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Edelbyte launches with $70M to feed AI agents’ data appetite

The Microsoft veterans’ startup pitches an alternative to Snowflake and Databricks, with Sequoia and Quiet Capital backing.

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Edelbyte launched with $70 million across two funding rounds to tackle AI agents’ appetite for enterprise data. Its former Microsoft executive founders pitch an alternative to Snowflake and Databricks. Edelbyte claims under-100-millisecond latency on multipetabyte datasets. The available reporting offers no benchmark methods or independent test results to assess the speed claim.

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Edelbyte launched on November 11 with $70 million raised across two funding rounds for a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, according to SiliconANGLE. Its intended power user doesn’t take coffee breaks. Source

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Sequoia and Quiet Capital led the investments, with participation from Greenoaks and Swish Ventures. The SaaS News describes the financing as combined seed and Series A funding. Source Source

Former Microsoft executives Avner Aharoni, Evgeney Ryzhyk, Alexander Sloutsky and Yoni Leibowitz founded the Tel Aviv-based company in 2025. They helped develop Azure Data Explorer, Microsoft’s tool for analyzing real-time information streams. Edelbyte now positions its platform as an alternative to Snowflake and Databricks. Source

More questions, less data hauling

“The systems companies rely on to search and analyze their data were built for a world before AI,” CEO Avner Aharoni said, as quoted by SiliconANGLE. He expects AI to push the volume and complexity of queries beyond what legacy infrastructure was designed to handle. Source

According to SiliconANGLE’s product description, the platform holds conventional records and vectors—numerical representations that help find similar items—and supports search, business-intelligence calculations and graph processing to analyze relationships between data points. Source

It also uses query federation to run queries in systems where data already resides, rather than making users give all their data a change of address first. Edelbyte also says it automates some of the work of tailoring indexes, the shortcuts used to locate records, to an application’s access patterns. Database tuning hasn’t been abolished. Source

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Edelbyte claims its platform can query multipetabyte datasets with under 100 milliseconds of latency. SiliconANGLE’s report doesn’t provide benchmark methods, hardware details, workloads or independent test results. The latency claim alone doesn’t establish a speed or cost advantage over Snowflake or Databricks. Source

The company also says several Fortune 500 customers already use its platform for petabyte-scale data environments. The report doesn’t name those customers or include independent confirmation of their deployments. Edelbyte plans to use the funding to expand its customer base and hire more employees. Source

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@TechmemeTel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed (@tim_keary / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)1d

@SiliconANGLEEdelbyte reels in $70M for its multipurpose data analytics platform https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/11/edelbyte-reels-in-70m-for-its-multi-purpose-data-analytics-platform/1d

@tvykrutaEdelbyte just came out of stealth with $70M from @sequoia and @QuietCapital. They're calling it a seed. It's not. Four Microsoft veterans who built Azure Kusto. That's the engine under Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and Azure Data Explorer. They built it, then left to build the version for a world where AI agents run far more queries than any human ever would. That's the whole idea: Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse were built for people. This is built for agents. They say they're already running petabyte-scale production at several Fortune 500 companies, with 4 design partners live. Sequoia says customers are getting about 10x the queries on the same budget. No revenue disclosed. CTech is reporting a $25M Sequoia seed, then a $45M Series A from Quiet Capital, at about a $500M valuation. Unconfirmed. Either way, $70M and 20 years each at Microsoft is a Series A, not a seed. This is the second one this week. Dreeze, the brothers who sold Zerto to HPE, raised a $33M "seed" with 70 people and no traction disclosed. Same move: if you already won the category once, you can raise an A-sized round and still call it a seed. Read the label.19h

6 Sources

@TechmemeTel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed (@tim_keary / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)1d

@SiliconANGLEEdelbyte reels in $70M for its multipurpose data analytics platform https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/11/edelbyte-reels-in-70m-for-its-multi-purpose-data-analytics-platform/1d

@tvykrutaEdelbyte just came out of stealth with $70M from @sequoia and @QuietCapital. They're calling it a seed. It's not. Four Microsoft veterans who built Azure Kusto. That's the engine under Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and Azure Data Explorer. They built it, then left to build the version for a world where AI agents run far more queries than any human ever would. That's the whole idea: Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse were built for people. This is built for agents. They say they're already running petabyte-scale production at several Fortune 500 companies, with 4 design partners live. Sequoia says customers are getting about 10x the queries on the same budget. No revenue disclosed. CTech is reporting a $25M Sequoia seed, then a $45M Series A from Quiet Capital, at about a $500M valuation. Unconfirmed. Either way, $70M and 20 years each at Microsoft is a Series A, not a seed. This is the second one this week. Dreeze, the brothers who sold Zerto to HPE, raised a $33M "seed" with 70 people and no traction disclosed. Same move: if you already won the category once, you can raise an A-sized round and still call it a seed. Read the label.19h

6 Sources

@TechmemeTel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed (@tim_keary / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)1d

@SiliconANGLEEdelbyte reels in $70M for its multipurpose data analytics platform https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/11/edelbyte-reels-in-70m-for-its-multi-purpose-data-analytics-platform/1d

@tvykrutaEdelbyte just came out of stealth with $70M from @sequoia and @QuietCapital. They're calling it a seed. It's not. Four Microsoft veterans who built Azure Kusto. That's the engine under Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and Azure Data Explorer. They built it, then left to build the version for a world where AI agents run far more queries than any human ever would. That's the whole idea: Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse were built for people. This is built for agents. They say they're already running petabyte-scale production at several Fortune 500 companies, with 4 design partners live. Sequoia says customers are getting about 10x the queries on the same budget. No revenue disclosed. CTech is reporting a $25M Sequoia seed, then a $45M Series A from Quiet Capital, at about a $500M valuation. Unconfirmed. Either way, $70M and 20 years each at Microsoft is a Series A, not a seed. This is the second one this week. Dreeze, the brothers who sold Zerto to HPE, raised a $33M "seed" with 70 people and no traction disclosed. Same move: if you already won the category once, you can raise an A-sized round and still call it a seed. Read the label.19h

6 Sources

@TechmemeTel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform optimized for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across Series A and seed (@tim_keary / Forbes) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)1d

@SiliconANGLEEdelbyte reels in $70M for its multipurpose data analytics platform https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/11/edelbyte-reels-in-70m-for-its-multi-purpose-data-analytics-platform/1d

@tvykrutaEdelbyte just came out of stealth with $70M from @sequoia and @QuietCapital. They're calling it a seed. It's not. Four Microsoft veterans who built Azure Kusto. That's the engine under Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and Azure Data Explorer. They built it, then left to build the version for a world where AI agents run far more queries than any human ever would. That's the whole idea: Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse were built for people. This is built for agents. They say they're already running petabyte-scale production at several Fortune 500 companies, with 4 design partners live. Sequoia says customers are getting about 10x the queries on the same budget. No revenue disclosed. CTech is reporting a $25M Sequoia seed, then a $45M Series A from Quiet Capital, at about a $500M valuation. Unconfirmed. Either way, $70M and 20 years each at Microsoft is a Series A, not a seed. This is the second one this week. Dreeze, the brothers who sold Zerto to HPE, raised a $33M "seed" with 70 people and no traction disclosed. Same move: if you already won the category once, you can raise an A-sized round and still call it a seed. Read the label.19h