Estuary Technologies, a real-time data platform designed to address the data bottleneck hindering enterprise AI adoption, announced today that it has secured $17 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by M13, with participation from FirstMark and Operator Partners.
The investment will accelerate Estuary’s mission to simplify how data moves across complex enterprise systems, enabling dependable, cost-predictable, and AI-ready pipelines.
Today, enterprises face mounting challenges in managing fragmented data stacks, brittle do-it-yourself pipelines, and expensive streaming tools that often fail to deliver fresh, reliable data. These limitations delay AI initiatives and increase operational costs. Estuary’s platform merges real-time and batch data movement, allowing organizations to continuously capture, transform, and synchronize data across more than 200 systems with sub-100ms latency.
With Estuary, companies can reduce costs by 40–60%, accelerate deployment timelines, and maintain precise control over latency and deployment — whether in SaaS, private, or “Bring Your Own Cloud” (BYOC) environments. The platform integrates seamlessly into enterprise workflows, replacing multiple disparate vendors with one unified solution.
The company’s approach to “right-time” data gives users the flexibility to choose when and how data moves — from sub-second streaming to scheduled batch updates — aligning performance and cost to the needs of analytics, AI, and operational systems.
Estuary’s Flow platform is already in use across industries such as finance, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS, delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, reliability, and scalability. Customers report stronger AI outcomes, smoother operations, and faster access to high-quality data, all without the complexity of maintaining separate batch and streaming systems.
How the funding will be used: The funding will allow Estuary to expand its engineering, product, and go-to-market teams as it scales its enterprise offerings globally.
KEY QUOTES:
“Data integration has long meant stitching together multiple vendors and making painful tradeoffs. We built Estuary to eliminate those compromises. By unifying batch and streaming, and letting customers dial latency anywhere from sub-second to scheduled, we give enterprises dependable pipelines that fuel analytics, operations, and AI at lower cost.”
David Yaffe, Co-Founder and CEO, Estuary
“This raise allows us to accelerate toward a future where pipelines simply work, where data moves when and how teams need it, powering both today’s analytics and AI.”
David Yaffe, Co-Founder and CEO, Estuary
“For AI systems like ours, freshness of data is everything. Estuary gives us sub-second latency without the complexity of maintaining streaming infrastructure ourselves. That reliability means our teams can focus on advancing AI models instead of pipelines.”
YuTong (Julia) Zhang, Senior Software Engineer, Together AI
“Estuary has been a pleasure to work with and has significantly modernized our data infrastructure, delivering real-time and scalable processes that will significantly impact company-wide operations. Every data-driven organization should be looking at Estuary today.”
Andrew Woelfel, Senior Manager, Data Engineering and Analytics, Xometry
“M13 is excited to back Estuary as they redefine enterprise data movement. Having scaled DigitalOcean from startup to global infrastructure provider, I’ve seen firsthand how critical dependable, cost-predictable systems are for enterprises. Estuary’s ‘right-time’ approach, unifying batch and streaming with BYOC flexibility, solves enterprises’ complexity and compliance challenges, modernizes data stacks and lays the foundation for AI-driven workloads.”
Karl Alomar, Managing Partner, M13
