Pay-as-you-go market data platform delivering normalized historical and real-time feeds from 70+ venues via a modern API
Fintech📍 Salt Lake City, UTFounded 2019
Current Valuation
$600M
as of 2026-Q3 (est., undisclosed)
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Databento going public?
No. Databento has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Databento's valuation in 2026?
Databento is valued at $600M as of 2026-Q3 (est., undisclosed), set by its Series B ($97M, Jul 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Databento filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Databento.
Who are Databento's investors?
Databento's investors include NEA, DRW Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Tribe Capital, Trousdale Ventures, Fifth Down Capital and 6 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Databento is a market-data infrastructure company founded in 2019 by Christina Qi (ex-Partner at HFT fund Domeyard) that delivers normalized historical and real-time feeds from 70+ exchanges through a pay-as-you-go API, pioneering full order-book delivery over the cloud. After a public launch in 2023 it reached profitability ahead of schedule, grew revenue 6.65x year-over-year with 97% enterprise retention, and now serves 3,000+ companies — from student traders to the largest hedge funds — with fewer than 30 engineers. On July 9, 2026 it raised a $97M Series B led by NEA (with DRW, Redpoint, and Tribe Capital), bringing total funding to $127M against $300M+ of oversubscribed demand. Customers include Nvidia and OpenAI, and the company positions itself as a modern alternative to Bloomberg and LSEG in the $50B+ market-data industry.
Company Profile
CEO
Christina Qi
Founded
2019
HQ
Salt Lake City, UT
Employees
~50
Total Raised
$127M
Last Round
Series B — $97M (Jul 2026) · Lead: New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Fundraising Status
Series B · $97M · 1 mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $127M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series B
$97M
Jul 2026
New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
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Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
20% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
15
via greenhouse
Product-build share
60%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 60% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Counted from Databento's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Christina Qi
Investors
NEA · DRW Venture Capital · Redpoint Ventures · Tribe Capital · Trousdale Ventures · Fifth Down Capital · Cross Creek · Motley Fool Ventures · Operator Collective · Alumni Ventures · Indicator Ventures · Clear Street
Products
Historical market data API (pay-as-you-go)
Live real-time market data feeds
Full order book (MBO) data
Normalized feeds across 70+ trading venues
Competitors
Bloomberg · LSEG (Refinitiv) · ICE Data Services · Polygon.io · Nasdaq Data Link · Kaiko
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q3 (est., undisclosed). Refreshed quarterly.