Spanish information infrastructure startup Qbeast has raised €6.5 million in Seed funding to speed up the way forward for open Lakehouse analytics whereas increasing the crew and furthering product improvement.
The spherical was led by Peak XV’s Surge programme (previously Sequoia Capital India), with participation from HWK Tech Funding and Elaia Companions. The capital injection will help Qbeast’s broader mission to simplify and optimise massive information analytics throughout trendy information stacks.
“Knowledge groups shouldn’t have to decide on between pace, price, and openness,” stated Srikanth Satya, CEO of Qbeast. “We constructed Qbeast to make high-performance analytics easy and accessible, with out locking organisations into proprietary techniques. In a world the place information is rising sooner than ever, we’re right here to make sure each firm can flip that information into worth on their very own phrases.”
Based in 2020 out of analysis performed on the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Qbeast provides a plug-and-play information indexing platform that enhances efficiency on open Lakehouse codecs resembling Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Hudi.
The corporate’s origins hint again to educational work by Cesare Cugnasco, Qbeast’s CSO, and Paola Pardo, who collectively researched multi-dimensional indexing on the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. This educational basis kinds the bedrock of Qbeast’s drop-in indexing layer – one which allegedly avoids the constraints of one-dimensional partitioning and as a substitute helps compound filtering throughout a number of attributes.
On the core of its innovation is multi-dimensional indexing – a way that prioritises related information entry based mostly on columnar attributes like time, location, or buyer phase, eliminating the necessity to scan whole datasets for complicated queries. This strategy provides sub-second efficiency with out sacrificing the openness or flexibility that information groups demand.
The platform integrates with present information infrastructure and compute engines together with Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, DuckDB, and Polars, permitting engineering groups to speed up workloads with out modifying pipelines or shifting storage layers. In manufacturing, Qbeast claims its indexing know-how has delivered question speedups of two–6x and compute price reductions of as much as 70% throughout verticals like finance, healthcare, and retail.
The funding may also gasoline worldwide growth underneath the management of newly appointed CEO Srikanth Satya, a cloud infrastructure knowledgeable with expertise from AWS and Microsoft Azure.
“There’s an undesirable compute price hidden within the information structure that has been extremely uncared for by the marketplace for information lakehouses,” shared Flavio Junqueira, CTO of Qbeast and Co-creator of Apache ZooKeeper and Apache BookKeeper. “Our know-how allows prospects throughout verticals to cut back and even get rid of such prices in a way that embraces the openness of the info lakehouse stack and that’s each engine and format impartial.“
The enchantment of Qbeast’s providing lies in its steadiness of open requirements and high-performance analytics. It goals to turn out to be the go-to indexing layer for organisations constructing scalable AI and analytics pipelines with out rising compute waste.
“We imagine Qbeast is fixing a elementary problem within the trendy information stack. In a context of information quantity explosion, their multi-dimensional indexing layer has the potential to turn out to be vital for each firm transferring to a lakehouse mannequin,” added Juan Santamaría, CEO and Managing Accomplice at HWK TechInvestment.
With plans to introduce options like auto-tuning, adaptive indexing, and broader compatibility with cloud engines, Qbeast is positioning itself because the efficiency spine of the open information stack.
“By empowering enterprises to unlock extra worth from their information with much less complexity and expense, Qbeast goals to turn out to be the cornerstone indexing layer for contemporary information stacks,” stated Sébastien Lefebvre, Accomplice & DeepTech Investor at Elaia.
