Starburst

Vendor of commercial products built on the open-source Trino engine: Starburst Galaxy (managed cloud) and Starburst Enterprise (self-managed), per docs.starburst.io (re-checked 2026-10-07: Galaxy is the managed cloud service, Enterprise the self-managed/on-premises product; docs also mention built-in Starburst AI capabilities). Product detail in Trino and Starburst.

Facts (second pass, 2026-10-08)

• Founded 2017 by Justin Borgman (co-founder and CEO) and Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (co-founder); Borgman previously founded Hadapt (acquired by Teradata in 2014) (Starburst About page). Board members named on that page come from Index Ventures and Coatue. No acquisition or ownership change is mentioned there.
• Built on Trino (formerly Presto, originally developed at Facebook); sells Starburst Galaxy (managed) and Starburst Enterprise (self-managed) (Series D announcement).
• Funding: USD 250M Series D announced 2022-02-09 at a USD 3.35B valuation, led by Alkeon Capital with Altimeter and B Capital as new investors and Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Index Ventures and Salesforce Ventures as existing investors; the company said headcount would double from about 350 to about 700 (Starburst blog).
• Acquisition: Varada (Tel Aviv data-lake indexing/acceleration), announced 2022-06-23 (Starburst blog).
• Competitive context: Dremio, a Starburst competitor, was acquired by SAP (completed 2026-07-06; see dremio); Starburst published a marketing blog on this on 2026-08-07, which is a vendor view, not a source for the deal.

Sources

https://docs.starburst.io/introduction/index.html (fetched 2026-10-07)
Opened 2026-10-08: https://www.starburst.io/about/ ; https://www.starburst.io/blog/starburst-announces-250m-series-d/ ; https://www.starburst.io/blog/starburst-acquires-varada-to-deliver-faster-and-cheaper-data-lake-analytics/ ; https://www.starburst.io/about/newsroom/ (no 2026 funding, acquisition or CEO-change release listed there)

Open items

Headquarters, total funding after the 2022 Series D, current ARR/customer counts and any leadership change after 2022: not sourced (the newsroom page shows no such announcement, but it was read only in part). Series B/C amounts exist as blog posts in the sitemap but were not opened.