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Funding and backers

Team
240
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +1% in a year
Hiring now
6
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Sumeru Equity Partners, Menlo Ventures
Momentum
22/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 17, 2024 Launched Actian Launches Zen 16.0, the Next Generation Database for Edge Computing · PRNewswire 1980 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
70 public repositories
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Actian hires

Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
91 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
17%
Reposted roles
0%

Actian scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 17% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 91 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 2

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Overview

Actian is a data management software company that develops databases, data integration and analytics products for enterprises. Its portfolio includes the Ingres and Actian X databases, the Vector analytics database, the Zen embedded database and the Actian Data Intelligence Platform for data cataloguing and governance, deployable on premises, in the cloud or in hybrid setups. A division of HCLSoftware, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States.

News

Award PRNewswire 2 months ago
Actian Wins
/PRNewswire/ -- Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, has been named the winner of the Best Data-Driven SaaS Innovation category in The 2026 SaaS...
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Report
DBTA 100 2026: The Companies That Matter Most in Data
The big data and analytics space has been shaken up by the increasing pressure to integrate AI into the business or be left behind. However, diving headfirst without guardrails can be a high-stakes introduction to AI. To help bring new resources and innov
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DBTA 100 2026: The Companies That Matter Most in Data
The big data and analytics space has been shaken up by the increasing pressure to integrate AI into the business or be left behind. However, diving headfirst without guardrails can be a high-stakes introduction to AI. To help bring new resources and innov
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News Data Technologies 6 months ago
Actian targets secure, compliant AI with new vector database TechTarget
With VectorAI DB, Actian is providing a vector database for AI tools developed by organizations in industries where compliance and security are at a premium.
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Award YahooFinance 10 months ago
Actian Wins InfoWorld 2025 Technology of the Year Award
Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, today announced it was named the winner of the Data Management: Governance category in the Foundry
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Actian Embeds Data Contracts, Governance by Design into Development Workflows to Increase Data Reliability
Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, today announced Actian Data Intelligence Platform enhancements that enable enterprises to transform how they make distributed data trustworthy and reliable at the source before consumption, creating a solid founda
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News Nucleus Research 1 year ago
ROI case study: Actian at GEMA
GEMA achieved a 140 percent ROI by implementing Actian with a payback period of 15.1 months. Read the full Actian ROI case study.
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News Nucleus Research 1 year ago
ROI case study: Actian at GEMA
GEMA achieved a 140 percent ROI by implementing Actian with a payback period of 15.1 months. Read the full Actian ROI case study.
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News FinanzNachrichten.de 1 year ago
B2Press BV: digna Introduces Major Platform Update Enhancing Enterprise Data Quality and Observability
Vienna, Austria--(Newsfile Corp. - March 2, 2026) - digna has published its latest platform update, continuing the development of its data quality and observability platform, and reinforcing its architectural
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Using Actian for generative AI data readiness
Unlock the power of generative AI with Actian. Learn how to prepare your data for cutting-edge applications and improve accuracy and relevancy.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Actian over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
76
Postings analysed
17
Stack modernity
74/100
Languages
Python29%
Java18%
SQL12%
JavaScript12%
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain12%
Commander.js6%
Cypress6%
LlamaIndex6%
Databases
Milvus12%
Snowflake12%
BigQuery6%
Google BigQuery6%
Cloud & platforms
AWS41%
Azure35%
GCP35%
Kubernetes35%
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Full Actian tech stack 76 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
5
1 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
92 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
40% ▲
AI/ML
20% ▼
Backend
20% ▼
Solutions
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Google BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added Databricks to stack Oct 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
1
Countries
4
Busiest office
Round Rock
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Santa Clara United States
HQ
Santa Clara, CA (HQ)
2600 Great America Way, Suite 401, Santa Clara, CA 95054
company site
Round Rock United States
Sales office
Round Rock, TX
1 open roles $85k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
710 Hesters Crossing Road
seen since May 2026 company site, job postings
Paris France
Regional office
Paris, France
27 Avenue de l'Opéra, 75001 Paris France
company site
London United Kingdom
Regional office
London, UK
78 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6AF, UK
company site
Hamburg Germany
Regional office
Hamburg, Germany
22359 Hamburg Germany
company site
Ilmenau Germany
Regional office
Ilmenau, Germany
Weimarer Str. 1a, D-98693 Ilmenau Germany
company site

Jobs

≈ $119k – $234k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
SQL
Snowflake
Oracle
Milvus
Qdrant
Teradata
AI/ML
LangChain
RAG
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
Looker
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≈ $94k – $155k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United Kingdom
AI Agents
Management
Agile
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≈ $57k – $104k per year (Estimated) • Remote (France) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
Java
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
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