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Starburst funding, valuation and investors

Enterprise Trino SQL engine for querying data without moving it to a warehouse.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Series D

$250M · February 2022

Latest known valuation

$3.35B

Series D · February 2022

Total disclosed equity funding

$350M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · Boston, Massachusetts

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Alkeon Capital

Other: Andreessen Horowitz , Coatue , Index Ventures , Altimeter Capital , B Capital Group

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

Overview

Starburst sells an enterprise distribution of Trino (formerly Presto SQL), enabling federated analytics queries across data lakes, warehouses, and databases without ETL copying. Founded by creators of Facebook's Presto engine, the Boston company raised $100M Series C in January 2021 led by a16z and $250M Series D in February 2022 at $3.35B led by Alkeon Capital with Coatue, Index, Altimeter, and B Capital participating.

Why Starburst is interesting

Data mesh prerequisite — Facebook Presto creators commercialized federated query at $3.35B valuation with $414M+ raised including a16z Series C lead.

Product & use cases

Starburst Galaxy and Enterprise Trino let analysts run SQL across S3, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Postgres, and 50+ sources from a single query layer — data mesh architecture enabler.

  • Federated analytics without data duplication
  • Data mesh query access layer
  • Lakehouse SQL on open table formats
  • Cross-cloud analytics governance

Key facts

  • Series D (Feb 2022): $250M at $3.35B — Starburst blog
  • Series C (Jan 2021): $100M led by a16z
  • Founded by Facebook Presto creators
  • Enterprise Trino federated SQL engine

Funding history (newest first)

Series D

2022-02 $250M Valuation: $3.35B

Source: https://www.starburst.io/blog/series-d-funding/

Series C

2021-01 $100M

Source: https://www.starburst.io/blog/series-c-funding/

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Starburst's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Index Ventures Coatue B Capital Group Altimeter Capital

Competitive landscape

Edge: Team that built Presto at Facebook scale — deepest Trino engineering talent and enterprise support.

Starburst bets enterprises want query federation vs single warehouse. Databricks and Snowflake push consolidation; Starburst wins in multi-vendor data estates. $3.35B prices in data mesh adoption.

  • Databricks SQL direct

    Lakehouse SQL with Spark/Delta; integrated platform vs federated query.

  • Snowflake incumbent

    Central warehouse model Starburst avoids via federated approach.

  • Dremio direct

    Data lakehouse SQL engine competitor.

  • Amazon Athena adjacent

    Serverless Presto/Trino on S3; less multi-source federation.

Notable stories

  • Presto powered Facebook's internal analytics before creators left to commercialize as Starburst — open-source Trino fork continues community development.
  • a16z led Series C as data mesh architecture gained enterprise architect mindshare vs warehouse-only strategies.

Industries

Enterprise SaaS Infrastructure & Cloud AI & Machine Learning

FAQs about Starburst

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

Starburst provides enterprise Trino SQL engine to query data across lakes, warehouses, and databases without moving data.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz), Index (/fund/index-ventures), Coatue (/fund/coatue), Altimeter (/fund/altimeter-capital), and B Capital (/fund/b-capital-group).
Snowflake centralizes data in its warehouse. Starburst federates queries across existing sources without full migration.
Open-source distributed SQL query engine (Presto fork) for analytics on large datasets.
February 2022 Series D at $3.35B per Starburst blog.
Justin Borgman, Mario Tricoci, Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom among leadership — Presto origin team.
Databricks offers integrated lakehouse. Starburst focuses on federated SQL layer across heterogeneous sources.
January 2021 — $100M Series C.
Private; profitability not publicly disclosed.
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