Powering AI & Analytics at Unmatched Speed
Firebolt redefines cloud data infrastructure with sub-second latency, high concurrency, and the flexibility modern AI applications demand—without the cost or complexity of legacy data warehouses.
2019
Year founded
$270M
Funding raised
78%
Engineers
Built for Performance. Optimized for AI. Ready for Scale.
Traditional data warehouses weren’t built for today's data-intensive AI applications and modern analytics. Firebolt’s AI-first, cloud-native architecture delivers sub-second performance, high concurrency, and elastic scaling—giving organizations the speed and efficiency to handle large workloads without trade-offs.
Our values
Customer-obsessed
We're here for that look on a customer's face when they see their impossible query run - and will do everything to make it happen.
One Global Team
With employees spread across 20+ countries countries and offices in Kirkland, Munich, and Tel-Aviv, our melting pot of cultures is our proudest feature.
Transparent
We solve the most complex data challenges on a culture of trust, accountability, and total transparency.
Impact-driven
The tangiable impact of the products we develop and the relationships we build with are what drive us.
Meet our Leadership Team
Eldad Farkash
Saar Bitner
Hemanth Vedagarbha
Gali Kedar
Mosha Pasumansky
Igor Stanko
Asaph Schulman
Subha Govindarajan
Izik Orgad
Itay Link
Our leadership
Eldad Farkash
CEO & Co-Founder
Eldad Farkash is a serial entrepreneur, investor and big data thought leader. Prior to Firebolt, he founded Sisense Inc, a high growth analytics unicorn, was sitting on its board of directors and served as its CTO for 14 years. Eldad is a World Technology Awards fellow, and won the award in 2013 for his In-Chip technology invention.
Saar Bitner
COO & Co-Founder
Saar Bitner is an entrepreneur and executive with a keen understanding of analytics and big data, and more than a decade of marketing, sales, and product management experience. Prior to Firebolt, Saar was the GM at Sisense, a high growth analytics unicorn, and held multiple senior management roles in leading tech companies.
Mosha Pasumansky
CTO
Mosha Pasumansky is an experienced engineer with a passion for data processing, analytics and distributed systems. Prior to Firebolt he built OLAP systems in Microsoft SQL Server, co-invented MDX query language and contributed to Bing's distributed storage and processing. As Principal Engineer at Google, he worked on all aspects of BigQuery turning it into Google Cloud's crown jewel.
Gali Kedar
CCO
Gali has over 20 years of experience in technology leadership. Prior to Firebolt, she served as the Chief Customer Officer at Sisense, led strategic partnerships at AOL and the online threats managed services at RSA. Gali truly is customer obsessed and ensures Firebolt customers are successful with unlocking their most challenging data use cases.
Igor Stanko
CPO
Igor brings over 15 years of product management experience to Firebolt. Prior to Firebolt, Igor spent 12 years at Microsoft, where he developed database management systems for large-scale data warehousing, and led product management for the SQL data warehousing offering within Azure Synapse, shaping the product strategy and successfully growing ARR revenue to over $400 million.
Asaph Schulman
CMO
A software engineer turned to the bright side of tech – Asaph is an entrepreneur who held a wide range of marketing leadership roles. Prior to Firebolt, Asaph was one of the first team members at Checkmarx, Israel’s fastest growing cyber security company where he led the marketing team and helped grow the company’s revenue X85.
Itay Link
VP of Finance
Itay is an Israeli CPA and holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MA in Law from Bar Ilan University. Itay has over 20 years of financial leadership experience within Technology companies. Most recently, Itay was the CFO of Morphisec an Endpoint Cyber security company.
Izik Orgad
VP Engineering
Izik is an accomplished engineering manager with over 10 years of experience. Prior to Firebolt, Izik led the data team at Bitmain, where he handled real-time data recording and analytics. Izik was also a senior engineer at Jethro Data and was in charge of building high performance databases.
Subha Govindarajan
VP of People
Subha leads Strategic People Partners, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Global Employee Experience, Workplace Benefits and Resources. As an industry veteran, Subha has held executive roles with major disruptors in the database world such as Redis and Yugabyte. She brings vast experience supporting rapid growth and leading change within global startups.
Investors
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