# DualBird

> DualBird is a Boston-based data infrastructure company building a cloud-native engine that brings hardware-grade acceleration to big data and AI workloads. By running rewritable FPGA silicon on AWS as a software service, DualBird plugs into existing Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg pipelines and claims 10-100x faster processing at 50-90% lower cost, without asking teams to change their code or workflows. The company raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in November 2025.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Gilad Tal (Co-Founder & CEO (previously CTO)), Amir Gilad (Co-Founder & CEO (deceased, April 2026)), Ehud Eliaz (Co-Founder & Chief Hardware Architect), Ohad Gamliel (Co-Founder & Chief Engineer)
- **Team size:** ~30-34 employees
- **Products:** DualBird Data & AI Infra Engine, Apache Spark Plug-in, Apache Iceberg Support
- **Notable:** Raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (November 2025), Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Angular Ventures and Uncork Capital, Claims to be first to deliver hardware-style FPGA acceleration in a software-only, cloud-native form

## Products & services

- **DualBird Data & AI Infra Engine** — A cloud-native engine that uses rewritable FPGA silicon on AWS to accelerate data processing at the hardware level, delivering 10-100x faster performance and 50-90% lower cost with no changes to existing systems.
- **Apache Spark Plug-in** — A lightweight plug-in that links a customer's existing Apache Spark environment to DualBird's engine, eliminating manual tuning and reducing shuffle data, data skews and disk spills.
- **Apache Iceberg Support** — Native support for the Apache Iceberg table format, running acceleration on Amazon EC2 F2 (FPGA) instances.

## Achievements

- Raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (November 2025)
- Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Angular Ventures and Uncork Capital
- Claims to be first to deliver hardware-style FPGA acceleration in a software-only, cloud-native form
- Reported 10-100x performance gains and 50-90% cost reduction on data processing workloads
- Built a founding team combining semiconductor (ASIC/FPGA) and cloud software expertise from AWS and Intel

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Announced $25M in combined Seed and Series A funding ($8M seed + $17M Series A) led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to rebuild the foundation of analytics and AI data infrastructure.
- **2026-01** — General availability of the DualBird engine planned for early 2026.
- **2026-04** — Co-founder and CEO Amir Gilad died unexpectedly; the company vowed to carry forward his vision.

## Links

- Website: https://dualbird.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dualbird

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