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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
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MotherDuck
MotherDuck is a cloud data platform company founded in 2022 by Jordan Tigani, a former lead engineer on Google BigQuery, together with engineers from AWS, Databricks and Snowflake, working closely…
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SingleStore
SingleStore is a database company founded in 2011 in San Francisco, United States, originally as MemSQL, that set out to remove the need for separate transactional and analytical database systems…
RudderStack
RudderStack is a customer data platform company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, United States, created to give teams an open-source-based alternative for collecting and unifying customer event…
Sigma Computing
Sigma Computing is a cloud analytics company founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, United States, built to let business users explore and act on data stored in cloud…
Astronomer
Astronomer is a data orchestration company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, that has been the commercial steward of the open-source Apache Airflow project since 2018, helping enterprises coordinate and…
ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a column-oriented database company whose engine began as a research project in 2009 and was released as open source in 2016; the business was incorporated in the San…
Alation
Alation is a US company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, providing a data catalog and governance platform that helps enterprises make their data assets accurate, discoverable…
Cube
Cube (Cube Dev) is a US company headquartered in San Francisco, California, building an agentic analytics platform centered on a semantic layer that acts as a single source of truth…
Starburst
Starburst is a US company founded in 2017 by the creators of Apache Trino and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, building an enterprise data platform that lets organizations query data across…
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo Data is a US company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, offering a data and AI observability platform that helps data teams detect and resolve…