MotherDuck provides a cloud analytics service built on the open-source DuckDB engine, usable as a backend for SaaS analytics, a data warehouse, or a query engine for data lakes. The company emphasizes a scale-up approach that targets smaller datasets (roughly 1–10GB) and claims performance, cost, and flexibility advantages versus distributed and transactional databases. Since launching in mid-June it has iterated quickly based on feedback from hundreds of users and removed its platform waitlist; it reports nearly 2,000 users. Near-term product roadmap items include an improved programming notebook experience with autocomplete, faster data import, improved database sharing, and support for the upcoming DuckDB 0.9.0 release on the platform. CEO Jordan Tigani, a former SingleStore engineering director and founding engineer on BigQuery, leads the company’s technical direction. The company currently has 32 staffers and plans to grow to about 45 by year-end. MotherDuck provides a data analytics platform that leverages the open-source DuckDB database to run analytical queries without preloading data and to operate across environments (including the browser). The company emphasizes integration with DuckDB Labs and execution of analytics based on recent academic research. Led by CEO Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck plans to use new funding to build out its engineering and go-to-market teams and deepen collaboration with DuckDB Labs. The article notes broad adoption of DuckDB in the data community, which underpins MotherDuck's product positioning. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. Financial metrics such as revenue or user counts were not disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$88M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2023