Who invested in YugaByte

3 rounds we have observed, with the 5 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Big Data & AnalyticsCloud

Valuation: $1.3B, Mar 2026

Funding summaryUpdated 26 Oct 2026

$212Mraised across 3 rounds since 2017, from 3 sources

$8.0MSeries A$16MRound$188MSeries C

Latest round: Series C, $188MOct 2021
Step-upi: 11.8×
Investors: 5

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The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2018201920202021

$8.0MSeries A$16MRound$188MSeries C

First round: Series A, $8.0M
Biggest round: $188M
Usual gap between rounds: 3.3 years

The rounds

Oct 2021
Series C$188M2 new1 returning
Source recorded
Jun 2018
Round$16M1 new1 returning
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Dell Technologies Capital
Reported by FinSMEs
Nov 2017
Series A$8.0M2 new
- Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Jeff Rothschild
Reported by FinSMEs

Founders and team

From YugaByte's own website: 2 founders, 2 on the team.

Kannan MuthukkaruppanCo-Founder & Co-CEO

Karthik RanganathanCo-Founder & Co-CEO

A Fully Managed DBaaSColumnist and Head of Developer Ecosystem
Matt AsayColumnist and Head of Developer Ecosystem

Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

Series A2017Round2018Series C2021

Lightspeed Venture Partners

8VC

Sapphire Ventures

Dell Technologies CapitalJeff Rothschild

Everyone who backed them

Lightspeed Venture PartnersVC firm3rounds

8VCVC firm1round

Sapphire VenturesVC firm1round

Dell Technologies CapitalCorporate VC1round

Jeff Rothschildno record of our own yet1round

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Also claim to have backed them

These 3 firms list YugaByte as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.