FA Company Spotlight: Promethium
Six years ago, a quiet rebellion began in Menlo Park. Not in code or theory, but in a conviction that enterprise data shouldn’t require a priesthood to access. That rebellion now wears a name: Promethium. And it’s not asking for permission, it’s building an Agentic Data Fabric to pull enterprise analytics out of the ivory tower and drop it into every cubicle, boardroom, and browser tab, on demand, in real time, no pipelines, no hand-holding, no excuses.
Founded in 2018 by data veteran kaycee lai, who saw the slow bleed of insight inside EMC, VMware, Microsoft, and Waterline Data, Promethium wasn’t chasing buzzwords. It was chasing fluency, the idea that data should answer questions the moment they’re asked. Lai didn’t just want faster dashboards. He wanted SQL and natural language to shake hands. He patented the grip. Twice. And in October 2024, he handed the operational reins to Prat Moghe, a heavyweight with a PhD and a Cloudera-to-Netezza-to-Cazena resume built for enterprise velocity. Now, with Moghe as CEO and Lai as Chief Strategy Officer, the signal is clear: Promethium isn’t scaling, it’s sprinting.
This isn’t some Frankenstein mashup of dashboards and patch work. It’s patented, precision-grade architecture. Natural language to SQL. Instant federated queries. Zero data movement. No prep. No pipelines. Just answers, auditable, explainable, and instantly delivered via UI, BI, or marketplace. They’ve run 16,000 business questions across customers like Quest Diagnostics, Vital Farms, and one of the country’s largest utilities, saving thousands of hours and millions in stalled insight. That’s not hype. That’s execution.
$34.5 million raised to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners, with .406 Ventures and Zetta in the room. Promethium’s signal is loud enough for Gartner to name them a 2024 Cool Vendor and sharp enough to take home a 2022 SIIA CODiE for Best Data Tools. The team reads like an all-star draft: Durgesh Mankekar (engineering), Lovan Chetty (product & success), Sam Berg (sales). All climbing the same wall: real-time, AI-native, enterprise-grade answers.
The market’s catching up. Data fabric is clocking a 21.2% CAGR, headed for $12.91B by 2032. But Promethium isn’t just surfing a wave, it’s shaping the break, enabling federated querying without data movement, natural language interrogation with full lineage, and Gen AI-powered self-service without the snake oil.
They’re hiring now. Engineers, builders, signal boosters. Remote-first, curiosity-fed, ownership-obsessed. This isn’t a seat at the table, it’s the blueprint.
https://promethium.ai/careers/
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