When was Kognitio founded?

Kognitio was founded in 1989 and raised its 1st funding round 22 years after it was founded.

Where is Kognitio located?

Kognitio is headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom.

How many employees does Kognitio have?

As of Mar 01, 2026, the latest employee count at Kognitio is 11 - 50.

Is Kognitio a funded company?

Kognitio is a funded company, having raised a total of $***** in its 1st and only funding round, a Series B round on Jan 17, 2011.

When was the latest funding round of Kognitio?

Kognitio's latest funding was a $***** Series B round on Jan 17, 2011, with participation from 1 investor.

Where does Kognitio rank among its competitors?

Kognitio ranks 35th amongst 50 active competitors, of which 13 are funded. It stands 11th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was HarperDB, which secured an undisclosed amount in Jun, 2024.

Who are the top competitors of Kognitio?

Kognitio's top competitors include Redis, GridGain and Zilliz. Among them, HarperDB secured the most recent funding round in June, 2024.

Kognitio - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Kognitio is a series B company based in Bracknell (United Kingdom), founded in 1989. It operates as an In-Memory MPP Platform. Kognitio has raised an undisclosed amount in funding. The company has 50 active competitors, including 13 funded and 3 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Redis, GridGain and Zilliz.

Company Details

Kognitio has an in-memory massively parallel processing platform that can be integrated with data warehouses or hadoop to bring all the data into RAM for faster processing. The Kognitio Analytical Platform can be used for faster ad-hoc querying as well as for complex analytical processing. It runs on in-house servers, as an appliance, or in Kognitio Cloud, a ready-to-use analytical Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in a public or private cloud environment. Its clients include Aimia, Bet365, Catapult, The Blueberry Wave etc.

Website: kognitio.com
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Founded Year

1989

Location

Bracknell, United Kingdom

Stage

Series B

Latest Funding Round

Series B, Jan 17, 2011, $*****

Investors

VCDE Venture Partners & 1 more

Ranked

35^th among 50 active competitors

Employee Count

11 - 50 as on Mar 01, 2026

Similar Companies

Redis & 18 more

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Kognitio is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
Kognitio Limited CIN: 2127833 , Germany, Active	May 04, 1987	£1M - £10M (As on Mar 31, 2016)	15 (As on Sep 30, 2019)

Kognitio has raised funding over 1 round. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Jan 17, 2011 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Kognitio has 2 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Kognitio:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Jan 17, 2011	1671988	Series B	7360737	1325155	2483795	8180220

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Kognitio's Board of Directors

Kognitio's board has 5 active members. Stephen James Hill, William Roger Llewellyn, John Hadjioannou, Geoffrey William Squire and Hans-Christian Boos are independent board members.

Here is the list of Kognitio's board of directors:

Name	Type	Representing	Status	Duration
juwucch	Team	-	Past	6y 2m
otmsbeh	Team	-	Past	4y 2m
Stephen James Hill	Independent board member	-	Current	10y 2m
eqnulxj	Independent board member	-	Current	2y 2m
sikpoxt	Independent board member	-	Current	4y 7m
rzlqkwh	Independent board member	-	Current	1y 1m
njjrnnz	Independent board member	-	Current	9y 9m
bwiyjoa	Independent board member	-	Past	8y 8m
lhxcuco	Independent board member	-	Past	7y 3m
w{rrpay	Independent board member	-	Past	8y 1m
hemhuca	Independent board member	-	Past	9y 6m
aywubwe	Independent board member	-	Past	3y 8m
mdpofms	Independent board member	-	Past	1y 7m
rjsadgd	Independent board member	-	Past	9y 2m
qejpitb	Independent board member	-	Past	9y 7m
aakydep	Independent board member	-	Past	8y 6m
kpxubmn	Independent board member	-	Past	6y 4m
hgj{dtc	Independent board member	-	Past	9y 7m

Kognitio's employee count trend

Kognitio has 11 - 50 employees as of Mar 26. Here is Kognitio's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Kognitio include Redis, GridGain and Zilliz. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Kognitio, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Redis 2011, Mountain View (United States), Series G	Cloud based in memory database platform	$355M	Bain Capital Ventures, Viola Group & 17 others	74/100
2nd	GridGain 2007, Foster City (United States), Acquired	Provider of a unified real-time data platform for AI, analytics	$33.4M	Almaz Capital, Fort Ross Ventures & 5 others	71/100
3rd	Zilliz 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Provider of a vector similarity search engine and data processing platform	$113M	Aramco Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures & 12 others	59/100
4th	Volt Active Data 2009, Bedford (United States), Series C	Developer of a data platform for real-time streaming and decisions	$48.6M	Kepha Partners, Sigma Partners & 1 others	55/100
5th	Memgraph 2016, London (United Kingdom), Seed	Developer of a graph database for real-time AI context solutions	$14.2M	Techstars, M12 & 28 others	55/100
6th	Voltron Data 2021, Mountain View (United States), Series A	Apache arrow ecosystem for accelerating analytical tools	$110M	Walden Catalyst, BlackRock & 12 others	50/100
7th	Splice Machine 2012, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Relational Database powered by HBASE and Hadoop	$75M	Mohr Davidow Ventures, InterWest Partners ... & 8 others	48/100
8th	HarperDB 2017, Denver (United States), Series A	Developer of a platform unifying database, cache, application, and messaging layers	$6.07M	Serent Capital, Break Trail Ventures & 1 others	46/100
9th	Dragonfly 2022, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series A	Provider of a platform offering in memory database	$21M	Quiet Capital, Redpoint Ventures	46/100
10th	Hazelcast 2008, Palo Alto (United States), Series D	Open source In-memory data grid	$66.7M	DEG, C5 Capital & 7 others	46/100
35th	Kognitio 1989, Bracknell (United Kingdom), Series B	In-Memory MPP Platform	-	VCDE Venture Partners, ACXIT Capital Partners	22/100