Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.

Lior Abraham

Venture Partner

Wayne Anderson

Venture Partner

Jon Armstrong

Venture Partner

Tamara Bain

Venture Partner

Kate Bambino

Venture Partner

Lena Belogolova

Venture Partner

Bryan Beshore

Venture Partner

Rajiv Bhat

Venture Partner

Amitav Chakravartty

Venture Partner

Bryant Chou

Venture Partner

Andrew DSouza

Venture Partner

Michael Dilworth

CFO and Partner

Kshitij Dixit

Venture Partner

Cobi Druxerman

Venture Partner

Luqui Díaz

Venture Partner

Steli Efti

Venture Partner

James Fong

Venture Partner

Taro Fukuyama

Venture Partner

Jarret Glasscock

Venture Partner

Jason Gray

Managing Partner

Alanna Gregory

Venture Partner

Ranvir Gujral

Venture Partner

Joshua Halickman

Venture Partner

Taylor Halliday

Venture Partner

Michael Heinrich

Venture Partner

Nancy Hua

Venture Partner

Albert Huang MD

Venture Partner

Faiz Jalia

Analyst

Steven Johnston

Venture Partner

Beth Kolko

Venture Partner

Jackie Kong

Venture Partner

Kwin Hultman Kramer

Venture Partner

Greg Kress

Venture Partner

Ashwin Kumar

Venture Partner

Tiffany Kuo

Venture Partner

Vanessa Lee

Venture Partner

Ilya Lichtenstein

Venture Partner

Evan Lodge

Venture Partner

Parthi Loganathan

Venture Partner

Richard Ma

Venture Partner

Rohit Malhotra

Venture Partner

Ritik Malhotra

Venture Partner

Matthew McDonald

Venture Partner

Dave Messina

General Partner

Will Mitchell

Venture Partner

Francesco Mosconi

Venture Partner

Anthony Nemitz

Venture Partner

Victor Ng

Venture Partner

Peter Nixey

Venture Partner

Eric Norman

Visiting General Partner

Will Olsen

Venture Partner

Jon Parker

Venture Partner

Amit Patel

Venture Partner

Puja Patel

Venture Partner

David Rabie

Venture Partner

Saad Rizvi

Venture Partner

Juan Salcedo

Venture Partner

Matt Schiller

Venture Partner

William Schlacks

Venture Partner

Robert Schultz

Venture Partner

Jonathan Schwartz

Venture Partner

Martin Shen

Venture Partner

Bradley Siegler

Venture Partner

Vikram Somasundaram

Venture Partner

Laks Srini

Venture Partner

Thomas Steinacher

Venture Partner

Steven Stewart

Venture Partner

Evan Stites-Clayton

Venture Partner

Brad Stronger

Venture Partner

Alexander Strunkin

Venture Partner

Ted Suzman

General Partner

Tim Suzman

General Partner

Jonathan Tang

Venture Partner

Bryan Wilcox

Venture Partner

Kitch Wilson

Venture Partner

Ray Wu

Venture Partner

Andrew Yaroshevsky

Venture Partner

Richard Yu

Venture Partner

Winston Zhang

Venture Partner

Ti Zhao

Venture Partner

Past deals in Database

PeerDB

Seed Round in 2024
PeerDB is a technology company that provides a data movement platform. This platform specializes in efficient replication of Postgres databases and capturing changes in data, allowing clients to sync, transform, and query data across various stores using simple SQL commands.

Stacksync

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Stacksync is a real-time and bidirectional data synchronization tool between CRMs (e.g. Salesforce, Hubspot or SAP) and databases (e.g. Postgres, Google BigQuery,...). Edits made in your CRM will instantly update in your Database, and vice-versa. To set up a sync, users simply have to connect the two chosen apps in one click and select the tables they want to sync, no-code! Stacksync reduces implementation delays from months to minutes for CRM integration projects and removes all the complexity behind CRM new feature development. We show a 90% improvement on delivery time and budget.

Defog

Seed Round in 2023
Defog integrates into applications, empowering users to query data instantly via natural language. Its platform leverages large language models to search and visualize both structured (SQL databases, data warehouses) and unstructured data (call transcripts), enabling businesses to embed insights widgets for intuitive user interaction.

Instant

Venture Round in 2022
Instant is a technology company that specializes in providing a real-time client-side database platform aimed at facilitating the development of collaborative applications. By enabling developers to create real-time and offline-capable applications, Instant allows them to prioritize user experience while efficiently managing data synchronization and optimistic updates. The platform serves as a modern alternative to traditional database solutions, enhancing productivity for frontend development and simplifying the complexities associated with real-time data handling.

Hydra

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hydra is an open source Snowflake alternative that transforms Postgres into a fast, scalable data warehouse. With Hydra, engineers can standardize both transactional and analytics workloads around the familiar Postgres syntax, tools, and ecosystem without app code changes. Hydra offers a fully managed cloud instance with columnar storage and high throughput writes. In addition, Hydra decouples Postgres' query layer from compute and storage to enable developers to run Postgres queries across any database. Hydra's mission is to end vendor lock-in and standardize on developers' favorite open-source database, Postgres.

Hydra

Seed Round in 2022
Hydra is an open-source data warehouse that specializes in columnar storage, vectorization, and parallelized query execution

OneGraph

Seed Round in 2018
OneGraph Inc is a technology company that provides a GraphQL service designed to connect various Software as a Service (SaaS) APIs, facilitating faster and more efficient integrations for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, OneGraph automates key processes such as parallelization, queuing, and caching, enabling users to manage data requests through a single interface. The platform simplifies authentication flows, making it easier for clients and their customers to access services securely. With support for numerous APIs, including major platforms like Stripe, Salesforce, and GitHub, OneGraph aims to streamline the development process and enhance the overall user experience in accessing and utilizing API data.
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