Artie
Category: AI Infrastructure
Fully managed real-time data replication/streaming platform (CDC) that moves data from databases to warehouses/lakes with sub-minute latency, without customers building Kafka infrastructure. Artie was founded in 2023. The company is led by Jacqueline Cheong. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $15.3M. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include Standard Capital (Dalton Caldwell), Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, Exponent Founders Capital, General Catalyst, Sancus Ventures, Banana Capital, Arash Ferdowsi, Benn Stancil, Chris Best, Charles Hearn, Lenny Rachitsky.
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $15.3M
Value proposition
Deploy real-time change data capture (CDC) streaming in minutes instead of the 1-2 years typically required to build in-house Kafka/Debezium pipelines, with exactly-once delivery, automatic schema evolution, and sub-minute latency.
Products and solutions
Managed CDC/streaming ELT platform, connectors for Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, PlanetScale (via Vitess VStream) and more, deployable in customer's own cloud or on-prem, column-level PII masking/encryption/hashing, SCD type 1 & 2 support, open-sourced and managed versions.
Unique value
Sub-minute latency streaming with exactly-once delivery and automatic schema evolution, deployable in under an hour vs. 1-2 year in-house builds on Kafka/Debezium; fully managed with no data storage by Artie (reads replication log, streams directly to destination).
Target customer
Data platform/engineering teams at growth-stage and enterprise companies needing real-time data movement from operational databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB) into warehouses/lakes for analytics and AI/ML use cases.
Industries served
Horizontal data infrastructure — used across SaaS, AI/ML, e-commerce, and analytics-heavy companies.
Technology advantage
Change Data Capture (CDC) + stream processing built on Kafka internals but abstracted away from the user; handles fan-in from multiple single-tenant DBs into unified schemas; SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA compliant; claims 700+ billion rows replicated per year.
How they differentiate
Positions as faster-to-deploy and lower-maintenance than self-managed Kafka/Debezium stacks (no infrastructure to run), while offering more real-time/lower-latency delivery than batch-oriented ELT tools like Fivetran; emphasizes zero data storage/security posture and AI-era real-time freshness (vs. dashboards-only competitors).
Main competitors
Fivetran, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Debezium/Confluent (Kafka-based CDC), Airbyte, Streamkap
Key partnerships
Y Combinator (S23 batch), customer case studies with ClickUp, Tatango, supports integrations with Snowflake and other major warehouses.
Notable customers
ClickUp, Substack, Alloy, Tatango, Routable, Blockaid, Synctera, YNAB (logo customers on homepage)
Major milestones
2023: Founded by Jacqueline Cheong and Robin Tang, joined YC S23 batch. Sept 2023/Feb 2024: $3.3M seed round (announced Feb 2024). Jan 2026: $12M Series A led by Standard Capital to expand real-time data streaming for AI systems.
Growth metrics
700+ billion rows replicated per year; site displays a live counter (223M+ rows/minute, illustrative); customers report 90-98%+ reductions in latency/maintenance overhead and recovery time drops from hours to minutes.
Market positioning
Mid-market to enterprise-focused real-time data streaming/CDC platform positioned at the intersection of data infrastructure and AI-readiness (fresh data for AI agents/LLMs), competing against both legacy ELT (Fivetran) and DIY streaming stacks (Kafka/Debezium/Confluent).
Geographic focus
Primarily US market (SF-based), competing globally against US-based data infra incumbents.
About Jacqueline Cheong
Equity research at Bank of America and hedge fund analyst at Balyasny Asset Management covering enterprise software prior to founding Artie; UC Berkeley Applied Math; co-founded Artie in 2023 with Robin Tang.
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Official website: https://www.artie.com