Startup profile for dbt Labs: what they do, why they are interesting, stage (growth), industries, and links to our funding articles. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.

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dbt Labs

Analytics engineering framework and platform (dbt) for transforming warehouse data.

Stage

growth

Status

private

Coverage

full

Why dbt Labs is interesting

dbt made 'analytics engineering' a discipline; its metrics layer is now the foundation many enterprises use before layering AI on trusted data.

Key facts

  • Series D (Feb 2022): $222M at $4.2B led by Altimeter with Sequoia, Coatue, Tiger Global, a16z (dbt press, Forbes)
  • a16z led 2020 Series A; Sequoia joined prior rounds (Forbes)

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Industries

Infrastructure & Cloud Developer Tools Enterprise SaaS

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Funding context and why this company shows up in venture coverage.

dbt Labs develops dbt, an analytics engineering framework that lets data teams transform, test, and document data in cloud warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) led the 2020 Series A. Sequoia (/fund/sequoia), Coatue (/fund/coatue), Tiger Global (/fund/tiger-global-management), and Altimeter led or joined later rounds including the $222M Series D in 2022.
dbt Labs raised a $222M Series D in February 2022 at a $4.2B valuation led by Altimeter Capital. It remains a private growth-stage company.
dbt standardized how modern data teams build reliable pipelines and metrics — creating a shared layer that enterprises now extend with AI and semantic search on top of governed data.
No. dbt Labs is privately held as of July 2026.

Last updated: 2026-07-24