When was Materialize founded?

Materialize was founded in 2017 and raised its 1st funding round 2 years after it was founded.

Where is Materialize located?

Materialize is headquartered in New York City, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Materialize?

Arjun Narayan and Niji Sabharwal s of Materialize. Niji Sabharwal has also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Materialize have?

As of Aug 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Materialize is 76.

Is Materialize a funded company?

Materialize is a funded company, having raised a total of $108M across 3 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Series A round, raised on 2019.

When was the latest funding round of Materialize?

Materialize's latest funding was a $***** Series C round on Sep 30, 2021, with participation from 3 investors. Its primary sector is PaaS. In United States, the PaaS sector has seen $1.98B in funding in 2026 to date.

Where does Materialize rank among its competitors?

Materialize ranks 33rd amongst 554 active competitors, of which 132 are funded. It stands 10th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Hex, which secured $70M in May, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Materialize?

Materialize's top competitors include MongoDB, Alteryx and Confluent. Among them, Hex secured the most recent funding round in May, 2025.

Materialize - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Cloud based streaming and data analytics platform. The product offered by the company is a platform for SQL on streaming data. The features of the product include reusing of skills from traditional SQL queries and applications, data denormalization, application development, alerts, and notifications, real time data visualizations, task automation, etc.

Website: materialize.com
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Email ID: *****@materialize.io

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2017

Location

New York City, United States

Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$108M in 3 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series C, Sep 30, 2021, $*****

Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners & 5 more

Ranked

33^rd among 554 active competitors

Employee Count

76 as on Aug 31, 2026

Similar Companies

MongoDB & 342 more

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Materialize is associated with 3 legal entities given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
MATERIALIZE, INC. CIN: 5494507 , United States, Active	Feb 14, 2019	-	-	-
Materialize, Inc CIN: 833020973 , United States, Active		-	28 (As on Dec 31, 2024)	-
MATERIALIZE, INC. CIN: 83-3020973 , United States, Active	Jan 03, 2019	-	21 (As on Dec 31, 2020)	-

Materialize has raised a total funding of $108M over 3 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2019. Its latest funding round was a Series C round on Sep 30, 2021 for $*****. 3 investors participated in its latest round. Materialize has 5 institutional investors and 1 angel investor.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Materialize:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Sep 30, 2021	6367414	Series C	4747538	5436138	1067127	7052648
Nov 30, 2020	2702367	Series B	3482833	9803408	6202148	Lightspeed Venture Partners
2019	7115	Series A	7261	7049	Lightspeed Venture Partners	8895

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The founders of Materialize are Arjun Narayan, Frank McSher, Frank McSherry, Niji Sabharwal and Jennifer Knight. Niji Sabharwal is the CEO of Materialize.

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

Arjun Narayan: Co-Founder & CEO of Materialize and founder of 1 other company.
Contact Info: 4 email addresses
Frank McSher: Co-Founder of Materialize.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Frank McSherry: Co-Founder of Materialize.
Niji Sabharwal: CEO of Materialize.
Contact Info: 2 email addresses
Jennifer Knight: Co-Founder of Materialize.

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Materialize's employee count trend

Materialize has 76 employees as of Aug 26. Here is Materialize's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Materialize include MongoDB, Alteryx and Confluent. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Materialize, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	MongoDB 2007, New York City (United States), Public	Provider of a cloud-based database-as-a-service platform	$311M	Sequoia Capital, Intel & 26 others	84/100
2nd	Alteryx 1997, Irvine (United States), Acquired	Cloud based suite of data analytics solutions	$163M	Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures & 12 others	77/100
3rd	Confluent 2014, Mountain View (United States), Acquired	Provider of a platform for data streaming and event processing	$456M	Benchmark, Index Ventures & 22 others	76/100
4th	Couchbase 2009, Mountain View (United States), Acquired	AI powered dbaas for enterprises	$251M	Accel, North Bridge Venture Partners & 16 others	74/100
5th	DataStax 2010, Santa Clara (United States), Acquired	Provider of data management and AI application development infrastructure solutions	$305M	Meritech, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners ... & 30 others	72/100
6th	Hex 2019, San Francisco (United States), Series C	Provider of Collaborative notebooks for developing applications	$172M	Redpoint Ventures, Amplify Partners & 15 others	70/100
7th	GoodData 2007, San Francisco (United States), Series E	Provider of a data intelligence platform for building agentic applications	$125M	Tenaya Capital, Zendesk & 18 others	70/100
8th	Imply 2015, San Francisco (United States), Series D	Open Source Platform for Exploratory Analytics	$215M	Andreessen Horowitz, Thoma Bravo & 5 others	68/100
9th	PlanetScale 2018, Mountain View (United States), Series C	Provider of the NewSQL-based database-as-a-service platform	$105M	Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire & 23 others	67/100
10th	MiningLamp 2014, Beijing (China), Public	Provider of enterprise big data solutions	$1B	Tencent, Sequoia Capital China & 18 others	66/100
33rd	Materialize 2017, New York City (United States), Series C	Cloud based streaming and data analytics platform	$108M	Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins & 4 others	54/100