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National Post
07-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
Kevin Egan Joins ClickHouse as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Growth
Article content SAN FRANCISCO — ClickHouse, a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced the appointment of Kevin Egan as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). With over two decades of experience building and leading enterprise sales organizations at Atlassian, Slack, Dropbox, and Salesforce, Egan will oversee ClickHouse's global go-to-market functions as demand continues to grow. Article content ClickHouse is emerging as the de facto database powering the real-time, scalable analytics that AI-driven applications demand. Article content 'I'm incredibly excited to join ClickHouse at such a pivotal time,' said Egan. 'As organizations navigate how to compete and thrive in the AI era, ClickHouse is emerging as the de facto database powering the real-time, scalable analytics that AI-driven applications demand. I look forward to building strong relationships not only with forward-thinking customers, but also with our channel and technology partners—working together to help businesses modernize their data infrastructure and unlock transformative outcomes with this foundational technology.' Article content Egan brings diverse experience scaling companies to $1B and beyond. He served most recently as Chief Sales Officer at Atlassian, overseeing global sales strategy across a multi-product portfolio. He previously held senior sales leadership roles at Salesforce, where he spent ten years helping drive global enterprise growth, and at Dropbox, where he played a key role in expanding into enterprise markets, and at Slack, where he led North American sales. Article content Egan's appointment follows ClickHouse's $350 million Series C funding round, with participation from new and existing investors, which brought the company's valuation to $6.35 billion. The investment is supporting the expansion of ClickHouse Cloud, the company's fully managed service, which grew over 300% during the past year and now serves over 2,000 customers across a range of industries from fintech and transportation to consumer and healthcare. Article content In May 2025, ClickHouse hosted its inaugural user conference, Open House, where organizations such as Tesla, OpenAI, and Anthropic shared how they use ClickHouse to analyze petabytes of data in real time. The event reflected ClickHouse's growing presence in critical, large-scale production environments. Article content 'I am absolutely thrilled to work with Kevin again. Having known him for over 20 years, Kevin's proven ability to scale enterprise sales at leading software companies makes him an invaluable addition to the leadership team at our current stage of growth,' shared Aaron Katz, ClickHouse CEO. 'He excels at cultivating trusted customer relationships, building world-class teams, and driving sustainable go-to-market motions. His expertise is exactly what ClickHouse needs as we continue to expand and operate at a larger scale.' Article content About ClickHouse Article content ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database management system built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. Engineered for high performance, ClickHouse Cloud delivers exceptional query speed and concurrency, making it ideal for applications that demand instant insight from massive volumes of data. As AI agents become increasingly embedded in software and are generating far more frequent and complex queries, ClickHouse brings a high-throughput, low-latency engine, purpose-built to meet this challenge. Trusted by leading companies like Sony, Tesla, Anthropic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, ClickHouse helps teams unlock insights and drive smarter decisions with a scalable, efficient, and modern data platform. For more information, visit Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
National Post
29-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
ClickHouse Raises $350 Million Series C to Power Analytics for the AI Era
Article content SAN FRANCISCO — ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from new investors BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as existing investors including Index Ventures, Lightspeed, GIC, Benchmark, Coatue, FirstMark, and Nebius. Today's round follows earlier investments of over $300 million, bringing total funding to over $650 million. Article content Article content This combined funding will be used to scale product development, support global expansion, and deepen partnerships with customers and technology providers building the next wave of AI-native applications. In addition to this financing, ClickHouse has secured a $100 million credit facility led by Stifel and Goldman Sachs. Article content The momentum behind ClickHouse is accelerating: the company grew over 300% during the past year and now serves over 2,000 customers across a range of industries from fintech and transportation to consumer and healthcare. New customers include Anthropic, Tesla, and Argentina's Mercado Libre, among others. They join companies such as Sony, Meta, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, as well as AI innovators Sierra, Poolside, Weights & Bases, Langchain, and more. Article content Today's announcement was made at ClickHouse's inaugural user conference, showcasing how enterprises are building data products to meet the demands of the agentic era. Article content 'As AI agents proliferate across data-driven applications, observability, data infrastructure, and beyond, the demand for agent-facing databases like ClickHouse has reached an inflection point. The future of analytics isn't just dashboards. It's intelligent agents that interpret data, trigger workflows, and power real-time decisions,' said Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse. 'But AI is just one driver. We designed and built ClickHouse from day one to support a broad spectrum of real-time data applications across industries, and our momentum reflects that enterprises are hungry for a platform that can keep up with their scaling ambitions.' Article content 'We invested in ClickHouse because they're solving one of the most important infrastructure challenges of this era of AI and agents: enabling real-time data platforms that can support both traditional analytics and the growing demands of AI-native workloads,' said Ethan Choi, Partner at Khosla Ventures. 'As AI reshapes every industry, the ability to deliver fast, scalable, and cost-efficient analytics is becoming foundational, ClickHouse is poised to become the default engine for next-generation intelligent data products.' Article content The market traction around ClickHouse is rooted in a fundamental shift: enterprises are no longer just building dashboards or batch reports—they are building real-time, intelligent data platforms that must serve both human and AI agents. Since AI agents can generate queries much faster and at a higher rate than human analysts, agent-facing databases must support low-latency, interactive analytical queries at an increasingly high throughput. Article content ClickHouse was designed from the ground up to meet this demand. Its high-performance, columnar storage engine enables interactive, analytical queries across massive datasets with minimal latency—perfect for powering AI and ML applications, real-time analytics, cloud data warehousing, and observability workloads. Article content Built for Speed at Scale: High-Performance Analytics Across Industries Article content Traditional databases and warehouses are struggling to keep up with this demand. Transactional databases don't scale for analytical workloads. Meanwhile, traditional data warehouses are optimized for internal, batch-heavy use cases with limited concurrency and slow performance. Finally, search-oriented technologies become prohibitively expensive for structured analytics—using 10x more in storage and compute and limiting the practical range of applications due to cost. Article content By contrast, ClickHouse offers a purpose-built solution that bridges the gap—combining high-performance analytics with the scalability and concurrency that today's intelligent, data-driven applications require. Article content ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database management system built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. Engineered for high performance, ClickHouse Cloud delivers exceptional query speed and concurrency, making it ideal for applications that demand instant insight from massive volumes of data. As AI agents become increasingly embedded in software and are generating far more frequent and complex queries, ClickHouse brings a high-throughput, low-latency engine, purpose-built to meet this challenge. Trusted by leading companies like Sony, Tesla, Anthropic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, ClickHouse helps teams unlock insights and drive smarter decisions with a scalable, efficient, and modern data platform. For more information, visit Article content Article content Article content Article content
