Starburst

Starburst, a Boston-based big data analytics company, has raised $414 million across multiple rounds, achieving a $3.35 billion valuation as of February 2022. The company’s largest funding round, a $250 million Series D, was led by Alkeon Capital Management, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Founded in 2017 by Justin Borgman and his team of Trino engineers, Starburst provides a distributed query engine that enables fast, scalable analytics across multiple data sources. Its most recent round in May 2025 continues to fuel enterprise data lake adoption globally.