Incremental approach,
transformative results.
You shouldn't have to throw away the database to build with fast-changing data. Keep the familiar SQL, keep the proven architecture of cloud warehouses, but swap the decades-old batch computation model for an efficient incremental engine to get complex queries that are always up-to-date.
That is Materialize, the operational data warehouse built from the ground up to meet the needs of modern data products: Fresh, Correct, Scalable — all in a familiar SQL UI.
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.
Trusted in Production
Data and Engineering Teams at industry-leading companies run production workloads at scale in Materialize.
Try Materialize for Free
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Founded from Deep Technical Experience
Cofounders and Executive Leadership
Arjun Narayan
VP of Engineering
Arjun cofounded Materialize, coming from database-building experience as an early engineer at Cockroach Labs and through his Ph.D in distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability from the University of Pennsylvania.
Frank McSherry
Chief Scientist
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.
Nate Stewart
CEO
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.
Nikhil Benesch
CTO
Nikhil is the Chief Technology Officer at Materialize. He previously worked on the replication engine for CockroachDB. He has an A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard, where he did research on streaming dataflow systems.
Leadership Team
Charles Horner
Head of Finance
Charles joined Materialize in 2021 to build out finance and operations. He is now Head of Finance. 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.
Jessica Laughlin
Head of Product
Jessica joined Materialize as the fifth engineer, coming from Goldman Sachs and Bluecore. She leads the product organization, focused on shipping features that make Materialize users successful in production.
Ross Perez
VP of Marketing
Ross has spent his entire career working at fast paced data startups. Most recently, he spent five years at Snowflake, growing with the company from $19m in revenue to close to $1b. He began his time at Snowflake in product marketing, then moved on to head up the EMEA marketing team. Before Snowflake, Ross spend 8 years in product marketing at Tableau.
Scott Freifeld
VP of Business Operations
Scott was previously VP, Revenue Operations at Braze where he helped scale the business over 25x top line and through a successful IPO. Scott has a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business.
Tim Satterwhite
Chief Revenue Officer
Tim was previously the Chief Growth Officer at Terminus where he led the Sales, Marketing and Customers Success functions globally. Prior to that he was SVP of Revenue at Braze helping to scale the company across all segments of business.
Backed By The Best
Mature Technology, Long-Term Vision
Materialize builds on frameworks originally developed at Microsoft Research.
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.
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.
Company Founded
Materialize founded by Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry.
Series A
$8.5m Series A from Lightspeed, still in stealth
First Public Release
First public release of Materialize as a source-available single binary, built in Rust.
Series B
Materialize raises $32M Series B from Kleiner Perkins
Series C
Materialize Raises $60M Series C from Redpoint
Cloud Platform
Materialize unbundles the single binary into a cloud-native distributed system to unlock the next phase of scale.
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Built on Strong Principles
Build to last
We build based on a well-researched, long-term vision, and we take the time to build it well.
Be frank
Transparency is central to our culture. We extend transparency to our customers: we show them our code, and give them realistic expectations about what is possible.
Take ownership
We actively own the success of the projects we’re working on and the teams we’re working with.
Default to trust
We put ego aside and give teammates and customers a level of trust that empowers them to take action.
Write things down
We take the time to write things down so that others can understand what we've done and how.
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Brand Guidelines
You can find all the different Materialize logos alongside a guide on when to use what and so on our media kit page.