Starburst is a Query Engines company founded in 2017 and based in Boston, United States. It has raised $350M in total funding, most recently a Series D in 2022 at a $3.4B valuation.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2022 | Series D | $250M | $3.4B | Alkeon Capital Management |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Series C | $100M | — |
| Andreessen Horowitz |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Series B | — | — | Coatue |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Series A | — | — | Index Ventures |
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A fully managed Trino-as-a-service offering that deploys in minutes, auto-scales with demand, and shuts down when idle. Designed for data lake and lakehouse analytics teams that need federated SQL across disparate sources — S3, Hive, Iceberg, Delta Lake, RDBMS — without data movement. Gained 76% adoption growth year-over-year in fiscal 2025 as enterprises expanded data mesh and open table format adoption.
A self-managed distribution of Trino with enterprise-grade security, workload management, RBAC, and performance optimizations layered on top of the open-source query engine. Supports data access policies and audit logging across federations of 50+ data sources, including legacy databases and modern lakehouses. Used by global financial institutions for multi-environment, on-premises, and hybrid-cloud federated analytics.
A natural language interface for querying data and building data products directly within the Starburst platform. Allows analysts and business users to explore federated data sources and create governed data products without writing SQL. Positioned for agentic RAG workflows where enterprise data must be retrieved across multiple systems with governance controls intact.