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Databento funding, valuation and investors
Market data API platform for modern finance and quant workflows.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$97M · July 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$97M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series b
Overview
Databento provides a developer-friendly market data infrastructure platform with normalized APIs for equities, futures, options, and crypto data. In July 2026 the company closed an oversubscribed $97M Series B led by New Enterprise Associates with more than $300M in total demand. DRW Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital participated. NEA's Rick Yang joined the board.
Why Databento is interesting
Market data is still sold like it's 1999 — Databento's API-first packaging attracted $300M+ in demand for a Series B, signaling quant builders want pay-as-you-go data pipes.
Product & use cases
Cloud market data delivery with unified schemas, historical and live feeds, and usage-based pricing for researchers and trading firms.
- Backtesting quantitative strategies
- Live trading data feeds for systematic funds
- Alternative data enrichment for fintech apps
Key facts
- Series B (Jul 2026): $97M led by NEA
- Oversubscribed; $300M+ total demand cited
- Board: NEA Rick Yang director, Danielle Lay observer
- Co-investors: DRW VC, Tribe Capital
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Modern API and pricing versus legacy terminal bundles from incumbents; developer experience as moat.
Market data is sticky once strategies depend on schemas, but price compression pressures margins. Databento wins on onboarding speed; NEA's oversubscribed round signals institutional validation of the model.
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Bloomberg / Refinitiv incumbent
Terminal incumbents with bundled data contracts.
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Polygon.io direct
Developer market data API peer.
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Quandl / Nasdaq Data Link adjacent
Historical data marketplaces with different packaging.
Notable stories
- VCT reported NEA moved decisively on an oversubscribed round reflecting its all-stage tech mandate and scale.
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