Edelbyte has raised $45 million in a Series A round led by Quiet Capital, valuing the data infrastructure startup at $500 million. The round included participation from all existing investors and new backers QP Ventures (Gil Ofer), Startpoint Capital and Cerca Partners. The company had previously raised a $25 million seed round led by Sequoia with participation from Greenoaks and Swish Ventures, bringing disclosed funding to $70 million.
Founded in November 2025, Edelbyte is led by CEO Avner Aharoni, CTO Evgeney Ryzhyk, VP of Engineering Alexander Sloutsky and VP of Platform Engineering Yoni Leibowitz. The four founders each spent roughly 20 years at Microsoft and worked together for more than a decade on large-scale data systems. Ryzhyk and Sloutsky were part of the original team behind Kusto, the internal Microsoft project that later underpinned products such as Azure Data Explorer; Aharoni and Leibowitz joined that effort subsequently.
Edelbyte’s platform and market positioning
Edelbyte has developed a data platform intended to handle massive volumes of information and the complex query workloads associated with the AI era. The company positions itself against established data infrastructure providers such as Snowflake, Databricks and ClickHouse, targeting a market it estimates at $300 billion. Its platform combines traditional analytics, text search, spatial queries and AI-driven workloads on a single infrastructure to avoid the need for separate systems or data replication.
According to the company, the architecture can significantly compress raw data, reducing storage and processing requirements per query, return results in milliseconds and handle thousands of concurrent queries, including those involving large volumes of historical data. Edelbyte says its platform indexes all available data to support ad hoc queries that were not defined in advance, unlike systems that rely on preconfigured indexes for specific dashboards or reports.
The platform can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as on-premises, with both managed and self-hosted options to allow organizations to search and analyze data regardless of where it is stored.
Edelbyte currently employs approximately 40 people across Israel, Europe and the United States and maintains offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco. It reports operating petabyte-scale systems for Fortune 500 companies and other global organizations, with customers in information security, automotive manufacturing and financial services.
