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As data streaming becomes more in demand, startups in the sector are getting a boost.

, a streaming data startup, announced on Tuesday it raised $100 million in Series C funding. The round was led by , and .

The San Francisco-based startup provides real-time streaming data services bolstered by the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Using the platform, companies are able to analyze data as soon as it鈥檚 collected. Redpanda has amassed a large customer base that spans different sectors, including , , and .

The company says it has enjoyed a healthy fiscal year, which included multiplying its revenue growth 5x over and doubling its workforce. That鈥檚 pretty huge 鈥� especially at a time when startups are experiencing revenue stress and laying off employees in mass workforce reductions, and very few companies are thriving.

That may be the reason for Redpanda鈥檚 oversubscribed raise. The 4-year-old company previously raised a round just 16 months ago. We haven鈥檛 seen many follow-up rounds happen this quickly since the funding boom of 2021 鈥� and look what happened there.

How it works

The platform can be plugged into an open-source streaming API known as Kafka and also can be integrated into companies鈥� existing cloud networks.

鈥淭he hero of the Redpanda story has always been the engineer, hands on keyboard, behind a terminal, materializing her ideas into a working system,鈥� said , the CEO of Redpanda, in a statement. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 who we built Redpanda for, and why we made it easy to use, scalable to double-digit 鈥嬧�媑igabytes per second, and compatible with all the existing applications,”

The platform works by acting as both a data storage system and a data streaming system 鈥� using AI and machine learning, companies can integrate their own data into the machine-learning system to bolster responses, or changes. That sort of platform has been increasingly useful for user-facing applications like Midjourney鈥檚 AI-generated images, or video game platforms.

鈥淎s a new game studio, we needed to build a flexible data platform that empowers our developers to get real-time insights from game events, without having to worry about the backend infrastructure,鈥� Colin Riddell, an executive at , said in a statement. The company is one of Redpanda鈥檚 clients.

While Redpanda has managed to keep up the momentum many startups lost in 2021, we鈥檙e not likely to see other startups in the same place.

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