12 Best Vector Database Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Vector Database Startups

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There are 12 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $115.8m.

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$108.0m

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PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service platform acting as a middleware system for MySQL.

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$135.8m

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Weaviate is a cloud-native vector database and search engine.

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$113.0m

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Zilliz is a vector database company providing products for enterprise-grade AI.

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$434.1m

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SingleStore is a San Francisco-based database software and analytics company offering a platform to help companies operationalize their data.

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$138.0m

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Pinecone is a company developing a fully managed, cloud-native vector database, simplifying adding vector search to production applications and providing long-term memory for AI applications.

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$62.0m

Money raised

Vespa.ai is a company developing a platform for low-latency computations over large, evolving data sets.

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$356.8m

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Redis is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an open-source, in-memory database platform, the open-source Redis, and provides enterprise software as a cloud service built upon the product.

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$20.3m

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Chroma is a company developing an open-source embedding database (or vector database) for developing LLM apps.

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$5.2m

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Marqo is an open-source, multimodal vector search engine that allows users to store and query unstructured data (text, images, code, etc.) with a single API.

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$2.3m

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Qdrant is an open source vector database paltfor for developers founded in 2021.

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$7.6m

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Featureform is an AI tools for physician company founded in 2019 by Chris Volzer.

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$6.0m

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Kinetica is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016.

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