Databento
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$147.9M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$97M
Series B · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
19
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +12% in a year
Hiring now
13
open roles
Backers
5
Blindspot Ventures, Good Growth Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
45/100
a new city, in the news, fresh money
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
Jul 8
Raised a round Series B $97M · led by NEA
Oct 30, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $10M · PRNewswire
Jan 10, 2023
Partnership Databento and Napatech collaborate on solutions for real-time financial data · PRNewswire
Oct 28, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $34.2M · SEC Form D
Mar 3, 2021
Raised a round Convertible Note $4.2M · SEC Form D
Jul 23, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $2.5M · SEC Form D
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
8
best: 38 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Jul 2026 | $97M | NEA lead | morningstar.com |
| Venture round | Oct 2024 | $10M | — | PRNewswire |
| Venture round | Oct 2021 | $34.2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Mar 2021 | $4.2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jul 2019 | $2.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Databento, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Christina QiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Blindspot Ventures 
Good Growth Capital 
NEA 
Redpoint Ventures 
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How Databento hires
Truth index
C 58/100
Ghost roles
69%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Databento scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 13 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 69% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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 · green card filings: 1
News
Christina Qi, Databento CEO: A Fortt Knox Conversation
Christina Qi, co-founder and CEO of Databento, speaks with Jon Fortt in a Fortt Knox 1:1 on rebuilding market data from the hardware up. Her own servers colocated inside exchanges, sold self-serve instead of through salespeople - now about 80,000 customer
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Databento Docs
Databento API reference documentation. Guides and example code for Python, Rust, C++, and our HTTP and Raw APIs.
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Market data platform startup Databento closes $97M round after drawing $300M in investor demand
Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally.Investor deman
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Databento Raises $97 Million Series B To Expand Global Market Data Infrastructure
Databento, a market data platform for financial institutions, announced it has raised $97 million in Series B funding in a round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from DRW Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Tribe Capital, and oth
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Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg's terminal
Market data startup Databento has raised $97M in a Series B led by NEA, taking its bet against the Bloomberg terminal to Europe, APAC, and AI labs.
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Tickblaze & Databento Forge Strategic Partnership to Supercharge Institutional-Grade Quant Platforms
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Detect Spoofing in Real-Time with Databento and RisingWave
Build a simplified real-time trade surveillance system. Detect spoofing patterns using Databento data feeds processed efficiently with RisingWave.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Databento over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
27
Postings analysed
12
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
C++58%
Python58%
Rust42%
C#25%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js8%
Redux8%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub25%
Grafana25%
Sentry25%
Figma17%
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27 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$130k – $250k
Open positions
10
4
Jobs
Middle
25%
Senior
75%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $185k | $185k |
| Senior | 3 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer (C++/C#)
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Databento
By role, level and city, against the market · 10 jobs with pay
People
Christina Qi
Executive Officer, Director
Luca Lin
Director
Geoffrey Bernstein
Director
David Lin
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
13
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% 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.
Backend
60% ▼
Frontend
20% ▼
Customer Success
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added VictoriaMetrics to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vector to stack
Oct 2026
Added Podman to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenTelemetry to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Oct 2026
Added K3s to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jaeger to stack
Oct 2026
Added Docker Swarm to stack
Oct 2026
Added Docker Compose to stack
Oct 2026
Added Configuration Management to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Salt Lake City
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake City
United States
HQ
Salt Lake City
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 200-500 est. staff $130k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success
Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA, 26 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA
Boston
United States
Regional office
Boston
Boston, MA 02110, USA, 1 Summer St, Boston, MA 02110, USA
Jobs
$130k – $215k per year • Remote (United States) • PhD • United States
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Redux
React.js
Vite
Storybook
npm
WebAssembly
DevOps
Rest API
WebSockets
CI/CD
Design
Figma
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$150k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United States
Rust
C++
CI/CD
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$150k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United States
Java
C#
C++
CI/CD
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United States
Java
C#
C++
CI/CD
Apply
$150k – $215k per year • Remote (United States) • PhD • United States
Python
Terraform
Ansible
Docker Compose
Jaeger
OpenTelemetry
Podman
Docker Swarm
K3s
Prometheus
VictoriaMetrics
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
eBPF
Vector
Linux
Apply
≈ $58k – $110k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp • PhD • United States
Python
SQL
Loki
Prometheus
Grafana
eBPF
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Tcpdump
Management
Slack
Discord
QA
Sentry
Apply
≈ HK$17k – HK$48k per month (Estimated) • Remote (APAC, APAC time zones hours) • 2+ years exp • PhD • Hong Kong
Python
SQL
Loki
Prometheus
Grafana
eBPF
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Tcpdump
Management
Slack
Discord
QA
Sentry
Apply
≈ $42k – $76k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EU, United Kingdom, European time zones hours) • 2+ years exp • PhD • London
Python
SQL
Loki
Prometheus
Grafana
eBPF
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
Tcpdump
Management
Slack
Discord
QA
Sentry
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$147.9M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
5