Spice AI
Spice AI is a Seattle-based open-source company (founded June 2021) building a portable Rust-based data and AI inference engine with SQL federation, data acceleration, hybrid search and embedded LLM inference, letting apps and AI agents query databases, lakes and warehouses through one endpoint.
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Spice AI is a Seattle-based open-source company (founded June 2021) building a portable Rust-based data and AI inference engine with SQL federation, data acceleration, hybrid search and embedded LLM inference, letting apps and AI agents query databases, lakes and warehouses through one endpoint. Used in production by Twilio and Barracuda.
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Investor· 6
Founders / team· 2
Funding history
- 2021-10-14Pre-Seed$1M
Investors · Madrona Venture Group, Picus Capital, TA Ventures, Elysium Venture Capital, Cardinia Ventures, Founders’ Co-opSource · techcrunch.com ↗
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Spice AI
Spice AI is a Seattle-based open-source company (founded June 2021) building a portable Rust-based data and AI inference engine with SQL federation, data acceleration, hybrid search and embedded LLM inference, letting apps and AI agents query databases, lakes and warehouses through one endpoint. Used in production by Twilio and Barracuda.
Pre-Seed · $15M · 2021-10
$15M
United States
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Series B · $35M · 2024-06
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Series B · 2026-03
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$7M
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Seed · $10M · 2026-07
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$8M
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Y Combinator
23 Data deals in the last 24 months · 10 at a nearby stage · 23 in Seattle Metro
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10 Data deals in the last 24 months · 7 at a nearby stage · 8 in Seattle Metro
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