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Funding and backers

Total raised
$21.1M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$17M
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
10
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Backers
1
Hawkhill
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
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this month
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 25 Raised a round Venture round $17M · Pulse 2.0 Oct 9, 2025 Launched TextQL Launches Healthcare Vertical with Marquee Client and Executive Advisory Board · PRNewswire Mar 11, 2025 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: An open source SOTA SQL Agent in 1k lines of code Jan 25, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $4.1M · PRNewswire 2023 Founded
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Web presence
top 2%
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10 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2026 $17M — Pulse 2.0
Venture round Jan 2024 $4.1M — PRNewswire
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Overview

TextQL builds Dakota, an artificial intelligence data analyst that plans and executes multi-step analysis across enterprise warehouses. Founded in 2023 in New York, it works through existing semantic layers and catalogues rather than querying raw tables blindly. Its target users are business teams waiting in a data request queue.

News

News Pulse 2.0 6 months ago
TextQL: $17 Million Raised To Bring Intelligence To Enterprise Data
TextQL has raised $17 million in a strategic funding round anchored by Blackstone Innovations Investments, as the company looks to redefine how enterprises extract value from their data in the age of AI.
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Press release PRNewswire 1 year ago
TextQL Launches Healthcare Vertical with Marquee Client and Executive Advisory Board
/PRNewswire/ -- TextQL today launched TextQL Healthcare, a game-changing vertical that brings the company
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News NotionHQ 1 year ago
Notion Where teams and agents work together
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team
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News TextQL 1 year ago
Open-Sourcing State of the Art Text-to-SQL
TextQL open-sources Ana Small, a barebones text-to-SQL tool that outperforms every major competitor on complex benchmarks -- and it is free to use.
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News textql.com 2 years ago
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Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
TextQL raises $4.1M in funding to use AI to automate the data science lifecycle
/PRNewswire/ -- TextQL, a startup building an AI data analyst that connects to your business intelligence (BI) tools, semantic layers, and existing...
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
TextQL aims to add AI-powered intelligence on top of business data
Mark Hay and Ethan Ding want to make every corporate decision a data-driven one. Hay and Ding are the co-founders of TextQL, a platform that connects a company
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News TextQL Blog 3 years ago
Copilot + Static Typing =
I've been using Github Copilot for a while to write Haskell (and Typescript) for the TextQL backend MVP, as well as mkprompt. To my surprise, it's been a good experience, despite Haskell not being one of Copilot's officially supported languages. Just look
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
New York United States
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$21.1M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $17M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $4.1M Details