Artie, a fully managed real-time data streaming platform, has raised a $12 million Series A to help companies move from batch-based data movement to streaming-first infrastructure as AI systems shift from dashboards into live, decision-making production environments. The round was led by Dalton Caldwell at Standard Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and a group of angel investors, including Arash Ferdowsi, Benn Stancil, Chris Best, Charles Hearn, and Lenny Rachitsky.
Artie positions its managed platform as a way for engineering teams to build production-grade real-time data pipelines without maintaining streaming infrastructure internally. One example the company highlighted is streaming changes from Postgres into Snowflake so downstream analytics and AI workloads can operate on fresher data with less operational overhead.
Artie said customers, including ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, use the platform to process more than 700 billion rows of data annually, supporting AI and machine learning workloads, customer-facing analytics, and operational systems. The company says its managed approach reduces the need for specialized staffing for challenges such as schema evolution, end-to-end transactional integrity, failure recovery, and handling missing or out-of-order writes.
The new capital will be used to invest in product development, go-to-market efforts, and hiring. Artie said it plans to expand beyond transactional databases and analytical warehouses to additional real-time destinations and sources, including event APIs, search systems such as Elasticsearch, vector databases,s and other platforms. The company said it is growing its team in San Francisco across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and business operations.
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“AI has pushed data out of dashboards and into live systems that make decisions, trigger workflows, and interact with customers. In that world, data freshness becomes a requirement for correctness. We believe the next generation of data infrastructure will be streaming by default, with everything else built on top of that foundation. In a few years, the only companies that won’t be streaming-first will be the ones that haven’t fully embraced AI.”
Jacqueline Cheong, Co-Founder and CEO, Artie
“We were hesitant to outsource mission-critical infrastructure. But after working with Artie, that concern disappeared. I believed in the team before I saw the product — and the product exceeded my expectations. It just works: it’s reliable, scales with us, and delivers near real-time data without adding operational risk.”
Michael Revelo, Director of Data Platform, ClickUp
“AI is only as good as its input data, and data that is out of date is not much different than incorrect data. Artie’s real-time streaming technology makes real-time AI a reality in the enterprise.”
Dalton Caldwell, Co-Founder and Partner, Standard Capital
