Where is Actian located?

Actian is headquartered in Redwood City, United States. It is registered at Palo Alto, California.

How many employees does Actian have?

As of Sep 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Actian is 159.

How much is Actian worth?

The last known valuation of Actian was $***** as of Apr 12, 2018.

Where does Actian rank among its competitors?

Actian ranks 28th amongst 1275 active competitors, of which 138 are funded. It stands 11th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Julius AI, which secured $10M in Jul, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Actian?

Actian's top competitors include Collibra, Atlan and Nexla. Among them, Julius AI secured the most recent funding round in July, 2025.

Actian - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Actian is an acquired company based in Redwood City (United States), founded in 2005 by Shiv Nadar. It operates as a Hybrid data management platform. , with last known valuation of $*****. The company has 1275 active competitors, including 138 funded and 92 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Collibra, Atlan and Nexla.

Company Details

Actian provides a hybrid data management platform. It offers high-performance data enrichment, visual design, and SQL analytics on Hadoop without the need for MapReduce skills. The platform enhances and extends Hadoop for both discovery and time-sensitive analytics. The company also has an enterprise-grade DBMS called Ingres which is relational and used for operational purposes and Matrix, an analytical MPP database among other products.

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Registered Address: Palo Alto, California

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2005

Location

Redwood City, United States

Stage

Acquired

Last Known Valuation

$***** as on Apr 12, 2018

Investors

TriplePoint Capital & 1 more

Ranked

28^th among 1275 active competitors

Employee Count

159 as on Sep 30, 2026

Investment & Acquisitions

ParAccel & 1 more

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Exit Details

Acquired by HCL Technologies (Apr 12, 2018)

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Actian is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Reports
Actian Corporation CIN: 203162700 , United States, Active	Dec 26, 999	-	237 (As on Dec 31, 2024)	-

Actian got acquired by HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners on Apr 12, 2018 at an acquisition amount of $*****.

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Actian is a funded company. Actian has 2 institutional investors.

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The founders of Actian is Shiv Nadar.

Here are the details of Actian's key team members:

Shiv Nadar: Founder of Actian and founder of 5 other companies, including HCL Infosystems, Shiv Nadar School and HCLSoftware. They serve on the board of 1 company.
Contact Info: 2 email addresses
Steve Shine: CEO of Actian.

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Actian's employee count trend

Actian has 159 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Actian's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Actian include Collibra, Atlan and Nexla. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Actian, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Collibra 2008, Brussels (Belgium), Series G	Provider of a platform for data intelligence, governance, and AI management	$596M	ICONIQ Growth, Sofina & 13 others	72/100
2nd	Atlan 2019, San Francisco (United States), Series C	Developer of AI-driven data governance and metadata management platform	$206M	WaterBridge, Insight Partners & 35 others	70/100
3rd	Nexla 2016, San Mateo (United States), Series B	Provider of AI-powered data integration platform designed for enterprise agent applications	$33.5M	Industry Ventures, Shield Capital & 7 others	70/100
4th	Informatica 1993, Redwood City (United States), Acquired	Provider of cloud data management solutions leveraging AI-powered data lifecycle management	-	Salesforce Ventures, Susquehanna Growth Equity ... & 5 others	70/100
5th	NetApp 1992, San Jose (United States), Public	Provider of cloud based platform offering software for enterprise data management	-	Greenleaf Trust, TA Associates & 5 others	70/100
6th	Julius AI 2022, San Francisco (United States), Seed	AI-powered data analysis platform for businesses	$11M	Bessemer Venture Partners, Y Combinator & 9 others	68/100
7th	Transwarp 2013, Shanghai (China), Public	Provider of big data infrastructure software and full data lifecycle products	$188M	CICC Capital, Goldstone Investment & 17 others	67/100
8th	FireBolt 2019, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series C	Developer of a cloud data warehouse platform for analytical workloads	$269M	Alkeon Capital, Dawn Capital & 7 others	65/100
9th	Onna 2015, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	SaaS based eDiscovery	$54M	Atomico, Dawn Capital & 10 others	63/100
10th	Canoe Intelligence 2017, New York (United States), Acquired	Cloud-based investment documents and data management for enterprises	$72.8M	Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq & 6 others	63/100
28th	Actian 2005, Redwood City (United States), Acquired	Hybrid data management platform	-	TriplePoint Capital, Garnett & Helfrich Capital	57/100