ClickHouse Raises $350 Million Series C to Power Analytics for the AI Era

National Post

29-05-2025

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SAN FRANCISCO — ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from new investors BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as existing investors including Index Ventures, Lightspeed, GIC, Benchmark, Coatue, FirstMark, and Nebius. Today's round follows earlier investments of over $300 million, bringing total funding to over $650 million.
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This combined funding will be used to scale product development, support global expansion, and deepen partnerships with customers and technology providers building the next wave of AI-native applications. In addition to this financing, ClickHouse has secured a $100 million credit facility led by Stifel and Goldman Sachs.
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The momentum behind ClickHouse is accelerating: the company grew over 300% during the past year and now serves over 2,000 customers across a range of industries from fintech and transportation to consumer and healthcare. New customers include Anthropic, Tesla, and Argentina's Mercado Libre, among others. They join companies such as Sony, Meta, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, as well as AI innovators Sierra, Poolside, Weights & Bases, Langchain, and more.
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Today's announcement was made at ClickHouse's inaugural user conference, showcasing how enterprises are building data products to meet the demands of the agentic era.
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'As AI agents proliferate across data-driven applications, observability, data infrastructure, and beyond, the demand for agent-facing databases like ClickHouse has reached an inflection point. The future of analytics isn't just dashboards. It's intelligent agents that interpret data, trigger workflows, and power real-time decisions,' said Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse. 'But AI is just one driver. We designed and built ClickHouse from day one to support a broad spectrum of real-time data applications across industries, and our momentum reflects that enterprises are hungry for a platform that can keep up with their scaling ambitions.'
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'We invested in ClickHouse because they're solving one of the most important infrastructure challenges of this era of AI and agents: enabling real-time data platforms that can support both traditional analytics and the growing demands of AI-native workloads,' said Ethan Choi, Partner at Khosla Ventures. 'As AI reshapes every industry, the ability to deliver fast, scalable, and cost-efficient analytics is becoming foundational, ClickHouse is poised to become the default engine for next-generation intelligent data products.'
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The market traction around ClickHouse is rooted in a fundamental shift: enterprises are no longer just building dashboards or batch reports—they are building real-time, intelligent data platforms that must serve both human and AI agents. Since AI agents can generate queries much faster and at a higher rate than human analysts, agent-facing databases must support low-latency, interactive analytical queries at an increasingly high throughput.
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ClickHouse was designed from the ground up to meet this demand. Its high-performance, columnar storage engine enables interactive, analytical queries across massive datasets with minimal latency—perfect for powering AI and ML applications, real-time analytics, cloud data warehousing, and observability workloads.
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Built for Speed at Scale: High-Performance Analytics Across Industries
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Traditional databases and warehouses are struggling to keep up with this demand. Transactional databases don't scale for analytical workloads. Meanwhile, traditional data warehouses are optimized for internal, batch-heavy use cases with limited concurrency and slow performance. Finally, search-oriented technologies become prohibitively expensive for structured analytics—using 10x more in storage and compute and limiting the practical range of applications due to cost.
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By contrast, ClickHouse offers a purpose-built solution that bridges the gap—combining high-performance analytics with the scalability and concurrency that today's intelligent, data-driven applications require.
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ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database management system built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. Engineered for high performance, ClickHouse Cloud delivers exceptional query speed and concurrency, making it ideal for applications that demand instant insight from massive volumes of data. As AI agents become increasingly embedded in software and are generating far more frequent and complex queries, ClickHouse brings a high-throughput, low-latency engine, purpose-built to meet this challenge. Trusted by leading companies like Sony, Tesla, Anthropic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, ClickHouse helps teams unlock insights and drive smarter decisions with a scalable, efficient, and modern data platform. For more information, visit clickhouse.com.
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