# Tecton

> Tecton is a managed feature platform that turns batch, streaming, and request-time data into reusable inputs for production machine learning and AI applications. Founded by veterans of Uber’s Michelangelo platform, it serves enterprise use cases such as fraud, risk, ranking, and personalization and announced a sale to Databricks in August 2025.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Mike Del Balso (Co-founder and CEO), Kevin Stumpf (Co-founder and CTO), Jeremy Hermann (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Tecton Feature Platform, Rift, GenAI context capabilities, Feast (open-source contribution)
- **Notable:** Announced $160 million in total funding by July 2022., Reported customer base growth of more than fivefold over the 12 months preceding July 2022., Atlassian reported reducing feature build and deployment time from one to three months to one day and improving more than 200,000 customer interactions daily.

## Products & services

- **Tecton Feature Platform** — Managed feature definition, computation, registry, monitoring, historical retrieval, and low-latency online serving for production ML.
- **Rift** — Tecton’s Python-native compute engine for feature processing; public preview announced with Tecton 0.9.
- **GenAI context capabilities** — Expanded support for embeddings, prompts, and real-time context alongside predictive ML features.
- **Feast (open-source contribution)** — Tecton was a major contributor and financial supporter of the independently governed open-source feature store.

## Achievements

- Announced $160 million in total funding by July 2022.
- Reported customer base growth of more than fivefold over the 12 months preceding July 2022.
- Atlassian reported reducing feature build and deployment time from one to three months to one day and improving more than 200,000 customer interactions daily.
- Tide adopted Tecton for most production models after a six-week proof of concept.
- Announced a Databricks acquisition agreement in August 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Databricks announced an agreement to acquire Tecton and integrate real-time data serving with its AI tools; deal terms were undisclosed.
- **2024-09** — Tecton announced an expanded platform for generative AI context, including embeddings and prompts.
- **2024-04** — Rift, a Python-native compute engine, entered public preview.
- **2024-02** — Feast announced a broader group of official maintainers after years of substantial Tecton contributions.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tecton.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tectonai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TectonAI/
- GitHub: https://github.com/tecton-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tecton8241
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Tectonai/

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