# MotherDuck

> MotherDuck provides a managed, serverless analytics warehouse built on DuckDB. It combines local and cloud SQL execution, isolated compute for users, database sharing, and tools for data pipelines, interactive applications and AI-assisted analysis.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Jordan Tigani (Co-founder and CEO), Ryan Boyd (Co-founder), Tino Tereshko (Co-founder), Leila Horejsi (Co-founder), DuckDB Labs (Organizational co-founder and original technology partner)
- **Products:** MotherDuck cloud warehouse, Hypertenancy, Managed DuckLake, Dives, Flights
- **Notable:** General availability announced June 11, 2024., SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance announced February 2025., US$100 million in cumulative announced financing by September 2023.

## Products & services

- **MotherDuck cloud warehouse** — Managed DuckDB analytics with local-cloud execution and shared databases.
- **Hypertenancy** — Isolated user compute, individually sized instances and read replicas.
- **Managed DuckLake** — Managed open lakehouse storage with database-backed metadata.
- **Dives** — Interactive data applications and visualizations built with AI agents.
- **Flights** — Hosted Python jobs for ingestion and transformation.
- **MCP server** — Connects AI clients to MotherDuck analytics tools.
- **DuckDB enterprise support** — Commercial support for open-source DuckDB deployments.
- **prompt_jev()** — SQL text classification through TypeSafe AI’s Jev model.

## Achievements

- General availability announced June 11, 2024.
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance announced February 2025.
- US$100 million in cumulative announced financing by September 2023.
- PriceMedic reports roughly US$20,000 monthly savings after its architecture change.
- Stern Risk Partners reports dbt runtime falling from two hours to seven minutes.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Acquired Tower Computing Inc., the runtime provider behind Flights; acquisition price not disclosed in the announcement.
- **2026-08** — Introduced a CLI and agent signup API.
- **2026-09** — Launched commercial support for open-source DuckDB.
- **2026-09** — Added prompt_jev() text classification to paid plans.

## Links

- Website: https://motherduck.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/motherduck/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/motherduck
- GitHub: https://github.com/motherduckdb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@motherduckdb

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Last updated: 2026-10-06