Datastax

Santa Clara, CA, United States Data Infrastructure Acquired

DataStax is a real-time data for AI company that develops and maintains Apache Cassandra, an open-source distributed NoSQL database. The company provides AstraDB, a cloud-native multi-cloud database service powered by Cassandra with vector database capabilities for generative AI applications, and DataStax Enterprise (DSE), an on-premises version. DataStax also offers Langflow, an open-source low-code AI application development platform, and Astra Streaming, a managed messaging service based on Apache Pulsar. DataStax serves enterprises including FedEx, Capital One, The Home Depot, and Verizon.

Acquired

Datastax has been acquired

Acquired by IBM May 28, 2025

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2010

Employees

600–700

Total Funding

$342.6M

7 rounds

Latest Valuation

$1.6B

June 15, 2022

Funding

Total raised $342.6M across 7 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series G

Date

June 15, 2022

Amount

$115M

Valuation

$1.6B

Lead Investors

Goldman Sachs Asset Management
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
June 15, 2022 Series G $115M $1.6B Goldman Sachs Asset Management
2021 Series F $37.6M Not disclosed
September 4, 2014 Series E $106M Kleiner Perkins

Leadership

  • Chet Kapoor

    Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

  • Jonathan Ellis

    Co-Founder

  • Ed Anuff

    Chief Product Officer

  • Harry Ault

    Chief Revenue Officer

  • Don Dixon

    Chief Financial Officer

  • Davor Bonaci

    Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • MongoDB

    NoSQL document database platform with cloud offerings for app development and data management

  • Couchbase

    NoSQL document database and search platform with flexible deployment options

  • Amazon DynamoDB

    Fully managed NoSQL database service by AWS for key-value and document data

  • Elasticsearch

    Search and analytics engine built on Lucene with distributed architecture

  • Pinecone

    Fully managed vector database platform for AI and similarity search applications

  • Weaviate

    Open-source vector database for semantic search and AI-powered applications

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