SereneDB secures $2.1M pre-seed funding to challenge the status quo of search and analytics
Berlin-based database startup SereneDB has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round from venture funds Entourage and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
The company is challenging the status quo in analytics by building a real-time search & OLAP database to power modern analytical and AI applications.
Committed to an open-source development approach, this investment will allow SereneDB to set a new industry standard, empowering data enthusiasts and businesses with faster, deeper, real-time data understanding.
The database startup SereneDB has closed its pre-seed funding round, raising $2.1 million. The round was led by venture funds Entourage and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
The team is leveraging its expertise from creating the world’s fastest enterprise grade C++ search library to build the engine for next-generation data applications. The company will use the investment to pursue its core mission: building a dedicated database for real-time search and analytics, redefining current industry standards.
Most search and analytics tools were built to find single, static items, not to analyze fast-changing, complex data. They struggle with real-time updates and deletions and they force teams to stitch together searches, caches and dashboards. The result is slow answers, brittle pipelines and insights that arrive out of date.
SereneDB brings live data and deep analysis into one system. It fuses a powerful and versatile search engine with modern OLAP execution under the standard PostgreSQL umbrella, handles real-time ingestion with correct updates and deletes, and returns complex results in milliseconds. While people and AI agents can ask better questions on most recent data, companies reduce tooling, cost and operational risk by using simple and standardized SQL tools and APIs.
This funding advances SereneDB’s commitment to open-source development, giving the data community a voice in shaping the technology while benefiting fairly from its progress. By enabling trustworthy, real-time insights at any point in the data life cycle, SereneDB aims to set a new practical standard for modern analytics.
Andrey Abramov, Co-Founder at SereneDB, says: “We have grown from a personal project in 2014 into the exceptional team we are today. Our shared purpose has always been to make true real-time analytics a reality. Partnering with Entourage and HTGF gives us the resources to turn this goal into reality, and we appreciate their trust as we deliver on our mission.”
Pieterjan Bouten, Founder and Managing Partner at Entourage, says: “SereneDB’s team has spent years in the trenches of information retrieval, where breakthroughs are rare. They’ve earned their position with core search technology addressing a critical layer of tech that is often overlooked. Unlocking this data foundation paves the way for a wave of new applications. SereneDB is building that infrastructure, and they have the grit to see it through.”
Hendryk Hosemann, Senior Investment Manager at HTGF, says: “As AI becomes central to every software product, engineering teams need the ability to query, analyze, and understand live data in real time at scale. SereneDB is redefining AI-memory infrastructure with search and analytics accessible to everyone through PostgreSQL. It’s incredibly rare to find a team that is both able and daring enough to build at this depth, and we’re proud to back them as they redefine what modern databases can deliver.”