# Firebolt

> Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company building a low-latency, high-concurrency analytical database for engineers building data-intensive and AI applications. Founded in 2019 by former Sisense leaders, it decouples storage and compute to deliver sub-second SQL queries over terabyte- and petabyte-scale datasets, positioning itself on price-performance against Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery and ClickHouse. Firebolt has raised roughly $269 million and reached a $1.4 billion valuation as a unicorn.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States (with R&D in Tel Aviv, Israel)
- **Founders:** Eldad Farkash (Co-founder & CEO), Saar Bitner (Co-founder & COO), Ariel Yaroshevich (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~200 employees
- **Products:** Firebolt Cloud Data Warehouse, Firebolt Engines, Firebolt SDKs, FireScale Benchmark
- **Notable:** Reached unicorn status with a $1.4B valuation at its 2022 Series C., Raised approximately $269M across Series A, B and C rounds., Published FireScale benchmark claiming 8x better price-performance than Snowflake, 18x than Redshift and 90x than BigQuery.

## Products & services

- **Firebolt Cloud Data Warehouse** — A cloud-native analytical database that decouples storage and compute, delivering sub-second Postgres-compatible SQL over terabyte- and petabyte-scale data with high concurrency.
- **Firebolt Engines** — Next-generation compute infrastructure offering storage-optimized and compute-optimized families so teams can tune price-performance per workload and scale independently of data volume.
- **Firebolt SDKs** — Developer SDKs for Python, Node, Java, Go and .NET to embed Firebolt analytics into applications and automate testing and deployment.
- **FireScale Benchmark** — An open benchmark simulating real-world low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, used to compare Firebolt against Snowflake, Redshift and BigQuery.

## Achievements

- Reached unicorn status with a $1.4B valuation at its 2022 Series C.
- Raised approximately $269M across Series A, B and C rounds.
- Published FireScale benchmark claiming 8x better price-performance than Snowflake, 18x than Redshift and 90x than BigQuery.
- Enabled Similarweb to run 100 queries per second on over 1PB of production data with millisecond latency.
- Delivered a 400x query performance improvement for Bigabid's real-time ad auctions.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Introduced FireScale, an open benchmark for low-latency/high-concurrency workloads, publishing price-performance comparisons against Snowflake, Redshift and BigQuery.
- **2024-09** — Announced general availability of its next-generation low-latency cloud data warehouse aimed at AI and customer-facing data applications.
- **2024-01** — Launched Firebolt Engines with storage-optimized and compute-optimized compute families for granular price-performance control.

## Links

- Website: https://www.firebolt.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firebolt
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FireboltHQ
- GitHub: https://github.com/firebolt-db
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fireboltanalytics
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/firebolthq/

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Last updated: 2026-07-15