StarTree maintains Apache Pinot and provides a managed, Pinot-powered platform that supports both batch and streaming data for real-time analytics. The company offers StarTree Cloud in bring-your-own-cloud and SaaS editions, a tiered storage service, and a community edition that includes apps for real-time anomaly detection, monitoring, and root-cause analysis. StarTree’s platform can run the data plane in a customer’s cloud account or in StarTree’s account, giving customers flexibility on security and governance while offloading operations. Customers mentioned in the article include Guitar Center, Pluto TV, Stripe, and JustEatTakeaway.com. The company plans to double headcount from 70 to 150 by the end of 2023 and is opening an office in India while investing in R&D and product development. StarTree competes with firms such as Imply, ClickHouse-related companies, and Rockset. StarTree offers a real-time analytics platform and cloud analytics-as-a-service built around Apache Pinot. Its data store ingests from batch sources (Hadoop HDFS, Amazon S3, Azure ADLS, Google Cloud Storage) and stream sources such as Apache Kafka. The SaaS product is designed for analysts, data scientists and developers to build enterprise applications and business intelligence systems. The company is led by CEO Kishore Gopalakrishna and was founded by the creators of Apache Pinot. StarTree intends to use the Series A proceeds to expand adoption of user-facing analytics. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$71M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Aug 2022