Imply

Real-time analytics at any scale.

Imply was founded in 2015, is headquartered in Burlingame, United States, lists 201–500 employees, and has $200.0M in recorded funding across 3 rounds.

Employees
201–500
Founded
2015
Business Model
B2B
Website
imply.io
Total Funding
$200.0M
Last Round
$100.0M Series DMay 2022
Rounds
3

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About

Imply is a real-time analytics company founded in 2015 by the original creators of Apache Druid, the open-source database that underpins its products. The company offers two primary platforms: Imply Polaris, a fully managed cloud-native Druid-as-a-service for building real-time analytics applications, and Imply Lumi, a high-performance observability warehouse designed to decouple observability and security data stacks from expensive legacy tooling. Imply's technology enables sub-second queries across streaming and batch data at massive scale, serving use cases including product analytics, operational intelligence, cybersecurity, IoT telemetry, and fraud detection. Customers include Netflix, Confluent, Cisco, and NTT. Imply is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Thoma Bravo, Tiger Global, and Khosla Ventures.

Summary

Imply is an Infrastructure company based in Burlingame, United States, founded in 2015. It lists 201–500 employees. It has raised $200.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $100.0M Series D round in May 2022. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital.

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Funding History

Series DSeries DMay 2022
$100.0M

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Funding: Series B through Series D. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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