Tecton

About Tecton

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Tecton

All products by Tecton reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

TectonMachine Learning Platforms

Feature store platform for operational machine learning

Free7.8/10

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Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Tecton competes with, and how they differ.

Databricks8.4/10

The Databricks Lakehouse ships its own native feature-engineering tooling bundled into the platform; Databricks acquired Tecton outright in August 2025, folding its real-time serving into Databricks' own AI-agent tooling rather than continuing to compete standalone.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Amazon Web Services (SageMaker Feature Store)8.3/10

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is bundled free into the AWS ML stack, competing on convenience for AWS-native teams versus Tecton's dedicated, cross-cloud real-time serving layer.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Google Cloud (Vertex AI Feature Store)7.9/10

Vertex AI Feature Store is bundled into Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform at no separate license, targeting GCP-native teams rather than Tecton's cross-cloud dedicated feature platform.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

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Hopsworks

Hopsworks (Sweden, led by ex-Logical Clocks CEO Jim Dowling) is the leading open-source-rooted feature store alternative, positioned as a lower-cost, self-hostable option against Tecton's fully-managed enterprise product.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Tecton's history, with sources.

1. Aug 22, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired by Databricks

   Databricks announced Tecton would join Databricks to embed its real-time feature-serving capabilities into Databricks' AI-agent tooling; tecton.ai now redirects to databricks.com.

   databricks.com
2. Jul 12, 2022Funding

   Series C — $100M led by Kleiner Perkins

   Tecton raised a $100M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Databricks, Snowflake, a16z, Sequoia, Bain Capital Ventures and Tiger Global, at an ~$900M valuation per sources familiar with the deal.

   techcrunch.com
3. Apr 15, 2021Milestone

   Hired Feast open-source founder to lead OSS team

   Tecton hired Willem Pienaar, founder of the open-source Feast feature store (now under the Linux Foundation), to lead its open-source team, deepening Tecton's stewardship of Feast alongside its commercial product.

   techcrunch.com
4. Dec 7, 2020Funding

   Series B — $35M co-led by a16z and Sequoia

   Tecton raised a $35M Series B co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, seven months after its Series A, alongside general availability of its ML feature store platform.

   techcrunch.com
5. Apr 28, 2020Funding

   Series A — $20M led by a16z and Sequoia

   Tecton emerged from stealth with a $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital to build an operational machine learning platform.

   techcrunch.com
6. 2019Founded

   Founded by ex-Uber Michelangelo team

   Mike Del Balso, Kevin Stumpf and Jeremy Hermann left Uber, where they built the Michelangelo ML platform, to found Tecton.

   techcrunch.com