Databento is a simpler, faster way to get market data
Having spent many years at the world’s leading trading firms, we’ve integrated over a hundred trading venues and data providers, and have seen the massive effort and cost involved in taking a new dataset to production.
So we set out to fix this, starting with the radical idea that you should only pay for the data that you use. With that, we became the world’s first market data provider to offer usage-based pricing.
Today, thousands of users—from pre-product startups to investment firms with billions in AUM—trust Databento’s APIs to provide 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
2022.09
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, 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.
Naomi Danielle Christie
Frontend engineering
Past: Tech lead at Virtu Financial, VP Design at Signal Zero.
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 & 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
System engineering
Past: Staff Storage Engineer at Pandora. Lead Storage Engineer at Mailchimp. Built over 40 PB of storage.
Jennifer DeRome
Marketing & Growth
Past: 8 years at UserTesting. Investor Relations at Citco Fund Services. JP Morgan.
Nick Macholl
API engineering
Past: Senior software engineer at Tower Research Capital.
Lizzy Miggins
Sales
Past: Data sales at SensorTower and Bloomberg, with a focus on financial institutions.
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