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Starburst provides an enterprise-grade data platform that enables organizations to query data across disparate sources using a single point of access. Built on the open-source Trino (formerly Presto) distributed SQL query engine, its core product, Starburst Enterprise, offers accelerated analytics, enhanced security, and robust connectivity to data wherever it resides, facilitating the creation of data products within a modern data lakehouse architecture.
The company was co-founded in 2017 by Justin Borgman, alongside the creators of Trino/Presto: Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom, David Phillips, and Eric Hwang. Their foundational insight stemmed from the need to commercialize and provide comprehensive support for the powerful open-source SQL query technology that these engineers had originally developed at Facebook, recognizing its potential for broader enterprise adoption beyond its initial domain.
Starburst serves data-driven enterprises seeking to unlock insights from their entire data landscape, regardless of storage location or format. Its vision is to unify data access, governance, and analytics, empowering businesses to build an AI-ready data platform and accelerate data-driven innovation, ultimately transforming raw data into actionable intelligence across their operations.
Starburst has raised $414.0M across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at Starburst.
Starburst was founded in 2017 by Martin Traverso (Co-Founder) and Justin Borgman (Co-Founder) and Wojciech Biela (Co-Founder) and Lukasz Osipiuk (Co-Founder) and Grzegorz Kokosiński (Co-Founder) and Matt Fuller (Co-Founder) and Anu Sudarsan (Co-Founder) and Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (Co-Founder).
Starburst has raised $414.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Starburst is a Boston-based technology company that builds an open data lakehouse platform powered by the Trino SQL analytics engine, enabling secure data access, analysis, and sharing for analytics and AI across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.[1][3][5] It serves data-intensive organizations in sectors like financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more—such as Comcast, Halliburton, and seven of the top 10 global banks—solving the problem of fragmented data silos by unifying access without costly migrations, while delivering industry-leading price-performance (e.g., 10x cost savings, 11.5x faster SQL queries).[3][4][5] With over $414 million in venture funding, a $3 billion+ valuation, and more than 200 enterprise customers, Starburst demonstrates strong growth momentum through rapid revenue expansion, customer acquisition, and innovations like Starburst Galaxy (fully managed SaaS) and Starburst Enterprise (self-managed for secure deployments).[3][4]
Starburst emerged from the open-source world when its founders—creators of Trino (originally Presto at Facebook)—developed the analytics engine about 10 years ago with no initial intent to commercialize it.[4] Five years ago, in 2017, they founded Starburst (formerly Project Flex) in Boston, Massachusetts, bootstrapping with early customer revenue rather than traditional venture funding, which fueled organic growth from day one.[1][4] Key pivotal moments include raising $414 million from top investors to scale, achieving unicorn status with a $3.2 billion valuation, and powering mission-critical workloads for giants like Citi (managing $25 trillion in assets across 100 markets).[3][4] This founder-led evolution from open-source innovation to enterprise platform humanizes Starburst as a company built by engineers solving real-world data challenges.
Starburst rides the data lakehouse and AI democratization wave, where exploding data volumes demand open, federated access across hybrid clouds without vendor lock-in—perfect timing amid multi-cloud adoption and AI's need for governed, contextual data.[3][5] Market forces like rising analytics/AI workloads (e.g., risk mitigation, supply chain, customer experiences) favor its price-performance edge over legacy warehouses, while Trino's open-source momentum influences the ecosystem by empowering 50+ innovators to build streaming apps and AI agents.[3][4][5] By enabling faster, cheaper data unification, Starburst shapes broader trends toward hybrid architectures, reducing migration costs and boosting optionality for enterprises like banks and healthcare providers.
Starburst is poised to dominate as the go-to open lakehouse for AI-era data platforms, expanding Galaxy's SaaS adoption and Enterprise's secure deployments amid surging demand for agentic AI and real-time analytics.[3][5] Trends like generative AI integration, edge computing, and stricter data sovereignty will propel growth, potentially pushing valuation higher through acquisitions or IPO. Its influence will evolve by deepening Trino's ecosystem, fostering more open-source contributions, and setting standards for hybrid data strategies—cementing its role from bootstrapped innovator to iconic data leader.
Key people at Starburst.
Starburst was founded in 2017 by Martin Traverso (Co-Founder) and Justin Borgman (Co-Founder) and Wojciech Biela (Co-Founder) and Lukasz Osipiuk (Co-Founder) and Grzegorz Kokosiński (Co-Founder) and Matt Fuller (Co-Founder) and Anu Sudarsan (Co-Founder) and Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (Co-Founder).
Starburst has raised $414.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Starburst's investors include Alkeon Capital, 10100, 2048 Ventures, 7percent Ventures, 8VC, Accel, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Anorak Ventures, Bam Ventures, Base Ventures, Battery Ventures.
Starburst has raised $414.0M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $250.0M Series D in February 2022.
