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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

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Latest 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

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

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

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/amazons-aws-acquired-amiato/

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andreessen-horowitz

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.

  • Fivetran / Stitch (era peers) adjacent

    ELT connectors matured later; Amiato early NoSQL niche.

  • 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).

Industries

infra-cloud enterprise-saas

Market / IPO context

Editorial / static context — not a live quote.

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FAQs about Amiato

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Amiato migrated unstructured NoSQL data into structured Amazon Redshift tables for analytics.
Amazon Web Services acquired Amiato in May 2014 per TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz), Data Collective, and Ignition Partners in $2M seed (2013).
No — acquired by AWS in 2014; technology and team integrated into Amazon.
Yes — Y Combinator Winter 2012 batch.
May 2014 by Amazon/AWS.
To bolster NoSQL-to-Redshift migration for analytics customers on AWS — typical infra tuck-in.
Fivetran became dominant ELT later. Amiato was early NoSQL-specific migration acquired before category matured.
Seed-stage startup post-$2M raise.
Palo Alto, California area.
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