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Databand is an observability platform for data engineering teams. Data engineering teams are responsible for managing a wide suite of powerful tools, but lack the utilities they need to make sure their ops are running properly. Databand fills this gap with a solution that enables teams to gain a global view of their data flows, make sure pipelines complete successfully, and keep tabs on resource consumption and costs.
Founders: Victor (CPO), Evgeny (CTO), Joshua (CEO)
Signals:
Venture-backed experience
Evgeny worked at Crosswise, a device ad-tech company, which Oracle acquired
Joshua worked at Sisense, a BI & data management tool, which raised from Insight, Bessemer, DFJ Growth, Battery Ventures
Top company alumni
Victor was a researcher at SAP and NICE for over 7 years
Evgeny was an engineer at Intel for 7 years
Top university alumni
Joshua graduated from Cornell (BS)
Accelerated financing
Founded in 2018, seed in 2019, series A in 2020
Midas list investors
Accel led series A
Bessemer participated in series A
Till tomorrow, Kenn