Databento
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Financial Services, Technology, Financial Technology |
| Founded 📆 | 2019 |
| Founder 👔 | Christina Qi |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Salt Lake City, Utah , U.S. |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | databento |
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Databento is an American financial technology company that provides market data APIs and financial data services. Databento operates as a licensed distributor for major trading venues and exchanges, like NASDAQ, NYSE, and CME, among others.[1][2][3] Founded in 2019, the company was recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2022.[4]
History
Databento was founded in February 2019 by Christina Qi.[5] Qi previously was a cofounder of Domeyard LP, a quantitative hedge fund that traded up to $7.1 billion in daily volume.[6][7] Prior to founding Domeyard, Qi worked at UBS and Goldman Sachs.[8]
The company's team includes employees with previous experience at trading firms such as Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu Financial, and Tower Research Capital.[9]
Databento launched its historical data service in April 2023 and its live data services in August 2023.[10]
In October 2024, the company raised an additional $10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total Series A round to $30 million.[11] The funding round included participation from Belvedere Trading, Clear Street, and Lightscape Partners.[12]
Products and services
Databento provides historical and real-time market data through cloud-based APIs, covering equities, futures, options, and options on futures.[13] The company operates as a licensed distributor for several major trading venues and exchanges.[1][2]
As of September 2025, the company sells data from over 60 venues and exchanges, an increase from the 40 sources they offered in 2023.[14][15]
Databento's API client libraries are usable in Python, Rust, and C++.[16][17][18]
The company hosts servers in colocation facilities with exchange servers and offers both subscription-based licensing and usage-based pricing models.[19] Databento's data is often used by customers to create trading strategies or analyze market behavior.[20]
Customers
Databento serves trading firms, hedge funds, energy trading companies, large tech companies, and academic institutions.[21][22] As of 2025, the company reported serving over 16,000 customers.[23]
Leadership
Christina Qi serves as Chief Executive Officer.[24] She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Management Science and serves on the MIT Corporation Development Committee.[6][25] Qi was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in finance in 2018.[26]
Recognition
In 2022, Databento was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.[27] The Technology Pioneers program recognizes companies using new technologies to address global challenges.[28]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Licensed Market Data Distributors - CME Group". CME Group. Archived from the original on August 1, 2025. Retrieved September 19, 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Nasdaq TotalView: Complete Market Depth Information & Trading Solutions". Nasdaq Data. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Databento Review: Is This Trading Data Platform Legit?". 2025-07-14. Archived from the original on 2025-08-13. Retrieved 2025-09-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Meet the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2022". World Economic Forum. June 2, 2025. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Christina Qi - CEO of Databento, Board of MIT". LinkedIn. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "On the Record with Christina Qi, CEO of Databento". Differential Ventures. May 21, 2024. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Hedge fund success, then a pivot with purpose | MIT Sloan". mitsloan.mit.edu. 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ Butler, Amanda (2023-09-18). "At the weekly Duke FinTech Seminar: The incredible story of a FinTech businesswoman". Duke Engineering Master's Programs. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "Databento". LinkedIn. October 31, 2024. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Databento company information, funding & investors". Dealroom.co. December 31, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Databento Closes $10 Million in Additional Funding to Drive Global Expansion". PR Newswire. October 29, 2024. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Databento Raises $10M to Expand Financial Data Platform". Silicon Valley Journals. October 29, 2024. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Databento - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees". CB Insights. October 31, 2024. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "11.15-16.23-RD-Databento | STEX". startupexchange.mit.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "Supported trading venues and exchanges | Databento". databento.com. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "databento PyPi". pypi.org. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "databento - Rust". docs.rs. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ databento/databento-cpp, Databento, Inc., 2025-09-15, retrieved 2025-09-19
- ↑ "What is Competitive Landscape of Databento Company?". Canvas Business Model. July 10, 2025. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Databento Archives". IBKR Campus US. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "11.15-16.23-RD-Databento | STEX". startupexchange.mit.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "Databento Raises $10M to Expand Financial Data Platform". Silicon Valley Journals. October 29, 2024. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Beyond the numbers: The invisible work of data reliability | Christina Qi posted on the topic | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ Alcántara, Ann-Marie (2023-03-14). "Bosses Are Catching Job Applicants Using ChatGPT for a Boost". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "Utah native Christina Qi cracks Forbes' 30 Under 30 list". Deseret News. December 31, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
- ↑ "Domeyard LP". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ↑ "Meet the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers of 2022". World Economic Forum. June 2, 2025. Archived from the original on August 28, 2025. Retrieved September 19, 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Technology Pioneers: Innovators Addressing Global Challenges". World Economic Forum. Retrieved September 19, 2025.
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