Fivetran, Inc.
Headquarters
Oakland, CAFounded
2012CEO / Founder
George FraserEmployees
1001-5000Funding
Series D+ — $730MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.1/10Website
fivetran.com/
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About Fivetran, Inc.
Fivetran is a data integration platform founded in 2012 by George Fraser and Taylor Brown and headquartered in Oakland, California. The company automates the extraction, loading, and transformation of data from source systems into cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, and Databricks.
Fivetran's core product is a managed connector platform offering hundreds of pre-built connectors to SaaS applications, databases, file systems, and event streams. The company targets data engineering and analytics teams at mid-market and enterprise organizations, with customers including Autodesk, Condé Nast, and JetBlue. Its ELT approach offloads transformation work to the destination warehouse rather than a separate processing layer.
Fivetran raised a $565 million Series D round in September 2021 at a $5.6 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Atlantic, bringing total funding to approximately $730 million. In 2023, the company acquired HVR, a log-based data replication vendor, for $700 million, expanding its capabilities in high-volume database replication. The company employs roughly 1,200 to 1,500 people as of 2023.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Fivetran, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
Airbyte is open-source-first: teams self-host or run Airbyte Cloud and build/modify connectors themselves via its open connector framework, undercutting Fivetran's fully-managed, usage-based (MAR) pricing for technically capable teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedInformatica is the legacy enterprise incumbent, bundling ETL/iPaaS with master data management and governance tooling Fivetran does not offer, sold via negotiated enterprise contracts rather than Fivetran's consumption pricing.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedMatillion pairs managed connectors with a visual, in-warehouse transformation builder that overlaps with the combined Fivetran+dbt stack, targeting the same Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery customer base on a per-credit consumption model.
Hevo Data targets the mid-market/SMB segment Fivetran has moved upmarket from, offering flat-rate pricing and a smaller connector catalog for cost-sensitive teams.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Fivetran, Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Completes merger with dbt Labs
Fivetran and dbt Labs completed their previously announced all-stock merger, combining data movement and data transformation under Fivetran CEO George Fraser.
fivetran.com - Partnership
Becomes steward of the Great Expectations (GX Core) open source project
Fivetran took over stewardship of the Great Expectations open-source data-quality community and the GX Core project.
fivetran.com - Milestone
Announces all-stock merger with dbt Labs (pending close)
Fivetran and dbt Labs announced an all-stock merger agreement to combine data-movement and data-transformation into one platform; the deal had not yet closed at announcement.
fivetran.com - Acquisition
Acquires Tobiko Data
Fivetran acquired Tobiko Data, maker of the SQLMesh transformation framework, adding data-transformation capability to its platform.
news.google.com - Acquisition
Acquires Census
Fivetran acquired reverse-ETL company Census, expanding into activating warehouse data back into SaaS and operational tools alongside its ingestion business.
news.google.com - Funding
Series D — $565M at $5.6B valuation
Fivetran raised $565 million in a Series D round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $5.6 billion and bringing its total funding raised to $730 million.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquires HVR Software for $700M
Fivetran acquired data-replication competitor HVR Software for $700 million in cash and stock, announced alongside its Series D raise.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquires Teleport Data
Fivetran acquired Teleport Data, a change-data-capture technology later relaunched as Fivetran Teleport Sync for log-free database replication.
venturebeat.com - Funding
Series C — $100M, becomes a unicorn at $1.2B valuation
Fivetran raised $100 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1.2 billion valuation and unicorn status.
siliconangle.com - Funding
Series B — $44M led by Andreessen Horowitz
Fivetran raised a $44 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its automated data-connector platform.
news.google.com - Founded
Founded by George Fraser and Taylor Brown
Fivetran was founded in 2012 by George Fraser and Taylor Brown; the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch.
ycombinator.com
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