RudderStack
RudderStack is a customer data platform company that helps businesses collect, unify and activate customer data. The company has raised $82M in funding and employs 129 people.
The growth story
RudderStack grew from 97 to 129 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $82M along the way, most recently a Series B in February 2022.
About
RudderStack provides a platform for data teams to manage customer data pipelines and marketing activation. Its software integrates data collection, unification and activation workflows, with features like infrastructure-as-code capabilities and warehouse-native data processing.
The company has grown to 129 employees since its 2019 founding. It raised $82M in venture funding, including a Series B round in February 2022 backed by investors like Insight Partners and Kleiner Perkins.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is the largest function at RudderStack, making up 37 of its 129 employees. The company has a median employee tenure of 4 years, suggesting stable leadership and organizational structure.
The RudderStack org chart
Soumyadeb Mitra (Founder & CEO) leads 38 mapped leaders with 1 direct report. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 57 (-12% YoY), Sales 10 (-37% YoY), Product Management 8 (+14% YoY), Entrepreneurship 7 (0% YoY), Customer Success and Support 7 (-12% YoY), Information Technology 6 (+20% YoY).
Talent flow
RudderStack recruits heavily from Indian engineering schools, with 12 alumni from IIT Madras and 5 from IIT Roorkee. Its workforce includes former employees from companies like Kiwi, CodeAstra Software and 8x8. Alumni have gone on to roles at Google, Amazon and Goldman Sachs.
Most common previous employers of RudderStack staff: Kiwi (8), CodeAstra Software LLP (5), 8x8 (3), My Ally (Acquired by Phenom) (3), Talentica Software (3), KritiKal Solutions (2). Former RudderStack employees most often moved to Vercel (5), Google (4), Fin (4), SpaceXAI (3), Goldman Sachs (3), Amazon (3).
Alumni worth knowing
The RudderStack mafia
RudderStack alumni have founded 11 companies, including typedef (8 staff), Superslate Technologies (4 staff) and Docny (2 staff). These startups suggest entrepreneurial talent within the company's ranks.
11Kostas Pardalis, was Head of Product until 2022Pandiri Bhagath, was Program Manager until 2022Opemipo Disu, was Developer Advocate until 2021Preeya Ogier, was Blog Editor until 2017Aditya Singh, was Student Intern until 2023
Veena Naik, was Head Of Content until 2021
Matt H., was Head of Organic Growth (AEO/SEO/GEO) until 2026
Sagan Schultz, MD, MBA, was Head of Product until 2024
Dars Sidorova, was Founding GTM EMEA until 2024
Morgan Lundblad, was Head of Strategy & Operations until 2025Web traffic
Traffic mix: 36% direct, 43% search, 3% social, 2% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at RudderStack: JavaScript (43), Python (Programming Language) (41), Java (37), MySQL (32), Software Development (29), SQL (29), Project Management (28), C++ (28).
Where the team actually sits
RudderStack people are concentrated in Telangana, India (21), Karnataka, India (10), California, United States (6), Greece (4).
Search footprint
RudderStack attracts about 16,980 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $167K a month if bought through ads. It gained 3,001 ranking keywords and lost 3,165 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.30 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 4.20 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.80 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 4.00 / 5
Frequently asked
RudderStack has 129 employees as of September 2026.
RudderStack has raised $82M in total, most recently a Series B round in February 2022.
RudderStack was founded in 2019 by Soumyadeb Mitra, Shvet J..
Soumyadeb Mitra (Founder & CEO) sits at the top of RudderStack's reporting structure, with 1 direct report.
The most common previous employers of current RudderStack staff are Kiwi (8 people), CodeAstra Software LLP (5 people), 8x8 (3 people).
Former RudderStack employees most often move to Vercel (5), Google (4), Fin (4).
At least 11 companies have a founder who previously worked at RudderStack, including typedef, Superslate Technologies Private, Docny.
RudderStack attracts about 16,980 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $167K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among RudderStack staff are JavaScript, Python (Programming Language), Java, MySQL, Software Development.
RudderStack staff are concentrated in Telangana, India (21), Karnataka, India (10), California, United States (6).
RudderStack has about 57 people in Engineering, down 12% over the past year, as of September 2026.
RudderStack has about 10 people in Sales, down 37% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 91 current and 211 former RudderStack profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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