Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2017, with its headquarters in Toronto, Canada. The firm focuses on early-stage investments and is particularly tied to the Y Combinator network, comprising over 420 alumni from the accelerator program. Pioneer Fund targets a diverse range of sectors, including consumer products, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence, and education technology, among others. By leveraging its connection to Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund aims to support innovative startups with high growth potential across various industries.

Bryant Chou

Senior Venture Partner

Mike Dilworth

CFO and General Partner

Jarret Glasscock

Senior Venture Partner and Healthcare Biotech

Beth Kolko

Senior Venture Partner

Parthi Loganathan

Venture Partner

Dave Messina

General Partner

Eric Norman

Visiting General Partner

Will Olsen

Venture Partner

Alexander Strunkin

Venture Partner

Jonathan Tang

Senior Venture Partner

Kitch Wilson

Venture Partner

Past deals in Database

PeerDB

Seed Round in 2024
PeerDB is a firm that specializes in cost-effective Postgres replication and change data capturing.

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 is a developer of database software that enables users to query data quickly using natural language. The company's platform leverages large language models to effectively search and visualize both structured data, such as SQL databases and data warehouses, and unstructured data, including text from call transcripts. By integrating into applications, Defog allows businesses to embed insight widgets, empowering users to extract information and ask questions in a straightforward manner. This functionality enhances user experience and facilitates data-driven decision-making.

Instant

Venture Round in 2022
Instant is a developer of a real-time client-side database platform that facilitates the creation of collaborative applications. The platform allows developers to build applications that are both real-time and offline-enabled, enhancing user experience by managing data synchronization, optimistic updates, and offline capabilities. By streamlining these functionalities, Instant aims to increase productivity for developers, allowing them to focus more on the overall user experience.

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 company that provides a GraphQL service designed to connect various Software as a Service (SaaS) APIs, facilitating quicker integrations for its clients. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, OneGraph specializes in handling automatic parallelization, queuing, and caching behind a single request, making it ideal for web and mobile applications. The platform offers robust permission controls for data and query access, ensuring secure authentication for users. With support for numerous APIs, including popular services like Stripe, Salesforce, and GitHub, OneGraph simplifies the development process, allowing businesses to efficiently access and utilize data from multiple sources.
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