Qbeast, a Barcelona, Spain-based knowledge optimization platform supplier, raised $7.6m in seed funding spherical.
The spherical was led by Peak XV’s Surge (previously Sequoia Capital India), with participation from HWK Tech Funding and Elaia Companions.
The corporate intends to make use of the brand new capital for staff enlargement, and product help throughout extra analytics use circumstances.
Born out of analysis on the Barcelona Supercomputing Heart, and led by newly appointed CEO Srikanth Satya, a cloud infrastructure veteran with a long time of expertise at AWS and Microsoft Azure, in addition to CTO Flavio Junqueira, a co-creator of Apache ZooKeeper and Apache BookKeeper, Qbeast offers a platform that plugs immediately into present Delta, Iceberg, and Hudi tables and accelerates workloads by prioritizing the information customers want. Its multi-dimensional indexing can deal with complicated filters throughout columns like time, area, or buyer phase – optimizing for each real-time and historic queries in a single desk. It allows simultaneous filtering throughout any mixture of information attributes. Qbeast integrates with widespread compute engines like Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, DuckDB, and Polars with out requiring groups to rewrite pipelines or undertake a brand new storage layer.
The corporate’s core know-how is rooted in analysis carried out by Cesare Cugnascom, CSO of Qbeast, and Paola Pardo throughout their time on the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, the place breakthrough work in multi-dimensional indexing laid the muse for right now’s platform.
FinSMEs
04/08/2025
