We're excited to announce Databento's $97 million Series B, led by @NEA, with participation from DRW Venture Capital, @Redpoint Ventures, @Tribecap, and more. In the last few years, Databento has become the market data provider of choice for many of the world's largest hedge funds, fintechs, and AI labs. If you've ever traded a stock in a mobile app or filled your tank at a gas station, you've almost certainly relied on a product powered by Databento. Market data is a $50B+ industry that underpins nearly every financial decision on the planet. Programmatic access is becoming the industry default — we believe that three years from now, more finance professionals will know how to use a Databento API than a traditional terminal. This round takes us one step closer, as we increase our storage footprint to over 100 petabytes and expand across asset classes and geographies. To our customers and community: Thank you for your enormous support over these past three years! We built this for you, and we can't wait to show you what's next.

Christina Qi, CEO of @DatabentoHQ, joins Nasdaq to discuss what's driving the company's rapid growth—now serving more than 100,000 users across over 100 countries—and how AI is reshaping the market data industry. Watch the full interview here: spr.ly/6010BHOyRr

Introducing Databento Core Indices, our new offering that brings together over 2,500 indices from 7 providers under a single service. Coverage includes major indices used for benchmarking, portfolio valuation, and index options trading: - S&P 500 (SPX) and Russell 2000 (RUT) - Volatility indices including VIX, VIX1D through VIX1Y, VVIX, and SKEW - MSCI EAFE and Emerging Markets - Cboe UK and Europe indices - 1,400+ Morningstar indices - Intraday indicative values (iNAVs) for nearly 300 ETFs, including TQQQ and SQQQ - Crypto indices and reference rates Live and historical data are included with subscription plans, starting at $99/month. Historical data is also available at usage-based rates. Read the full announcement: to.dbn.to/coreindices

🇳🇱 Our core engineering team is in Amsterdam to welcome a few of our newest teammates. They're spending the week planning the next phase of our market data infrastructure as we continue to scale globally. Between whiteboarding sessions, the team explored the city and stopped by the bull outside Euronext Amsterdam, home to the world’s oldest stock exchange.

"So tell me about your technical moat"

@DatabentoHQ is like Fort Knox for hard drives lately. We've bought over 100PB of SAS hard disks in 2026, plus about 20PB of flash storage.

AI agents need the same reliable market data that trading firms depend on every day. We’re excited to join the @Tiny_Fish Data Partner Alliance as a founding partner, bringing Databento market data to agents built on TinyFish.

Bentos with Databento 🍱 Recently, we brought together members of the NYC quant community over Japanese food and conversations about hiring and AI. Our Head of People, Casey Sharbaugh, shared some lessons we’ve learned about hiring in the era of AI-generated resumes - followed by plenty of passionate discussion around the table. Subscribe to our Luma calendar to be the first to know when our team is coming to a city near you: to.dbn.to/3V9cL0t

My favorite type of product is something we built for ourselves & use daily: For the past year, our team at Databento has been using a Unix timestamp converter that makes working with timestamps less annoying. Today, we're making it public: epoch.to It automatically detects 100+ input formats, handles exchange time zones, and is available via Chrome extension, open-source CLI, URL shortcut, or website. Hope it saves someone else a few headaches too.

How will AI reshape alpha signal research and development? Last Friday, our CEO, @christinaqi, moderated a debate with quantitative research leaders from Barclays and Deutsche Bank on whether AI will become the dominant approach to developing alpha signals. The panel took place at @cornell_tech's AI & Future of Finance Conference. Thank you to Arik Ben Dor and Caio Natividade for the discussion, and to @RebellionAI and the Cornell team for bringing everyone together! We rounded out a full day in NYC catching up with friends across the VC community.

It was a pleasure being interviewed the trading floor of @NYSE today for NYSE Wired! Thank you @GemmaAllenSays, Marco Chung, @bjbaumann2014, @furrier, @theCUBE, and @thecubetv! ...Here's a snippet on how out-of-the-loop I was on AI, and how far we managed to get without it... 🙈

Our CEO, Christina Qi, will be live from the #NYSE today for an interview with theCUBE + NYSE Wired! Stay tuned for a full week of events we have planned across New York. #NYSEWired #theCUBE #marketdata #trading #newyork #nyc

Thanks @NVIDIA for having us at their HQ this week for their seminar on artificial intelligence and financial investment, co-hosted with BigQuant. Our CEO, @christinaqi, gave a keynote on the "Evolution of AI Infrastructure in Financial Markets," connecting recent advances in AI and ML with how trading firms are evolving their research infrastructure. The event also brought together over 20 leading quant hedge funds in China along with student teams from #Stanford, #MIT, #UCBerkeley, and other universities. Enda Peng, Head of APAC at Databento, joined Christina to share our latest expansion plans in the region.