Starburst

Starburst is an enterprise software company offering a platform for SQL analytics that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2017 by Justin Borgman, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Matt Fuller, Piotr Findeisen, and Wojciech Biela. The company is focused on monetizing, and building on, the open-source Presto distributed query engine.

On November 20, 2019 Starburst announced raising $22 million in series A funding from Index Ventures. The company plans on using their series A funding to increase its sales and marketing efforts. A partner of Index Ventures, Mike Volpi, made the following statements regarding their decision to fund Starburst:

Our great fortune was that Justin and Matt are immensely wise and able to put aside ego’s and short term personal gain. We were excited when they came to terms with Dain, Martin, and Dave. The end result was a reborn Starburst — a company constituted of the entrepreneurs that seized the commercial opportunity of Presto and the genius founders who invented it in the first place.