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ClickHouse Inc. was formed in August 2021 with a $50 million seed round, which may have been the largest pre-seed round in enterprise software history.
Following its seed round, ClickHouse Inc. raised a $250 million funding round co-led by Coatue and Altimeter.
Microsoft runs some of its largest analytical workloads, including Microsoft Titan and Microsoft Clarity, on ClickHouse.
Databricks is re-accelerating its growth rate from a revenue base of $4 billion.
Databricks' data warehousing product line has surpassed $1 billion in revenue.
Databricks' AI-related workloads now generate over $1 billion in revenue.
ClickHouse is developing a managed Postgres service that is currently in private preview.
ClickHouse predicts its managed Postgres service will enter public beta within a few months and become generally available by the end of the year.
ClickHouse Inc. plans to double its headcount from 500 to nearly 1,000 employees within 12 months.
A condition for forming ClickHouse Inc. was that it have no operational ties to Russia, requiring the core engineering team to relocate from Moscow to Amsterdam.
During the Silicon Valley Bank run, ClickHouse successfully wired out $100 million just 30 minutes before the bank's systems went down and froze transfers.
At the time of its $50 million seed round, ClickHouse Inc. had no product, no customers, and no revenue.