We’re excited to share that we’ve raised a $12M Series A to continue building the fastest, most reliable way to move data in real-time.
The round was led by Dalton Caldwell at Standard Capital, with continued participation from Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and angel investors including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox founder & CTO), Benn Stancil (Mode founder & CTO), Chris Best (Substack founder & CEO), Charles Hearn (Alloy founder & CTO), and Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny’s Podcast).
Why We Started Artie
Real-time data used to be limited to a small set of use cases. Today, AI has pushed data into live systems that are making decisions, triggering workflows, and interacting with customers. Data freshness has become a foundational element of correctness.
- Customer support agents responding to a user needs to know their most recent actions
- Agents that trigger workflows like refunds, retries, and escalations need to know the latest transactions
- Compliance agents assisting humans during onboarding new accounts needs to know the latest account and behavior signals
Teams building on real-time data are shipping faster and successfully deploying AI into production. Teams that aren’t are stuck in pilots. The gap between streaming and batch is widening, and it’s showing up where it matters the most - product velocity, reliability, and cost.
But moving high volumes of data in real time is hard. My co-founder Robin experienced this firsthand at Opendoor, where he built streaming pipelines using Debezium, Kafka, custom merge logic, and schema inference. Streaming systems were powerful, but they left little room for error. Guaranteeing transactional integrity, recovering cleanly from failures, setting up the right monitoring and alerting, and doing all of this without impacting production systems proved difficult in practice. Even after a year of work, key pieces were still missing - particularly around observability and handling unexpected edge cases in production.
This pipeline created a permanent engineering tax, was expensive to maintain, and reliability depended on the few people in his team that understood how everything works.
Artie Helps Unlock Real-Time Data
Artie is a fully managed real-time data streaming platform. We move data across systems in real-time, so teams can rely on fresh, accurate data to power AI products.
Using Artie, companies can have the robust streaming pipelines that Netflix and DoorDash spent years building in-house, but without dedicating full-time engineers to build and maintain.
Fast growing companies like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy are using Artie to process over 700B rows of data annually. They’re building AI agents that help humans identify risky entities faster, power ML-driven recommendation engines, and deliver customer-facing analytics directly in their products.
The next generation of data infrastructure in the AI-era will be streaming-first.
What This Means for Your Team
For teams building products that depend on real-time data, you no longer have to staff a team to handle schema evolution across shards, enforce end-to-end transactional integrity, failure recovery, or reason about missing or out-of-order writes as systems scale.
The result is lower operational risk, fewer hidden dependencies on specialized knowledge, and a faster path from experimentation to production that’s measured in hours. Teams can focus on shipping AI-enabled features on top of data they trust, rather than maintaining the plumbing.
What’s Next
With this new round of funding, we’re investing in these areas:
Product. We’re expanding beyond transactional databases and analytical warehouses to support real-time data across event APIs, search systems like Elasticsearch, vector databases, and additional systems - so teams can rely on streaming as a shared foundation across their stack.
Go-to-market. We’re building out a self-serve experience so teams can try Artie quickly, while continuing to support larger organizations with BYOC deployments, 24/7 support, and security. Artie is SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant.
Team. We’re growing the team in San Francisco, in person, across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and business operations. Check out our careers page or email us directly at recruiting@artie.com.
And if you’re interested in exploring Artie for your company, check out our docs or reach out!
