# Portable

> Portable is a New York-based ELT platform that builds data connectors on-demand, specializing in the long tail of niche business applications that larger integration vendors ignore. Founded in 2020 by Ethan Aaron, it lets data teams pull data from thousands of sources into warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and PostgreSQL with no code, flat predictable pricing regardless of data volume, and hands-on custom connector development delivered in hours or days.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ethan Aaron (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~18-23 employees across 5 continents
- **Products:** Prebuilt ELT Connectors, On-Demand Connector Development, Data Warehouse Integration, Premium Support & Managed Maintenance
- **Notable:** Grew from a bootstrapped, hand-built connector project to 1,500+ prebuilt connectors., Raised $3.2M seed funding in August 2022., Introduced flat, no-volume ELT pricing in a market dominated by usage-based billing.

## Products & services

- **Prebuilt ELT Connectors** — A library of 1,500+ ready-to-use connectors that extract and load data from business applications into cloud data warehouses with no code.
- **On-Demand Connector Development** — Custom connectors built by Portable's team for niche or requested sources, typically delivered in hours or days rather than months.
- **Data Warehouse Integration** — Native loading into Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and PostgreSQL, with incremental and scheduled syncing.
- **Premium Support & Managed Maintenance** — Hands-on customer support and connector maintenance, including 24/7 premium tiers, so data teams don't troubleshoot broken pipelines themselves.

## Achievements

- Grew from a bootstrapped, hand-built connector project to 1,500+ prebuilt connectors.
- Raised $3.2M seed funding in August 2022.
- Introduced flat, no-volume ELT pricing in a market dominated by usage-based billing.
- Built a distributed team spanning five continents while staying under ~25 people.
- Set a public goal of scaling to 10,000 connectors built on demand.

## Latest updates

- **2022-08** — Closed a $3.2M seed round to expand connector coverage and support.
- **2025-09** — Connector library surpassed 1,500 prebuilt integrations.

## Links

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

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Last updated: 2026-07-03