# Promethium

> Promethium is a Menlo Park-based enterprise data company that builds an Instant Data Fabric - an agentic platform designed to give business users, analysts, and AI agents trusted, self-service access to data across hundreds of sources without first moving or centralizing it. Its federated query engine, 360 Context Engine, and conversational data-answer agent Mantra translate natural-language questions into governed SQL, metadata, lineage, and visualizations. Founded in 2018 by Kaycee Lai and now led by CEO Prat Moghe, the company has raised about $34.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, California, United States
- **Founders:** Kaycee Lai (Founder, now Chief Strategy Officer)
- **Team size:** ~34 employees
- **Products:** Instant Data Fabric, Mantra (Data Answer Agent), 360 Context Engine, Agentic Analytics Platform
- **Notable:** Recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor., Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification., Raised approximately $34.5 million in total funding, including a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners.

## Products & services

- **Instant Data Fabric** — A federated data platform that provides access to data across 200+ cloud, on-premises, and SaaS sources without ETL, movement, or duplication - data is queried where it lives.
- **Mantra (Data Answer Agent)** — A conversational agent that turns natural-language questions into governed answers complete with generated SQL, metadata, lineage, visualizations, and built-in governance, shareable directly into existing business tools and AI systems.
- **360 Context Engine** — A context layer that combines technical metadata with business logic so answers align with how the organization actually works, improving relevance across hundreds of sources.
- **Agentic Analytics Platform** — An open agentic architecture purpose-built to deliver self-service data at AI scale, connecting AI agents and analysts to trusted enterprise data.

## Achievements

- Recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification.
- Raised approximately $34.5 million in total funding, including a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners.
- Introduced what it calls the first agentic platform purpose-built to deliver self-service data at AI scale (2025).
- Appointed veteran data executive Prat Moghe as CEO to scale the company (2024).

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Promethium introduced its agentic platform and Mantra data-answer agent, positioning the Instant Data Fabric for self-service data access by AI agents at enterprise scale.
- **2024-10** — Promethium named Prat Moghe as its new CEO and expanded its leadership team; founder Kaycee Lai moved to Chief Strategy Officer.
- **2022-02** — Promethium raised a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners to scale customer growth.

## Links

- Website: https://promethium.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pm61data
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/promethiumi

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