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The Lakehouse Has a Janitor. It’s Called Onehouse.
Open data is a lovely idea until the tables need tending. Onehouse sells the machinery that keeps a lakehouse fresh, fast, and available to more than one engine.
The Dashboard That Broke at the Moment It Mattered
A fintech wanted to sell its merchants a live view of their own transactions. The dashboard looked like a product until traffic arrived; e6data's wager is that the expensive part of analytics is often the engine, not the data.
Starburst Bet $414 Million That Your Data Should Stay Put
The Boston data company crossed $100 million in recurring revenue by challenging a lucrative industry habit: moving every last byte into one central warehouse. Its pitch is simpler - bring the query to the data.
Dremio Made the Data Lake Usable. Then SAP Came Shopping
The enterprise-data startup bet that companies would rather query their lakes than keep copying them into warehouses. A decade, roughly $407 million in funding and one SAP acquisition later, that argument has become the center of the AI stack.
Firetiger Built a Watchtower for Every Deploy - Then Cursor Bought the View
A seven-person startup taught AI agents to babysit your deploys and tell you, in one word, whether the change was healthy. Two years and $7.6M later, Cursor absorbed the team to close the loop from writing code to running it.
Cloudera Is Turning Its Hadoop Inheritance Into an AI Anywhere Bet
The company that helped commercialize Hadoop is betting its next act on a stubborn enterprise reality: sensitive data rarely lives in one cloud. Cloudera now wants to be the governed layer that lets analytics and AI travel to the data, wherever it sits.
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.
DeltaStream
DeltaStream is a Menlo Park-based company building a unified, serverless stream processing platform on top of Apache Flink. Founded in 2021 by Hojjat Jafarpour, the creator of ksqlDB, it lets teams build real-time streaming applications and pipelines using SQL - without wrestling with Flink's operational complexity. Its Fusion platform combines streaming, real-time, and batch analytics into a single serverless experience, integrating with Kafka, Kinesis, Snowflake, Databricks, and Apache Iceberg. The company has raised $25M total, backed by NEA, Galaxy Interactive, and Sanabil.
RisingWave
RisingWave is a distributed SQL streaming database that lets developers ingest, transform, and serve real-time data using familiar PostgreSQL-compatible SQL instead of specialized stream-processing frameworks. Founded in 2021 by former AWS Redshift engineer Yingjun Wu, the San Francisco company decouples compute from storage in a cloud-native architecture, offers incremental materialized views, and integrates natively with Apache Iceberg to power a streaming lakehouse. Its open-source engine and managed RisingWave Cloud target fraud detection, monitoring, real-time analytics, and increasingly the data infrastructure behind agentic AI.