Spiral
Spiral (SpiralDB) is a New York-based data infrastructure startup founded in 2023 by ex-Palantir engineers Will Manning, Rob Kruszewski and Nick Gates.
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Spiral (SpiralDB) is a New York-based data infrastructure startup founded in 2023 by ex-Palantir engineers Will Manning, Rob Kruszewski and Nick Gates. It created Vortex, an open columnar format now hosted by the Linux Foundation, and runs a multimodal database on top of it that lets AI and robotics teams query and curate massive training datasets directly from object storage at GPU-saturating speed.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Spiral
Spiral (SpiralDB) is a New York-based data infrastructure startup founded in 2023 by ex-Palantir engineers Will Manning, Rob Kruszewski and Nick Gates. It created Vortex, an open columnar format now hosted by the Linux Foundation, and runs a multimodal database on top of it that lets AI and robotics teams query and curate massive training datasets directly from object storage at GPU-saturating speed.
$22M
$22M
United States
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- ApertureData
ApertureDB, a database unifying graph, vector and native multimodal storage as the data and memory layer for AI, serving enterprise AI teams in RAG, computer vision, retail automation and biotech.
Seed · $8M · 2024-10
$8M - Luel
Multimodal AI training data marketplace that pays global contributors for audio, video and sensor data, then QCs and clears rights for model makers
Seed · $31M · 2026-05
$31M - LanceDB
Vector database for multimodal AI models that process text, images and video
Seed · $8M · 2024-05
$8M
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Fysics AI
In-house differentiable multiphysics simulation engine Fysics and full-stack physical AI foundation (simulation training platform, physical AI foundation models, physical world models) for embodied AI and robotics.
Series A1 · $14M · 2026-08
$14M - 无穹创新
Spatial intelligence infrastructure (spatial perception/localization and mapping/intelligent control); MetaCam handheld 3D scanners and robot perception modules
Series A · $58M · 2026-01
$58M - 大衍科技
Spatial intelligence and synthetic data provider for embodied AI, with in-house tactile data collection devices and a tactile foundation model, supplying synthetic training data for robotics and autonomous driving.
Angel · 2026-07
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Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Microagi
Atlas, a robotics data and deployment platform for industrial companies: cameras and sensor gloves capture real factory-floor worker data to fine-tune off-the-shelf frontier robot models, helping robots cross the last mile from demo to stable unattended operation on production lines. Hardware- and model-agnostic; does not build its own robots.
Seed · $55M · 2026-07
$55M - SurrealDB
Multi-model database platform offering a single database system for developers who work with diverse data models and queries
Series A · $43M · 2026-02
$43M - Kestra
Open-source platform that helps engineers schedule, monitor and optimize data processing jobs
Series A · $36M · 2026-03
$36M
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- lakeFS
Open-source data version control platform lakeFS (including enterprise edition), offering Git-like versioning for object-storage data lakes for data governance in data engineering, ML and AI agents.
$43M
$43M - Config
Training data infrastructure for robotics foundation models
Seed · $35M · 2026-05 · Valuation $200M
$35MValuation $200M - Ropedia
Robotics data collection
Pre-Series A · $22M · 2026-07
$22M
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