ClickHouse — Cyborg Score 9/10

Exceptional
Database Software / OLAP Analytics

Strategic Profile

ClickHouse has attracted AI-focused customers including Sierra, Poolside, Weights & Biases, and LangChain, positioning it as infrastructure for the AI era where real-time analytics demands are exploding. The company's fast revenue growth and premium valuation position the less-than-five-year-old company for an IPO within the next few years.

Cyborg Score Rationale

Revenue tripled YoY to $250M by May 2026 while expanding enterprise contracts and customer count, demonstrating both efficient unit economics and market validation. A $400M Series D at $15B valuation in January 2026 from marquee investors and a $1B+ total funding base signal exceptional investor confidence. The combination of hypergrowth, strong enterprise adoption, and deep infrastructure positioning creates compelling fundamentals.

Top Insights

  • Revenue grew 56% from January to May 2026 while customer count expanded 33%, indicating expanding average contract values and deepening enterprise adoption.
  • New enterprise customers include Anthropic, Tesla, and Mercado Libre, joining OpenAI, Sony, Meta, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart.
  • Co-founder Yury Izrailevsky expects revenue to reach the high-nine digits by end of 2026.
  • ClickHouse acquired LibreChat in November 2025 to democratize AI analytics with open-source agentic AI data stack.

Named Competitors

  • Snowflake — Cloud-native data warehouse and analytics
  • Databricks — Lakehouse platform for analytics and AI
  • DuckDB — Embedded OLAP database engine
  • Apache Druid — Real-time OLAP datastore

Recent Developments

  • (May 2026) Hit $250M annualized revenue, tripling YoY, and added 4,000 customers
  • (January 2026) Closed $400M Series D funding at $15B valuation led by Dragoneer
  • (November 2025) Acquired LibreChat and partnered with Japan Cloud for regional expansion
  • (May 2025) Raised $350M Series C led by Khosla Ventures

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