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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.