Imply builds fully managed databases powered by the open-source Druid engine to enable real-time and historical analytics at low latency. Its product lineup includes Polaris, a cloud database service designed to simplify streaming, visualization, and other aspects of real-time analytics. The company positions itself as the enterprise version of Druid, emphasizing high concurrency and value for streaming and batch data use cases. Imply claims more than 150 customers, including Atlassian, Cisco ThousandEyes, InterContinental Exchange, and Reddit. The company plans to use recent funding for product development and to grow headcount from about 200 employees to 300 by year-end. Imply has raised $215 million in venture capital to date and declined to disclose current revenue. Imply builds an Analytics-in-Motion platform and commercial distribution around Apache Druid that serves as the engine for analytics-powered applications and internal BI/operational analytics. Its product emphasizes interactive sub-second queries, high ingestion throughput, real-time and historical data loads, and configurable price/performance for large-scale use. Imply says adoption of both its commercial offering and open-source Druid grew over the past year and the company has surpassed 100 enterprise and digital-native customers. The company intends to use the new funding to extend market leadership in the Analytics-in-Motion category and accelerate commercial momentum. Imply has expanded its executive team following the round and added a new board member from the lead investor. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Imply offers a cloud-native real-time analytics solution that uses Apache Druid as its engine to deliver sub-second queries, high-speed ingest, and intuitive visualizations for event-driven and streaming data. The company packages Druid with a responsive analytics UI, cloud-native deployment and management, performance monitoring, and enterprise-grade security, and can run self-hosted or as a managed service on public or private clouds. It natively integrates with streaming sources such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis and with file systems including HDFS, Amazon S3, and Google Cloud Storage. Imply says it grew ARR eightfold over the 24 months preceding the funding and cites adoption of Druid by companies like Netflix, Lyft, Pinterest, and Airbnb. The company will use the financing to accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market efforts, and it offers Imply Cloud and a free trial of its software. Founded in late 2015 and operating in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply has raised $45.3 million in total funding. Imply provides an open event analytics platform based on Druid that includes visualizations and critical deployment, management, and security software. The platform handles vast amounts of streaming and historical data and can explain why data patterns exist. The company announced general availability of Imply Cloud, a service created to make Druid/Imply easier to use and manage. Co-founded by Fangjin Yang (CEO), Gian Merlino (CTO), and Vadim Ogievetsky (CPO), Imply is based in Millbrae, CA. It raised $13.3M in Series A funding and will use the proceeds to accelerate development of its operations analytics platform. The round underscores a push to expand the company's analytics and cloud offerings. Imply provides interactive analytics at scale centered around the open-source Druid data store. It launched a free and open-source analytics platform that repackages Druid and adds components to simplify installation, use, and management. The company also created Pivot, an open-source visual data explorer that lets users explore relations between dimensions and watch and analyze events as they happen. Imply is led by Fangjin Yang, Gian Merlino and Vadim Ogievetsky. The company launched with $2M in seed funding from Khosla Ventures and intends to use the funds to continue building the platform. Ari Zilka, former CTO of Hortonworks, joined Imply’s board as part of the launch.

Total raised

$215M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

May 2022