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San Francisco, California

5.0/ 5

2 reviews

SingleStore is a private, distributed relational database management system (RDBMS) provider tailored for enterprise AI, transactional (OLTP), and real-time analytical (OLAP) processing workloads. Founded on January 1, 2011, by former Facebook and Microsoft engineers Eric Frenkiel, Nikita Shamgunov, and Adam Prout, the company was originally launched through Y Combinator’s Winter 2011 batch under the name MemSQL. The founders aimed to bridge the divide between transactional and analytical databases, building a memory-optimized SQL engine engineered to handle high-concurrency and data-intensive applications at a petabyte scale. In October 2020, the company rebranded to SingleStore to better reflect its consolidated architecture—offering a single platform capable of unifying relational, JSON, geospatial, full-text, key-value, and vector data types. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and maintains an extensive global presence with offices and regional hubs in Sunnyvale, California; Seattle, Washington; Raleigh, North Carolina; London, England; Lisbon, Portugal; Dublin, Ireland; Singapore; and Hyderabad, India. Its Indian subsidiary, SingleStore India Private Limited, was incorporated on May 23, 2020. Across its global operations, SingleStore employs between 380 and 464 professionals. SingleStore's cloud-native database platform is highly optimized for the demands of modern artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Its unified engine features an in-memory rowstore and an on-disk columnstore to drive horizontal scalability, ultra-low latency, and fast data ingestion through proprietary technology called SingleStore Pipelines. It can be deployed across various Linux environments, on-premises infrastructures, or managed via public cloud platforms under its hosted service, SingleStore Helios, which integrates with providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. The database provides broad compatibility with the modern data ecosystem, positioning it as a direct competitor to major infrastructure platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Aurora, and Cockroach Labs. Financially, SingleStore has raised approximately $558 million to $582 million in venture funding over 14 operational rounds, backed by prominent institutional investors including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Insight Partners, Vector Capital, Accel, Khosla Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Google Ventures, Sanabil Investments, and Prosperity7 Ventures. Its last major financing round in October 2022 valued the enterprise at over $1 billion. The company serves nearly 50 of the Fortune 500 companies across dozens of verticals—including finance, technology, marketing, and healthcare. Led by CEO Raj Verma, SingleStore continues to expand its technology stack through product-led growth and strategic market acquisitions, such as its merger with data replication software provider BryteFlow in October 2024.