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Built on Mature Technology

Built on Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow, open source frameworks created by cofounder Frank McSherry at Microsoft Research.

$100 Million Raised

Funded by firms with a track record of success in databases.

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Data and Engineering Teams at industry-leading companies run production workloads at scale in Materialize.

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Nate

Nate Stewart

CEO, Materialize

Nate comes to Materialize after 7 years leading the product organization and 4 years serving on the board at Cockroach Labs. While at Cockroach, Nate had previously worked with Materialize co-founders Arjun Narayan and Nikhil Benesch. Previously, Nate was in product roles at Percolate and Microsoft. He has an MBA from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Frank

Frank McSherry

Chief Scientist, Materialize

Frank was previously at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley where he co-invented Differential Privacy, and subsequently led the Naiad project. Frank holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Paul

Paul Hemberger

VP Engineering, Materialize

Paul joined Materialize in 2022, first working as a software engineer on storage, then as manager of cloud infrastructure, and now as VP of Engineering. Previously, Paul worked on segmentation & data infrastructure at HubSpot. He holds an M.Eng. and S.B. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT.

Charles

Charles Horner

VP Finance and Operations, Materialize

Charles joined Materialize in 2021 to build out finance and operations. He is now VP Finance and Operations. Previously, he was an investor at RRE Ventures working with hundreds of start-ups at varying stages of development and an investment banker at Goldman Sachs working on transactions in the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors. Charles has a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Daniel

Daniel Bernardo

Head of Sales, Materialize

Daniel joined Materialize in 2025 as Head of Sales, bringing a proven track record of scaling go-to-market organizations at world-class technology companies. At Palantir, he built and led global teams partnering with some of the world’s largest enterprises to solve complex data challenges, and later helped drive growth at Robin AI, a leading legal AI startup transforming the way organizations manage contracts. Known for his entrepreneurial drive and ability to bridge cutting-edge innovation with real business outcomes, Daniel is passionate about building lasting partnerships and unlocking transformative impact for customers.

Emily

Emily Black

Director of Marketing, Materialize

Emily joined Materialize in 2024, she brings a proven track record in demand generation, campaign strategy, and marketing leadership, with experience driving impactful growth at companies like Starburst and through her creative leadership at Marblehead Little Theatre.

Seth

Seth Wiesman

Field CTO, Materialize

Seth Wiesman joined Materialize in 2021 and now serves as Field CTO, where he leads technical strategy and works closely with customers to address their most challenging operational data needs. As a long-time contributor and committer to Apache Flink, Seth brings over a decade of experience in data and streaming technologies, including work on some of the world's largest and most complex data projects.

Pranshu

Pranshu Maheshwari

Pranshu is the Head of Product at Materialize. He was most recently at Cloudflare, leading Cloudflare Pipelines & Queues. Previously, Pranshu led the core product and data platform for Second Measure (acquired by Bloomberg). He was also a YC backed founder. Pranshu holds a B.Sc in Statistics and a B.A in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Backed by the best to bring a breakthrough in incremental computation to the enterprise.

Kleiner PerkinsLightspeedRedpoint

Mature Technology, Long-Term Vision

Materialize builds on frameworks originally developed at Microsoft Research.

2013: Naiad: A Timely Dataflow System Paper published

Materialize cofounder Frank McSherry and his collaborators first share their work on Timely Dataflow, in a paper while working at Microsoft Research.

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2015: Timely Dataflow in Rust

Frank begins an open source project on timely dataflow written in Rust, the foundational building block on which Materialize is built.

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Jan 2019: Company Founded

Materialize founded by Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry.

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Feb 2019: Series A

$8.5m Series A from Lightspeed, still in stealth

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Feb 2020: First Public Release

First public release of Materialize as a source-available single binary, built in Rust.

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November 2020: Series B

Materialize raises $32M Series B from Kleiner Perkins

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Sep 2021: Series C

Materialize Raises $60M Series C from Redpoint

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Oct 2022: Cloud Platform

Materialize unbundles the single binary into a cloud-native distributed system to unlock the next phase of scale.

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