Sqream
Founded 2010 · 40 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
SQream builds a GPU-native SQL database platform designed to accelerate data analytics, machine learning training, and inference for enterprises processing large-scale datasets. The platform serves financial services, telecom, pharma, and manufacturing companies seeking to transform raw data into intelligence at scale.
Also known as SQream DB · SQream Technologies
Founders & leadership
Sqream was founded in 2010 by Razi.
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026SQream develops a GPU-accelerated data and analytics platform aimed at organizations that need to process very large datasets for analytics and AI workloads. The platform, marketed around the concept of an "AI factory" and an engine called SCAILIUM, covers three stages: ingesting, cleaning and transforming petabyte-scale data for training pipelines; training and fine-tuning models directly inside the database on complete datasets rather than samples; and running high-volume inference with near real-time response.
The software is built natively for NVIDIA GPUs and is offered for both cloud and on-premises deployment. SQream positions the product as an addition to an existing data stack rather than a replacement, stating that it integrates with a customer's ecosystem without requiring a forklift upgrade of infrastructure. Marketed benefits include faster large-scale reporting, higher data capacity and lower compute costs.
Business model
SQream sells its GPU-accelerated data platform to enterprises for deployment in the cloud or on-premises, alongside a cloud-based offering referred to as SQream Blue.
Latest developments
SQream appointed technology veteran Liam Galin as CEO to expand enterprise-scale mass-data offerings, and repositioned its messaging around powering AI factories with the SCAILIUM engine. The company also participated in NVIDIA GTC 2025 activity and published a benchmark reporting that SQream Blue outperformed Snowflake on a 30-terabyte workload.
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Market position
SQream competes with large-scale analytical data warehouse and data platform vendors, publishing comparative benchmarks against Snowflake, and describes itself as one of NVIDIA's longest-serving collaborators.
Use of GPU acceleration to process full datasets without sampling, in-database model training, and claims of substantially lower analytics infrastructure cost and higher throughput than CPU-based alternatives.
Technology
A data and analytics engine built natively for NVIDIA GPUs, supporting petabyte-scale ingestion and transformation, in-database model training and fine-tuning, and high-throughput inference. The company markets this engine as SCAILIUM and cites benchmark work including a 30-terabyte comparison against Snowflake and TPC-DS scalability testing.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests, a partner network, published benchmarks and technical content, and presence at industry events such as NVIDIA GTC.
Enterprises with large-scale data and AI workloads in financial services, retail and e-commerce, telecommunications, manufacturing, advertising and media, and healthcare.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Sqream went on to found or lead other companies.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsSQream announced the appointment of technology executive Liam Galin as its new CEO, tasked with building out solutions for enterprise-scale mass-data utilization.
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In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Sqream do?
- SQream runs GPU-accelerated data preparation, in-database model training and large-scale inference on petabyte datasets.
- Who founded Sqream?
- Sqream was founded by Razi in 2010.
- Who are Sqream's investors?
- Sqream's investors include Atento Capital, Blumberg Capital, Hanaco Venture Capital, World Trade Ventures (WTV), Alibaba Group.