MotherDuck is a technology company.
MotherDuck has raised $101.0M across 3 funding rounds.
MotherDuck has raised $101.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
MotherDuck has raised $101.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
MotherDuck's investors include Adjacent, Alt Capital, Amplify Partners, Array Ventures, Background Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Bond, BoxGroup, Compound, Felicis Ventures, Insight Partners, Madrona Ventures.
MotherDuck is a portfolio company building a serverless data warehouse platform based on the open-source DuckDB database, enabling simple, scalable analytics for small and large datasets.[1][2][3] It serves data teams, developers, and enterprises needing fast, low-latency querying without infrastructure management, solving problems like resource competition, high latency, and poor cost visibility in traditional data warehouses by providing per-user tenancy and cloud-scale performance.[3][5] With $100M in total funding—including a $52.5M Series B in 2024—the company has shown strong growth momentum, reaching general availability in June 2024 with over 50 ecosystem partners and recognition on the Enterprise Tech 30 list.[1][4]
MotherDuck was founded in 2022 in Seattle, Washington, by Jordan Tigani (co-founder and chief duck-herder), who previously helped transform Google's Dremel query engine into the serverless BigQuery.[2] The idea emerged when Tigani encountered DuckDB and envisioned a serverless cloud version; he partnered with DuckDB Labs founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt, who shifted focus to commercialize the core technology.[2] Early team hires included Tino Tereshko (another BigQuery veteran) and engineers from 11 companies, culminating in their first in-person meeting in Seattle in June 2022 to develop "EasyQuery," emphasizing effortless data querying.[2] This collaboration quickly gained traction, leading to rapid funding and product launches.[1][4]
MotherDuck rides the trend toward open-source, serverless analytics amid exploding data volumes and AI-driven workloads, where DuckDB's efficiency addresses limitations of legacy warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery in cost and speed for modern stacks.[2][3][4] Timing is ideal post-2022 DuckDB hype, with enterprises seeking lightweight alternatives to multi-tenant systems amid cloud cost pressures and the rise of embedded analytics.[5] Market forces like PLG adoption and the "Modern Duck Stack" favor it, as it democratizes high-performance querying for startups and scale-ups, influencing the ecosystem by accelerating DuckDB enterprise adoption and inspiring monetization of open-source cores.[4]
MotherDuck is poised to disrupt data warehousing with its DuckDB-native model, expanding into AI/ML integrations and larger enterprise deals via read scaling and ecosystem growth.[3][4][5] Trends like real-time customer analytics and cost-optimized cloud will propel it, potentially challenging incumbents as usage scales. Its influence may evolve from niche innovator to stack leader, building on $100M funding to deliver the "ducking simple" analytics revolution that started as a side-project spark.[1][2]
MotherDuck has raised $101.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $53.0M Series B in September 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2023 | $53.0M Series B | Adjacent, Alt Capital, Amplify Partners, Array Ventures, Background Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Bond, BoxGroup, Compound, Felicis Ventures, Insight Partners, Madrona Ventures, Adam Gries, Amjad Masad, Brandon Leonardo, Howie Liu, Lukas Biewald, Max Mullen, Moshe Lifschitz | |
| Nov 1, 2022 | $13.0M Seed | Accel, Alt Capital, Amplify Partners, Background Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, BITKRAFT Ventures, BoxGroup, Erik Nordlander, Insight Partners, IVP, Madrona Ventures, Oren Yunger, Summit Partners, SYN Ventures, Theory Ventures, Brandon Leonardo, Max Mullen | |
| Nov 1, 2022 | $35.0M Series A | Bessemer Venture Partners, Erik Nordlander, Summit Partners, SYN Ventures |