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Funding and backers
Total raised
$52.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$52.5M
Venture round · Sep 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
66
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +61% in a year
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
7
Andreessen Horowitz, Amplifypartners
The money's age
Long since its last round
36 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
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
Aug 25
Acquisition MotherDuck acquires Tower.dev · motherduck
2025
Team of 66 was 41 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Apr 24, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI · 378 points
Aug 17, 2024
On the Hacker News front page pg_duckdb: Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA · 186 points
May 27, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Big data is dead (2023) · 585 points
Mar 10, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Perf Is Not Enough · 262 points
Sep 20, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $52.5M · YahooFinance
Jun 22, 2023
Launched MotherDuck launches new cloud analytics platform built on DuckDB · SiliconANGLE
Feb 7, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Big data is dead · 879 points
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.39%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
97
best: 879 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2023 | $52.5M | — | YahooFinance |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Andreessen Horowitz 
Amplifypartners 
Felicis 
Madrona 
Redpoint Ventures 
Scribble Ventures 
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News
prompt_jev(): Text Classification in SQL, 50x Faster at 1% the Cost
Classify text in SQL with prompt_jev(), powered by TypeSafe's Jev. 100,000 rows labeled in 40 seconds for $0.50 at frontier-LLM accuracy. Live on paid plans.
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Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup.
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Context, Semantics, and Ontology: A Primer for the Agentic Era
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Agentic SQL for Free with Qwen3.8 27B and DuckDB
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DuckDB outgrows its nest
Today Duck Labs, the developers of DuckDB, announced they are being acquired by Amazon. This is big news in the duck-iverse, and many people are wondering what this will mean for everyone's favorite duck-powered database, MotherDuck.
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MotherDuck acquires Tower.dev
MotherDuck Blog - MotherDuck Acquires Tower: Agents Can Answer. Now They Can Build.
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OpenAI Just Made Analytics 10x Cheaper
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Figma for Agents: How Airflow's Creator Coordinates AI ft. Maxime Beauchemin
Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Airflow and Superset, shares how he uses AI agents for data engineering: orchestrating agents on a shared canvas with Agor, context layers and semantics, Okta for Agents security, and automating CEO work with AI assistants.
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Introducing Flights: Agent-Native Ingest in MotherDuck
Build, deploy, and schedule Python data pipelines from a prompt, a SQL function, or the MotherDuck UI.
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Exclusive: MotherDuck adds agentic data ingestion to its cloud analytics service
Exclusive: MotherDuck adds agentic data ingestion to its cloud analytics service - SiliconANGLE
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Motherduck over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
94/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Java
Rust
SQL
Databases
DuckDB
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
LLM
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Full Motherduck tech stack
17 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
27 days
faster than 45% 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
50% ▼
Backend
25% ▼
Product
13% ▼
Marketing
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
Removed Rest API from stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Berlin
Aug 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Aug 2026
New location: Seattle
Aug 2026
New location: Amsterdam
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
3
Busiest office
Seattle
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Seattle
United States
HQ
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
2811 Fairview Ave E, Suite 2000, Seattle, WA, 98102, US
New York
United States
Sales office
2 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales
San Francisco
United States
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $179k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Amsterdam
Netherlands
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $179k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Jobs
$120k – $180k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Amsterdam • Berlin
Java
Rust
C++
DuckDB
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Financials
Total raised
$52.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $52.5M | $400M | Details |