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StarTree develops a managed real-time analytics platform built upon Apache Pinot, offering a cloud-based solution that transforms continuous raw data streams into actionable insights. This platform is specifically engineered for online analytical processing (OLAP) at massive scale, providing rapid data ingestion and query capabilities essential for modern data-intensive applications. It enables businesses to achieve advanced insights from both live and historical datasets, supporting critical operational intelligence.
The company was founded in 2019 by Kishore Gopalakrishna and Xiang Fu, who were part of the original core software engineering team and inventors behind Apache Pinot. Their insight stemmed from the need for a highly performant and scalable analytics database that could power user-facing applications, leading them to commercialize their expertise and offer a managed service to a broader market. Their collective experience laid the groundwork for StarTree's product development.
StarTree's solution caters to various business customers seeking to derive advanced, continuous insights from their data. The platform empowers organizations to leverage real-time analytics for enhancing decision-making and improving user experiences. Looking ahead, StarTree aims to be the definitive platform for continuous insights, enabling enterprises to unlock the full value of their real-time data and maintain a competitive edge.
StarTree has raised $75.0M across 3 funding rounds.
StarTree has raised $75.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
StarTree has raised $75.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
StarTree's investors include Glenn Solomon, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bennu, CRV, Flex Capital, Foundry Group, General Atlantic, H.I.G. Capital, Madrona Ventures, Notable Capital.
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that builds a fully managed real-time analytics platform powered by Apache Pinot, enabling businesses to derive sub-second insights from massive volumes of live and historical data.[1][2][3] It serves enterprises like Stripe, Uber, LinkedIn, DoorDash, and Dialpad, solving the problem of high-concurrency, low-latency OLAP queries that traditional databases struggle with at scale, such as powering user-facing dashboards and anomaly detection without heavy infrastructure overhead.[1][2][4] StarTree has shown strong growth momentum, raising $75 million total (including a $47 million Series B), doubling customers and revenue in 2023, handling over 1 billion queries per week at petabyte scale, and expanding Apache Pinot's community from 100 to 4,500 members while powering hundreds of applications globally.[1][2][3]
StarTree was founded in 2018 in Mountain View, California, by the core engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot from LinkedIn, where the open-source database was initially developed to handle real-time analytics at massive scale for user-facing applications.[1][3] The idea emerged from Pinot's proven success at LinkedIn—quickly adopted by Uber, Target, Etsy, Walmart, and others—prompting the team to commercialize it as a managed cloud service to make deployment easier for broader adoption.[1][2][3] Early traction included explosive growth in Pinot downloads from 50,000 in 2020 to 1 million in 2021, followed by Series B funding in 2022 that expanded the team to over 100 worldwide, and key 2023-2024 milestones like partnerships with Confluent and AWS, plus a strategic investment from Citi.[1][2][3]
StarTree stands out in real-time analytics through these key strengths:
StarTree rides the surge in real-time data analytics, driven by AI/ML demands, edge computing, and user-facing apps requiring instant insights amid exploding data volumes from IoT, e-commerce, and fintech.[2][3][4] Timing is ideal post-pandemic, as firms like Webex scaled analytics during demand spikes, and market forces like cloud-native shifts favor cost-efficient OLAP over legacy warehouses like Snowflake or Elasticsearch.[2][4] It influences the ecosystem by open-sourcing Pinot (now at 1,000+ orgs), fostering community innovation, and enabling partners like AWS/Confluent, democratizing petabyte-scale analytics for startups and enterprises alike.[1][2][3]
StarTree is poised for acceleration with petabyte-scale maturity, expanding partnerships (AWS, Confluent, Citi), and trends like AI-driven anomaly detection and multimodal data processing amplifying real-time needs.[2][3] Next steps likely include deeper AI integrations, global expansion via BYOC/BYOK for regulated sectors, and leveraging Pinot's community to capture more of the $100B+ analytics market. Its influence could evolve from niche Pinot expert to mainstream platform, empowering more businesses—like Stripe's transaction peaks—to thrive in a continuous-insights world, building on its origins as LinkedIn's secret weapon for user-facing scale.[1][3][4]
StarTree has raised $75.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $47.0M Series B in August 2022.
