# Yellowbrick Data

> Yellowbrick Data develops a commercial SQL data platform for enterprise analytics, deployable in customer-controlled AWS, Azure and Google Cloud accounts or on-premises. Its parallel database handles large, mixed analytical workloads while giving organizations control over data location, infrastructure and software spending.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, United States
- **Founders:** Neil Carson (CEO and co-founder), Mark Brinicombe (Co-founder and architect), Jim Dawson (Co-founder; CRO at the 2018 public launch)
- **Products:** Yellowbrick Data Warehouse / SQL Data Platform, Cloud-native elastic data warehouse, Migration and customer support, Yellowbrick MCP Server
- **Notable:** Publicly launched in July 2018 with production customers already using the warehouse., $248 million across the four publicly disclosed funding announcements listed here., Zurich North America reported 55% less time to produce month-end reports in an April 2022 announcement.

## Products & services

- **Yellowbrick Data Warehouse / SQL Data Platform** — Commercial massively parallel SQL warehouse for batch, ad hoc, streaming, BI and AI-related analytical workloads. Generally available from September 2017; publicly unveiled in July 2018.
- **Cloud-native elastic data warehouse** — Kubernetes-based platform with separate storage and compute, deployed in customer cloud accounts or on-premises; the June 2022 release launched on AWS with Azure and GCP then planned. Current product supports all three.
- **Migration and customer support** — Migration assessment, tooling and partner assistance for ETL, BI, schema and data migration; global 24/7 support included in software pricing.
- **Yellowbrick MCP Server** — Public Docker-based connector for natural-language database queries and optional embedding-based document search; README documents read-only mode as the default.

## Achievements

- Publicly launched in July 2018 with production customers already using the warehouse.
- $248 million across the four publicly disclosed funding announcements listed here.
- Zurich North America reported 55% less time to produce month-end reports in an April 2022 announcement.
- Catalina’s vendor-published case study reports 182× faster queries and 8× faster query concurrency versus its prior Netezza deployment.
- Named a 2025 TechForward Awards winner in Data Platform Tech: Data Warehouse and Lakehouse.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Company announcement highlights finance, insurance and government modernization and Constellation Research shortlist recognition.
- **2025-08** — August 27 announcement reports a TechForward Awards win; newsroom listing carries September 2.
- **2026-07** — Official GitHub organization shows YellowbrickMCP activity dated July 24, 2026.
- **2026-08** — Official GitHub organization shows deployment contributions updated August 17 and the CLI repository updated August 20, 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://yellowbrick.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yellowbrickdata/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/yellowbrickdata
- GitHub: https://github.com/YellowbrickData
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/yellowbrickdata/

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