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Amiato funding, valuation and investors
NoSQL-to-warehouse data migration for cloud analytics; acquired by AWS in 2014.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$2M · 2013
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$2M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
acquired
acquired · Palo Alto, California
Investors in latest funding
Other: Andreessen Horowitz , Data Collective
Overview
Amiato built data migration and ETL tooling to move unstructured NoSQL database content into structured Amazon Redshift tables for analytics. A Y Combinator Winter 2012 company, Amiato raised a $2M seed round in 2013 from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, and Ignition Partners. Amazon Web Services acquired Amiato in May 2014 — team and technology absorbed into AWS analytics offerings per TechCrunch reporting.
Why Amiato is interesting
YC W12 company extracting unstructured NoSQL into Redshift tables — a16z seed before Amazon quietly acquired the team and tech.
Product & use cases
Amiato's software scanned NoSQL stores (MongoDB-class workloads) and normalized records into relational schemas suitable for Redshift BI queries — bridging operational data stores and warehouse analytics before modern ELT tools matured.
- Analytics teams querying NoSQL application data via Redshift without manual schema design
- Startups on AWS consolidating operational and analytics data pipelines
- Migration projects from document stores to warehouse-centric BI stacks
Key facts
- Acquired by AWS (May 2014): NoSQL-to-Redshift migration tech — TechCrunch
- Seed (2013): $2M from a16z, Data Collective, Ignition Partners
- Y Combinator W12 alumni
Funding history (newest first)
Seed
2013 $2M- Andreessen Horowitz (participant)
- Data Collective (participant)
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/amazons-aws-acquired-amiato/
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Early focus on NoSQL-to-Redshift specifically matched AWS ecosystem buying — likely motivated Amazon acquisition vs. independent scale.
2012–14 data infrastructure was pre-modern ELT boom. Amiato's AWS acquisition is classic acqui-hire for analytics gap. a16z seed returned via Amazon exit — modest outcome typical of infra tuck-ins.
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Fivetran / Stitch (era peers) adjacent
ELT connectors matured later; Amiato early NoSQL niche.
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AWS Glue (post-acquisition) incumbent
Amazon integrated migration capabilities into broader analytics stack.
Notable stories
- AWS acquired Amiato quietly in May 2014 — team joined to strengthen analytics migration capabilities (TechCrunch retrospective, 2015).
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