Yellowbrick

Yellowbrick

SQL data platform for enterprise analytics

Overview

Yellowbrick provides a SQL data platform for enterprise data warehousing, ad-hoc and streaming analytics, AI, and BI workloads. Built on Kubernetes, it runs with high speed and scalability while requiring minimal infrastructure. The platform can be deployed across public and private clouds, data centers, laptops, and edge environments to create a private data cloud where data remains under user control to meet residency and sovereignty requirements. The company serves large organizations needing robust data management and analytics, and uses a subscription model to generate revenue. Overall, Yellowbrick helps enterprises perform advanced analytics and maintain data sovereignty across diverse environments.

About Yellowbrick

Simplify's Rating
Why Yellowbrick is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$251.2M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • insightsoftware selected Yellowbrick to resolve data warehouse performance bottlenecks.
  • Ushur chose Yellowbrick for scalability in AI-powered customer analytics.
  • Revenue hit $39.3 million with 143 employees since 2014 founding.

What critics are saying

  • Snowflake Cortex AI erodes Yellowbrick's warehousing niche by June 2025.
  • Databricks Lakehouse captures AI/ML workloads within 6-12 months.
  • EU Data Act forces portability from Yellowbrick by September 2025.

What makes Yellowbrick unique

  • Kubernetes-native SQL platform deploys across clouds, data centers, and edge.
  • Hybrid row-column store enables real-time ingest and columnar queries.
  • PostgreSQL-compatible with extensions for Teradata, Oracle, Redshift integration.

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Funding

Total Funding

$251.2M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

5 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series C funding is usually for startups that are doing well and are looking for more money to fuel major growth, such as acquiring other companies, expanding into global markets, or launching new product lines. Investors typically include larger venture capital firms and private equity.
Series C Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$50M
$50M
Medium
$62M
SeatGeek
$75M
Yellowbrick
$100M
Oura

Benefits

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

1%
Cision
Aug 27th, 2025
Yellowbrick Wins Data Platform Tech: Data Warehouse and Lakehouse Category in SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards

Yellowbrick wins Data Platform Tech: Data Warehouse and Lakehouse category in SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards.

FinancialContent
Aug 6th, 2025
Yellowbrick Wins Best Data Warehouse Solution in 2025 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards

Yellowbrick Data, a SQL data platform for data warehousing and workload analytics, today announced it has been named Best Data Warehouse Solution in the 2025 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards.

Fintechnews.org
Apr 22nd, 2025
Yellowbrick Named to CRN's 2025 Big Data 100 in the Data Warehouse and Data Lake Systems Category

The announcement follows Yellowbrick being awarded "Data Warehouse Solution Provider of the Year" at the 6th annual Data Breakthrough Awards.

Business Wire
Apr 3rd, 2025
Yellowbrick Recognized as Data Warehouse Solution Provider of the Year in 6th Annual Data Breakthrough Awards Program

Yellowbrick recognized as Data Warehouse Solution Provider of the Year in 6th annual Data Breakthrough Awards program.

Business Wire
May 14th, 2024
Insightsoftware Accelerates Data Analytics Services With Yellowbrick

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yellowbrick Data, the Kubernetes-native data platform company, announced that insightsoftware, the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, has selected Yellowbrick for its Angles Enterprise for SAP financial management service. insightsoftware provides solutions across financial planning and analysis (FPA), accounting, and operations, it transforms how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity for more than 32,000 global customers. With a 5-year growth rate of 425 percent, insightsoftware has faced challenges from rapid expansion, including increased consumption costs, management complexity, and performance bottlenecks in its data warehouse. Recognizing the urgency, they swiftly prioritized addressing these challenges, taking immediate action to resolve them. Analytics accuracy depends on frequent data loads, but users experienced difficulties executing concurrent queries during this refresh process

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