Databento CEO Christina Qi speaks with me in a Fortt Knox 1:1 on rebuilding market data from the hardware up. Her own servers colocated inside exchanges, sold self-serve instead of through salespeople – now about 80,000 customers, 38 employees, a $97M Series B. Born in China, she moved to Logan, Utah at three, and her parents waited tables at the town's one Chinese restaurant while earning master's degrees. Full Fortt Knox conversation linked in the comments:
Databento
Financial Services
Salt Lake City, Utah 23,439 followers
A simpler, faster way to get market data.
About us
Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data - and only pay for what they use. Databento provides both historical and real-time data, both raw PCAPs and normalized data, both usage-based pricing and affordable monthly subscriptions, as well as connectivity solutions. Since launching 3 years ago, Databento has gained over 60,000 customers, from early-stage startups to the largest financial institutions in the world. Databento's team has walked in the shoes of its customers, bringing years of experience running high-frequency trading desks from firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Tower Research.
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https://to.dbn.to/linkedin
External link for Databento
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- Fintech, Market data, and Algorithmic trading
Products
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Databento
Financial Data APIs
Databento modernizes market data access with high-performance APIs and institutional-grade data, combining real-time feeds sourced directly from colocation facilities and petabytes of historical data into a single, self-service platform. Databento is an official data distributor for over 60 venues. Databento has helped thousands of users—including prop firms, hedge funds, and tech startups—access market data instantly and pay only for what they use. With powerful APIs and extensive documentation, teams on Databento can go from idea to production in minutes instead of months, eliminating data infrastructure complexity and freeing up critical engineering resources.
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Databento reposted this
Buying market data used to mean months of phone calls, sales decks, and endless email chains just to get a contract signed. For quants and data scientists, old-school sales cycles moved way too slow. Databento fixed that with a simple self-service model: pick your data, check out, and start pulling via API in minutes. Today, they power 50,000+ customers, from indie traders to world-class institutions. In our latest CEO Fast Track, founder Christina Qi shares why she built Databento as a hardware company first—and how that unconventional choice built a massive moat. Watch here. 👇
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Our $97M Series B made it onto the Nasdaq billboard! Thank you for featuring us for the third time. We're proud to be a Nasdaq partner.
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Today marks a major milestone for Databento. We're proud to share Fortune's exclusive feature on Databento's $97 million Series B. Thank you Lily Mae Lazarus for telling our story so thoughtfully. As our industry undergoes its biggest transformation in decades, we're building the market data platform for modern finance. Read the exclusive in Fortune: https://lnkd.in/eXjXWCYa
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Databento reposted this
🎉 Congratulations, Databento--$97M Series B raised to power the market data platform for modern finance! "It's rare to encounter a company where the product, the traction, and the founding team all point in the same direction with this much clarity. Databento has built the modern foundation this industry has needed for a long time, and the fact that it's earned trust everywhere from students running their first strategies to the world's most sophisticated trading desks isn't by design—it's what best-in-class looks like in a category this fundamental. This is exactly the kind of company we back at NEA, and we're thrilled to be along for the ride." -Rick Yang, NEA 👀 More details from Databento CEO, Christina Qi, here: https://lnkd.in/g94rbn6T
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