Yugabyte
Yugabyte develops YugabyteDB, an open-source distributed SQL database compatible with PostgreSQL, designed for cloud-native applications. The company has raised $291M in funding, including a Series C in 2021, and employs nearly 500 people.
The growth story
Yugabyte grew from 212 to 493 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $291M along the way, most recently a Series C in October 2021.
About
Yugabyte sells a distributed database system that combines document store capabilities with ACID transactions, targeting enterprises needing scalable, resilient data infrastructure for cloud environments. Its product supports both relational and OLTP workloads across public clouds, private clouds, and Kubernetes.
The company has scaled to nearly 500 employees since its 2016 founding, with engineering making up its largest function (141 staff). Its $291M in funding suggests strong investor confidence, with backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital among others.
Founders and leadership
Engineering dominates Yugabyte's workforce with 141 staff, reflecting its product focus. The company maintains a relatively flat tenure profile, with a median employee tenure of just one year.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 191 (+11% YoY), Sales 42 (+83% YoY), Information Technology 32 (0% YoY), Business Development 19 (+19% YoY), Operations 18 (+29% YoY), Customer Success and Support 14 (+27% YoY).
Talent flow
Yugabyte draws heavily from traditional database and infrastructure firms, with Oracle (23 hires), Microsoft (16), and Nutanix (14) as top talent sources. Alumni frequently move to Google (11), Couchbase (9), and Cockroach Labs (6).
Most common previous employers of Yugabyte staff: Oracle (23), Microsoft (16), Nutanix (14), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (12), Google (10), Dell Technologies (9). Former Yugabyte employees most often moved to Google (11), Couchbase (9), Cockroach Labs (6), Snowflake (6), Confluent (5), Amazon (5).
Alumni worth knowing
The Yugabyte mafia
Yugabyte alumni have founded at least 9 companies, including ReN3 (21 staff) and Autoheal (14 staff), showing entrepreneurial spillover from the database specialist.
9Dennis Sze, was Head of Sales, Asia South until 2025Sid Choudhury, was SVP, Product until 2020Neeraj Kumar, was Director of Engineering until 2025Sasha Sinkevich, was Security Architect until 2024Craig Kitterman, was VP of Product until 2024Fred Gallagher, was Vice President of Worldwide Sales until 2019
Wei Wang, was Principal Pre-Sales Engineer until 2025
Dion Kauffman, was Strategic Account Director until 2023
Pritam Roy, was Software Engineer until 2018Web traffic
Traffic mix: 55% direct, 31% search, 3% social, 1% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Yugabyte: Python (Programming Language) (116), Java (113), C++ (102), SQL (95), Linux (92), Cloud Computing (83), C (Programming Language) (77), Databases (77).
Where the team actually sits
Yugabyte people are concentrated in California, United States (32), Karnataka, India (32), Maharashtra, India (24), San Francisco Bay Area (18).
Search footprint
Yugabyte attracts about 6,434 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $46K a month if bought through ads. It gained 1,041 ranking keywords and lost 1,031 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.90 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.70 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.40 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.80 / 5
Frequently asked
Yugabyte has 493 employees as of September 2026.
Yugabyte has raised $291M in total, most recently a Series C round in October 2021.
Yugabyte was founded in 2016 by Karthik Ranganathan, Kannan Muthukkaruppan.
The most common previous employers of current Yugabyte staff are Oracle (23 people), Microsoft (16 people), Nutanix (14 people).
Former Yugabyte employees most often move to Google (11), Couchbase (9), Cockroach Labs (6).
At least 9 companies have a founder who previously worked at Yugabyte, including ReN3, Autoheal, Frogleap Technologies Private.
Yugabyte attracts about 6,434 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $46K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Yugabyte staff are Python (Programming Language), Java, C++, SQL, Linux.
Yugabyte staff are concentrated in California, United States (32), Karnataka, India (32), Maharashtra, India (24).
Yugabyte has about 191 people in Engineering, up 11% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Yugabyte has about 42 people in Sales, up 83% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 239 current and 252 former Yugabyte profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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