12 Best Vector Database Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Vector Database Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

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

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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PlanetScale

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

4

Funding Rounds

$108.0m

Money raised

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Weaviate

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

6

Funding Rounds

$135.8m

Money raised

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Zilliz

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

3

Funding Rounds

$113.0m

Money raised

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SingleStore

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

9

Funding Rounds

$434.1m

Money raised

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Pinecone

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$138.0m

Money raised

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Vespa.ai

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

2

Funding Rounds

$62.0m

Money raised

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Redis

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.

10

Funding Rounds

$356.8m

Money raised

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Chroma

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

2

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

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Marqo

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

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Qdrant

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Featureform

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

2

Funding Rounds

$7.6m

Money raised

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Kinetica

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

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised