Feldera sells an Incremental View Maintenance engine for processing data, primarily targeting engineering teams and enterprises needing real-time data insights.
Developing: it holds up against its sources so far, and firms up as more reporting lands.
read against 3 sources
Source 1 reports $21.5M as the Series A, while FinSMEs and Axios report $15.4M. The $15.4M figure is used because FinSMEs identifies $21.5 as the total after the prior $6.1M Seed round.; not on the page it cites, so not applied: financing total
Held: Apollo reports Series A $15.4M dated 2026-07, more than 45 days before this row's 2026-09-21 (a url date, not one the company stated); likely a late re-report of that round, so it is not delivered until a person checks it
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Developing: it holds up against its sources so far, and firms up as more reporting lands.
read against 3 sources
Source 1 reports $21.5M as the Series A, while FinSMEs and Axios report $15.4M. The $15.4M figure is used because FinSMEs identifies $21.5 as the total after the prior $6.1M Seed round.; not on the page it cites, so not applied: financing total
Held: Apollo reports Series A $15.4M dated 2026-07, more than 45 days before this row's 2026-09-21 (a url date, not one the company stated); likely a late re-report of that round, so it is not delivered until a person checks it
Company research
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Feldera builds an Incremental View Maintenance engine that helps engineering teams and enterprises keep SQL views over lakehouse data current without recomputing everything.
Founders
Lalith Suresh · CEO / Co-Founder
Before co-founding Feldera, he was a senior researcher at VMware, where he led efforts to reimagine cluster management using database-inspired techniques and formal methods, and he holds a PhD from TU Berlin.
Leonid Ryzhyk · CTO / Co-Founder
Before Feldera, he worked at VMware, Samsung Research, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Toronto, and NICTA, and he holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales.
Mihai Budiu · Chief Scientist / Co-Founder
He previously worked at VMware, Barefoot Networks, and Microsoft, and he holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ben Pfaff · Chief Engineer / Co-Founder
Before Feldera, he worked at Nicira Networks as a founding engineer and then at VMware, and he holds a PhD from Stanford University.
Gerd Zellweger · Head of Engineering / Co-Founder
Before Feldera, he led scalable multi-core OS design efforts at VMware and ETH Zurich, and he holds a PhD from ETH Zurich.
Business model
Feldera offers a free MIT-licensed open-source edition and sells a self-hosted Enterprise edition at custom pricing, with dedicated support and expert consulting for production use.
Feldera targets the cost-and-freshness tradeoff created when conventional analytics systems repeatedly recompute entire datasets even when only a small amount of data changes. Its DBSP-backed engine is already used for workloads such as authorization, fraud detection, logistics, and real-time analytics, while the $21.5 million raised is intended to fund engine scalability, deeper lakehouse integrations, and a fully managed experience.