Imply is an Analytical Databases company founded in 2015 and based in Burlingame, United States. It has raised $215.3M in total funding, most recently a Series D in 2022 at a $1.1B valuation.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2022 | Series D | $100M | $1.1B | Thoma Bravo |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Series C | $70M | $700M |
| Bessemer Venture Partners |
| Jan 1, 2019 | Series B | $30M | $350M | — |
| Jan 1, 2018 | Series A | $13.3M | — | — |
| Jan 1, 2015 | Seed | $2M | — | — |
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A fully managed DBaaS built on Apache Druid for real-time analytics at sub-second query speeds. Supports native connector-less ingestion from Kafka, Confluent Cloud, and Amazon Kinesis with exactly-once semantics. Includes the Pivot visualization engine for building data cubes and dashboards, and federated queries with separation of compute and storage.
A commercially supported distribution of Apache Druid for organizations running on-premises or in their own cloud, backed by the creators of the open-source project. Provides production support, security patches, and enterprise connectors for AdTech, gaming, and operational analytics use cases requiring sub-second query latency over streaming and event data.
An observability warehouse product launched in September 2025 as a decoupled data layer for engineering observability workloads. Targets log analytics, metrics, and trace storage use cases, positioning Imply's Druid-based real-time engine against Elasticsearch and ClickHouse for high-ingest, high-cardinality observability data.
3 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.