Honeydew
YC W23Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL · Founded 2022 · 6 employees · 6 known investors
Honeydew provides a semantic layer for enterprise data warehouses that unifies business logic and context across AI agents and business intelligence tools. The platform enables consistent data governance and querying for organizations using multiple BI and AI interfaces.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W23)
Honeydew was founded in 2022 by David Krakov, Baruch Oxman, and Liron Slonimsky-Shemy.
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David Krakovin𝕏Co-founder & CEODavid Krakov founded Varada, a data acceleration platform acquired by Starburst, and was an early employee at XtremIO, which was later acquired by EMC and became a leader in all-flash storage. He has over two decades of experience in data and software systems.
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Baruch OxmaninCo-Founder & CTOBaruch Oxman spent over 20 years in software engineering and product development, with early experience at Implicit working on AI for sales; after Salesforce acquired the company, he led architecture and engineering for Einstein for Sales.
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Liron Slonimsky-ShemyinCo-Founder & GrowthLiron Slonimsky-Shemy previously worked as a screenwriter before founding Awear, a fashion analytics startup that tracked how people wear their garments and sold that data to apparel companies. She is now based in Tel Aviv and leads Honeydew.
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Omni9 shared keywordsOmni is a business intelligence and analytics platform that combines dashboards, spreadsheet-style modeling, SQL, and an AI chat interface on top of a governed semantic layer. It serves data teams and business users, and can be embedded into other products via SSO, APIs, and an MCP server.
ThoughtSpot8 shared keywordsThoughtSpot builds data analytics and business intelligence software to make data accessible to organizations across industries.
AtScale8 shared keywordsAtScale provides a semantic data platform that helps enterprises establish a unified, trusted source of truth for analytics and AI across cloud platforms and BI tools. The platform enables consistent data governance and definitions for both business intelligence and machine learning workloads.
dbt Labs8 shared keywordsdbt Labs provides a data transformation platform used by teams to organize, catalog, and manage data in their warehouses. The company serves data practitioners and organizations across industries seeking to build reliable data pipelines from development to production.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Honeydew do?
- Honeydew provides a semantic layer for enterprise data warehouses that unifies business logic and context across AI agents and business intelligence tools. The platform enables consistent data governance and querying for organizations using multiple BI and AI interfaces.
- Who founded Honeydew?
- Honeydew was founded by David Krakov, Baruch Oxman, Liron Slonimsky-Shemy in 2022.
- Who are Honeydew's investors?
- Honeydew's investors include ATOORO FUND, Honeystone Ventures, Tal Ventures, Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Snowflake Ventures.
- Where is Honeydew headquartered?
- Honeydew is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL.