Databento is a simpler, faster way to get market data
With years of experience at the world's leading trading firms, our team has integrated hundreds of trading venues and data providers. We know firsthand the massive cost and effort required to bring a new dataset to production.
We set out to fix this, starting with the radical idea that you should only pay for the data that you use. Databento's technology has introduced many industry firsts, including the delivery of full order book feeds over the cloud.
Today, thousands of users—from pre-product startups to investment firms with billions in AUM—trust Databento's APIs for their market data needs.
2019.02
Databento founded
On a mission to create a better data experience
2021.11
Series A
Over $27M raised in initial rounds of funding
2023.04
Public launch
Our flagship, pay-as-you-go historical data service
2023.08
Live data released
Real-time options and equities become available.
Our team
Databento was built to serve companies at the forefront of finance. That’s reflected in our team composition: members with previous experience at trading firms like Virtu Financial, Flow Traders, Two Sigma, Tower Research Capital, and modern tech companies like Google, Stripe, Pico, and Amazon Web Services.
Our team spans major cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Sydney—across a total of eight time zones.
Meet our members
Zach Banks
API engineering
Past: Tech lead of high-frequency market data team at Two Sigma.
Christina Qi
Co-founder, CEO
Past: Partner at Domeyard. Sales and Trading at UBS. Goldman Sachs.
Renan Gemignani
Core engineering
Past: Tech lead of connectivity at Flow Traders.
Vinicius Livramento
Core engineering
Past: Tech lead of connectivity at Flow Traders. Software engineer at ASML.
Roberto Mesado
Frontend engineering
Past: Tech lead and quantitative research developer at Rotella Capital Management.
Enda Peng
Data engineering
Past: Tech lead of data onboarding team at Two Sigma. Microsoft and Baidu.
Siqi Chen
Product
Past: UX at Microsoft. Product Strategist at 3M.
Adam Burmister
Frontend engineering
Past: Frontend Engineer at Stripe. Software Engineer at Pinterest.
Jack Culhane
Core engineering
Past: Principal Software Engineer at Pico. Architected 100G appliance at Corvil.
Tessa Hollinger
Marketing and growth
Past: COO at Sans Gene. Product Manager at Surface Magazine.
Luca Lin
API engineering
Past: Partner, Head of Trading and Quant Research at Domeyard.
Bianca Woo
Frontend engineering
Past: Key engineer in building satellite ground station sharing platform at Infostellar.
Trey Palmer
Systems engineering
Past: Staff Storage Engineer at Pandora. Lead Storage Engineer at Mailchimp. Built over 40 PB of storage.
Frank He
Product
Past: Design lead at Bytedance. Senior product designer at Salesforce.
Nick Macholl
API engineering
Past: Senior software engineer at Tower Research Capital.
Tom Madureira
Systems engineering
Past: Performance and trading systems engineer at Flow Traders.
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