TigerData
tigerdata.com
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Stream Processing & Real-Time Data
Databases & DBMS
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$149.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$109.5M
Venture round · Feb 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Icon Ventures, NEA
The money's age
Long since its last round
55 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
33/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Feb 5
On the Hacker News front page It's 2026, Just Use Postgres · 532 points
Oct 29, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles · 105 points
Aug 21, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Making Postgres Self-Describing for LLMs with a Semantic Catalog
Jun 17, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Timescale Is Now TigerData · 170 points
Mar 23, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $40M · SEC Form D
2017
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2022 | $109.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Mar 2021 | $40M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | TIMESCALE, INC. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Michael FreedmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Ajay KulkarniExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Icon Ventures 
NEA 
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How TigerData hires
Truth index
A 94/100
Median time to fill
53 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
25%
Reposted roles
0%
TigerData scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 25% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 53 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
Overview
TigerData is a database company headquartered in New York City, founded in 2017 and known until 2025 as Timescale. The company develops TimescaleDB, a PostgreSQL extension for time-series, events, and real time analytics, and offers a managed cloud service built on it. It serves developers working on IoT telemetry, financial data, observability, and AI applications, and maintains the core project as open source alongside its commercial cloud.
News
Is It Safe to Give an AI Agent Access to Your Production Database? Tiger Data
Giving an AI agent unrestricted database access isn't safe. Scoped, read-only, database-enforced access can be. See the framework and guardrails.
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Report
How Float Runs an AI Energy Company on a 3-Person Team with Tiger Data Tiger Data
How Danish startup Float hit 99.3% compression on 1Hz smart meter data with Tiger Data, powering appliance-level energy analytics for hundreds of homes.
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Report
How Small Postgres Metadata Tables Quietly Throttle Your Largest Queries Tiger Data
Stale statistics on small Postgres metadata tables can silently throttle your largest queries. Learn to spot it with EXPLAIN and fix it-no schema migration.
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Report
Postgres Sorting at Scale Needs More Than ORDER BY Tiger Data
At scale, Postgres ORDER BY on time-series data spills to disk and slows queries. See how time_bucket and continuous aggregates cut a 4s query to 9ms.
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Report
Tiger Data: Data Model
A whitepaper detailing the architectural choices and optimizations for real-time analytics that power TimescaleDB and Tiger Cloud
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Report
pg_textsearch 1.0: How We Built a BM25 Search Engine on Postgres Pages Tiger Data
pg_textsearch 1.0 brings native BM25 search to Postgres. No Elasticsearch sidecar needed. Learn how it works and see benchmarks vs. ParadeDB at 138M documents.
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Report
Six Signs That Postgres Tuning Won't Fix Your Performance Problems Tiger Data
When Postgres tuning won't fix performance: recognize the six characteristics of time-series workloads that need TimescaleDB's purpose-built architecture.
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Report
It's 2026, Just Use Postgres Tiger Data
Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB.
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BM25 in PostgreSQL: Full-Text Search Without Elastic
BM25 is the standard ranking algorithm behind Elasticsearch and Lucene. Now it runs natively in Postgres with pg_textsearch. Here's how it works.
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The Big Shift in MCP
MCP servers need judgment, not just API access. AI Guides embed expert patterns into portable MCP tools, preventing bad engineering decisions at scale.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at TigerData over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
37
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python100%
Go43%
SQL17%
Rust13%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry4%
Databases
PostgreSQL100%
Cloud & platforms
AWS100%
Kubernetes100%
Azure17%
Linux13%
AI & ML
Claude4%
LLM4%
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Full TigerData tech stack
37 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$135k – $320k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Junior
33.3%
Senior
66.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $140k | $140k |
| Senior | 2 | $228k | $135k – $320k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive (Mountain/Western Timezones)
$320k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Michael Freedman
Executive Officer, Director
Ajay Kulkarni
Executive Officer, Director
Peter Fenton
Director
Satish Dharmaraj
Director
Forest Baskett
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
45/100
Stable
Open positions
15
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
59 days
faster than 24% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Marketing
25% ▲
Backend
17% ▼
Finance
17% ▼
Sales
17% ▲
Support
8% ▼
Customer Success
8% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Spain
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Sep 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack
Sep 2026
Added Outlook to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
New York
United States
HQ
200-500 est. staff
Jobs
≈ $57k – $148k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (EMEA, United States, Brazil) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
Python
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Wi-Fi
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≈ $135k – $235k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States, CT hours) • Full-Time • 1+ year exp
Python
Go
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Ansible
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Configuration Management
Linux
Wi-Fi
Apply
≈ $166k – $279k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
Python
SQL
C++
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Wi-Fi
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≈ $127k – $224k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
Go
Rust
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
Apply
≈ $116k – $214k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States, Brazil, Spain) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Python
Go
Rust
Bash
GolangCI-Lint
Databases
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
gRPC
Terraform
GCP
Helm
GitHub Actions
Jaeger
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Azure AKS
Linux
Wi-Fi
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Equity • Remote (APAC, Portugal, APAC time zones hours) • Full-Time
Python
Go
SQL
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Wi-Fi
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≈ $114k – $209k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
Wi-Fi
Apply