Starburst Scores $100M Series C

Starburst, the analytics anywhere company, has announced $100 million in Series C funding, bringing the three-year-old company's total financing to $164 million and valuation to $1.2 billion. The financing round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors Coatue and Index Ventures. Starburst customers include Comcast, FINRA, Cond�© Nast and Zalando, and its growth continues to be fueled by the fundamental shift in how organizations approach data access and analytics.

Starburst is on a mission to power analytics anywhere. Founded by the creators of open-source Presto, Starburst unlocks the value of data by making it fast and easy to access anywhere. Starburst is the only commercial open source company that queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the tools that work best for their business.