Imply Data
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Burlingame, California , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Commercial services for Apache Druid |
Imply Data, Inc. is a United States-based software company that offers commercial services for the open-source Apache Druid, a real-time database engineered specifically for analytics use cases.
History
Druid was initially released as open-source software in October 2012 under the GPL. Its adoption by prominent organizations such as Netflix and Yahoo led to a transition to the more flexible Apache.
In October 2015, Imply secured $2 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and introduced its inaugural product. This offering integrated Apache Druid with supplementary open-source elements including a graphical user interface and the PlyQL SQL-like query language, alongside enterprise-grade support.
By December 2019, Imply had raised $30 million in a financing round spearheaded by Andreessen Horowitz, which placed the company’s valuation at $350 million. Existing investors like Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Ventures also participated.
In June 2021, a Series C funding round of $70 million led by Bessemer Venture Partners doubled the valuation to $700 million.
November 2021 saw Imply unveil Project Shapeshift, an initiative to create a hardware-agnostic, auto-scaling control plane and SaaS platform for Apache Druid. This effort aims to broaden the Druid SQL API capabilities beyond querying to include ingestion, processing, and transformation, establishing a serverless and elastic consumption environment.