Database AI Startup Jobs

Fully managed, multi-cloud DBaaS for enterprise data and AI workloads.

Open-source, ACID-compliant search & analytics database—an Elasticsearch alternative built on PostgreSQL.

Activeloop provides a data platform for AI and unstructured data, helping teams build, manage, and query multimodal datasets for AI search and model training.

Fully managed change data capture (CDC) streaming platform that replicates production databases into data warehouses and lakes in real time. Trusted by Substack, ClickUp, and Alloy, processing over 700 billion rows annually.

Atlas Data Storage develops DNA-based data storage systems for ultra-long-term, resilient archival storage.

Modern logging and observability platform for AI applications and engineering teams, offering fast log ingestion, search, and alerting with a columnar storage architecture.

Chroma builds open-source data infrastructure for AI, giving developers an embeddings database and retrieval layer to add memory, search, and state to LLM applications.

Contextual AI provides an enterprise platform for building specialized RAG 2.0 agents that enable domain-specific AI applications with advanced retrieval-augmented generation technology.

Convex is a backend-as-a-service platform for modern web applications, combining reactive databases, server functions, and auth-ready infrastructure.

Ditto builds an edge synchronization platform and mobile database that keeps apps in sync even when devices are offline or intermittently connected.

AI-assisted data exchange platform that helps teams collect, map, validate, and transform messy customer data before it enters core systems.

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on the open-source DuckDB engine, enabling fast SQL analytics with no infrastructure to manage. The platform supports hybrid local-cloud execution, allowing analysts to query data seamlessly across laptop and cloud.

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that separates storage and compute to enable instant database branching, autoscaling to zero, and bottomless storage. Acquired by Databricks for approximately $1 billion in May 2025, Neon continues as an independent product.

Nile is a Postgres backend for modern B2B SaaS applications, bundling multi-tenant primitives like auth, authorization, and tenant-aware data infrastructure.

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications, powering AI applications with fast and scalable similarity search at any scale.

PlanetScale is a managed database platform built on Vitess that helps developers ship MySQL workloads with branching, non-blocking schema changes, and global scale.

Prisma builds an open-source ORM, Prisma Postgres, and related tooling for developers building modern data-intensive applications.

Qdrant develops an open source vector database for semantic search and retrieval workloads in production AI systems.

Render provides cloud infrastructure for developers to deploy, run, and scale applications, databases, static sites, and AI workloads.

Developer of the world's first DC data centers built exclusively for solar and wind power. Using proprietary chip design and smart controllers, Rune converts stranded and curtailed renewable energy into compute power at generation sites.

Spiral is a data infrastructure company that provides a multimodal data platform for AI, unifying governance and exposing a single API for every data modality including video, audio, geospatial, and text, engineered for machine-scale throughput to keep GPUs fully saturated.

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative providing a full backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL, including database, auth, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, storage, and vector embeddings for developers.

Tinybird is a real-time data platform that enables data and engineering teams to build real-time data products and APIs at scale. The platform ingests, transforms, and serves large volumes of data with sub-second latency for analytics and operational intelligence.

Agentic BI and data-insights platform that unifies structured/unstructured data and answers with verified source retrieval.

Xano is a scalable no-code backend platform that enables developers and non-developers to build APIs, business logic, and workflows without writing code.