When was ParAccel founded?

ParAccel was founded in 2005 and raised its 1st funding round 2 years after it was founded.

Where is ParAccel located?

ParAccel is headquartered in San Diego, United States.

How many employees does ParAccel have?

As of Dec 31, 2022, the latest employee count at ParAccel is 91.

Is ParAccel a funded company?

ParAccel is a funded company, having raised a total of $89.5M across 5 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Series B round, raised on Dec 10, 2007.

When was the latest funding round of ParAccel?

ParAccel's latest funding was a $***** Series F round on Apr 25, 2012, with participation from 6 investors. Its primary sector is Big Data Infrastructure. In United States, the Big Data Infrastructure sector has seen $7.42B in funding in 2026 to date.

Where does ParAccel rank among its competitors?

ParAccel ranks 17th amongst 33 active competitors, of which 13 are funded. It stands 7th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Speedata, which secured $44M in Jun, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of ParAccel?

ParAccel's top competitors include Transwarp, Yellowbrick Data and FireBolt. Among them, Speedata secured the most recent funding round in June, 2025.

ParAccel - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

ParAccel is an acqui-hired company based in San Diego (United States), founded in 2005 by Brian Chu. It operates as a Relational Database Managment System for Business Intelligence. ParAccel has raised $89.5M in funding from Menlo Ventures and Tao Venture Partners. The company has 33 active competitors, including 13 funded and 9 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Transwarp, Yellowbrick Data and FireBolt.

Company Details

ParAccel provides ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), which is a parallel relational database system using a shared-nothing architecture with a columnar orientation, adaptive compression, memory-centric design. ParAccel's DBMS engine is built for analytics, initially based on PostgreSQL. Clients include companies in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government including Amazon, The Royal Bank of Scotland, OfficeMax and MicroStrategy.

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Founded Year

2005

Location

San Diego, United States

Stage

Acqui-Hired

Total Funding

$89.5M in 5 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series F, Apr 25, 2012, $*****

Investors

Menlo Ventures & 6 more

Ranked

17^th among 33 active competitors

Employee Count

91 as on Dec 31, 2022

Similar Companies

Transwarp & 35 more

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ParAccel is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Reports
ParAccel, Inc CIN: 204792835 , United States, Active	Feb 22, 2006	-	91 (As on Dec 31, 2022)	-

ParAccel has raised a total funding of $89.5M over 5 rounds. Its first funding round was on Dec 10, 2007. Its latest funding round was a Series F round on Apr 25, 2012 for $*****. 6 investors participated in its latest round. ParAccel has 7 institutional investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of ParAccel:

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Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Apr 25, 2012	1845102	Series F	4702114	4004221	1486891	9395814
Jun 24, 2011	5016864	Series E	2186734	7605044	7982792	Menlo Ventures & 6 more
Dec 30, 2010	1689448	Series D	9911632	8309762	6741343	1295671

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The founders of ParAccel is Brian Chu.

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

Brian Chu: Co-Founder and Principal Engineer of ParAccel. They serve on the board of 1 company.

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ParAccel's employee count trend

ParAccel has 91 employees as of Dec 22. Here is ParAccel's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of ParAccel include Transwarp, Yellowbrick Data and FireBolt. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of ParAccel, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Transwarp 2013, Shanghai (China), Series D	Provider of big data infrastructure software and full data lifecycle products	$188M	CICC Capital, Goldstone Investment & 17 others	62/100
2nd	Yellowbrick Data 2014, Palo Alto (United States), Series C	Provider of data warehousing and analytics platform deployable across multiple environments	$292M	DFJ Growth, Next47 & 11 others	62/100
3rd	FireBolt 2019, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series C	Developer of a cloud data warehouse platform for analytical workloads	$269M	Alkeon Capital, Dawn Capital & 7 others	60/100
4th	Actian 2005, Redwood City (United States), Acquired	Hybrid data management platform	-	TriplePoint Capital, Garnett & Helfrich Capital	58/100
5th	Netezza 2000, Marlborough (United States), Acquired	Big data warehousing solutions provider	$73.2M	Meritech, Sequoia Capital & 7 others	52/100
6th	Sqream 2010, New York City (United States), Series C	Developer of a GPU-native data acceleration platform for AI factories	$118M	Mangrove Capital Partners, Alibaba Group ... & 14 others	52/100
7th	Teradata 1979, San Diego (United States), Public	Provider of data analytics, cloud solutions, and artificial intelligence services	-	Stifel, Norwest & 4 others	50/100
8th	Speedata 2019, Netanya (Israel), Series B	Provider of a platform offering analytics processing solutions	$114M	Walden Catalyst, 83NORTH & 7 others	49/100
9th	Citusdata 2011, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Provider of distributed relational databases	$13.3M	Khosla Ventures, Streamlined Ventures & 15 others	49/100
10th	Greenplum Database 2003, Palo Alto (United States), Series D	Open source MPP datawarehouse	$121M	Meritech, Boldstart Ventures & 1 others	46/100
17th	ParAccel 2005, San Diego (United States), Acqui-Hired	Relational Database Managment System for Business Intelligence	$89.5M	Amazon, SVB & 5 others	37/100