PeerDB
acquired by ClickHouseYC S23Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 7 known investors
PeerDB provides fast and cost-effective data replication from PostgreSQL to data warehouses including Snowflake, BigQuery, and ClickHouse, as well as to event queues like Kafka and EventHubs. The open-source tool and commercial cloud service enable change data capture and parallel data migration for engineering and data teams.
Also known as PeerDB Inc
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S23)
PeerDB was founded in 2023 by Sai Srirampur and Kaushik Iska.
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Sai Srirampurin𝕏CEO and Co-founderSai Srirampur previously led solutions engineering for PostgreSQL on Azure at Microsoft and was an early engineer at Citus Data (acquired by Microsoft). He holds a degree from IIIT Hyderabad and is now building data-movement infrastructure for Postgres.
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Kaushik IskainCTO and Co-founderKaushik Iska has held engineering leadership positions at Google, Palantir, and Safegraph. He is currently building PeerDB, a platform focused on Postgres data integration.
Investors · 7
Wayfinder VenturesSan Francisco · $300K – $1M
Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K
8VCreportedAustin · $100K – $50M
Orange Collectivereported · 2 sourcesDanville
Rogue CapitalreportedSan Francisco
Webb Investment NetworkreportedSan Francisco · $500K – $750K
Also in the syndicate · 1
Flex Capital
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$3.6M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2024
- $3.6Mseed roundApr 2024 · 3 sources
8VC (lead), Flex Capital, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Rogue Capital, Wayfinder Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
The YC application· Summer 2023 batch
Alumni Q&A
- What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
- The founders observed that general-purpose ETL tools support many data stores but perform poorly for any specific pair, often failing to meet performance, reliability, or feature requirements at scale. As a result, users build their own in-house solutions at significant cost, a pattern the founders saw across customers during their time at Microsoft and Google.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
Competitors · 9
by search overlap
Hevodata20 shared keywordsHevo is a no-code data pipeline platform that combines extraction, loading, and dbt-based modeling with operational visibility across data sources. It lets teams sync databases and SaaS applications into data warehouses in near real-time, with automated schema handling, monitoring, and API/CI-CD-based pipeline management.
Estuary19 shared keywordsEstuary provides a real-time data platform that helps companies harness and stream their data. The platform serves engineering, product, and customer-facing teams building data-driven applications.
ParadeDB18 shared keywordsParadeDB is a Postgres extension that adds full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregation capabilities to PostgreSQL databases. It enables developers to consolidate search and analytics workloads into a single database using standard SQL without requiring a separate search engine.
Supabase17 shared keywordsSupabase is a fully managed PostgreSQL backend platform that integrates with AI builders like Claude, Lovable, and Bolt to enable rapid development of production applications. It provides authentication, real-time database sync, storage, serverless functions, and vector support for AI/ML applications.
DuckDB13 shared keywordsDuckDB is an open-source SQL database engine that executes queries directly on files and cloud data sources like Parquet, JSON, and S3. It provides a columnar storage engine optimized for analytics workloads and is available across operating systems with client APIs for major programming languages.
Airbyte13 shared keywordsAirbyte provides a context layer for agents and pipelines, enabling data connectivity and integration solutions. The platform serves organizations that need to connect and manage data across their systems.
Cdata13 shared keywordsCData provides a centralized data connectivity layer that unifies hundreds of SaaS apps, databases, and on-prem systems behind one relational interface, giving AI agents governed, authenticated, and audited access to live business data via MCP. Its products include a managed MCP platform, change-data-capture replication into warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks, embeddable white-labeled connectivity, a CLI, and a Python SDK for enterprise teams building and scaling production AI.
Neon13 shared keywordsNeon offers a serverless Postgres database platform with features like advanced autoscaling, instant git-like branching, built-in authentication, and point-in-time recovery, aimed at developers and AI engineering workloads. Founded by Postgres committers, it provides managed Postgres with compliance features (HIPAA, SOC2) and integrations for building and scaling applications.
Netezza12 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does PeerDB do?
- PeerDB provides fast and cost-effective data replication from PostgreSQL to data warehouses including Snowflake, BigQuery, and ClickHouse, as well as to event queues like Kafka and EventHubs. The open-source tool and commercial cloud service enable change data capture and parallel data migration for engineering and data teams.
- Who founded PeerDB?
- PeerDB was founded by Sai Srirampur, Kaushik Iska in 2023.
- Who are PeerDB's investors?
- PeerDB's investors include Wayfinder Ventures, Y Combinator, 8VC, Orange Collective, Rogue Capital, Webb Investment Network.
- How much funding has PeerDB raised?
- PeerDB has disclosed $3.6M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Who acquired PeerDB?
- PeerDB was acquired by ClickHouse.