by CEO Billy Bosworth and co-founder/CTO Jonathan Ellis, the company serves over 100 customers including Netflix, Cisco, Rackspace and Constant Contact across web, financial services, telecommunications, logistics and government verticals. DataStax is based in Burlingame, CA and also has offices in Austin, TX and Stamford, CT. The company closed an $11M Series B round to support expansion of Apache Cassandra adoption. New investor Crosslink Capital and existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners participated in the financing. In conjunction with the round, Eric Chin of Crosslink Capital was added to DataStax’s Board of Directors.

Total raised

$302M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jun 2022