USA – MotherDuck, a Seattle, WA-based builder of a serverless, data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, raised $52.5m in Series B funding.
The round, which puts MotherDuck at a $400M post-money valuation and brings their total funding to date to $100M, was led by Felicis, with participation from new and existing investors a16z, Madrona, Amplify Partners, Altimeter, Redpoint, Zero Prime, among others. Felicis General Partner Viviana Faga will join MotherDuck’s Board of Directors. Led by Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck provides a serverless, data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB. Its notebook-like SQL environment enables users to query local and remote data using a hybrid execution engine. The Modern Duck Stack is a suite of integrations which provide everything they need alongside MotherDuck for their data engineering pipelines: orchestration, ingestion, transformation, business intelligence, data science and AI capabilities.Following their initial product launch in June, the company announced 16 integrations with the platform. Today, MotherDuck is announcing 11 more: Cube, dltHub, Evidence, GoodData, Kestra, Metabase, InfinyOn, LlamaIndex, Sling, Streamlit, and Voltron Data. Airbyte will be available to users today, while integrations with Fivetran and Tableau are both underway.20/09/2023
