DoltHub, Inc.
DoltHub is the company behind Dolt, the world's first version-controlled SQL database that brings Git-like functionality (branching, merging, forking) to relational data.
Founding Story
Founded in February 2018 as Liquidata, Inc., the company started in a garage with the goal of adding liquidity to the data market by creating tools for data sharing and versioning, eventually leading to the creation of Dolt.
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Leadership
Founders
Tim Sehn
CEO. Former VP of Engineering at Snap Inc. and Director at Amazon (10-year veteran).
Brian Hendriks
Software developer with 20+ years of experience. Former Engineer at Snap Inc., Rockstar Games, and Zindagi Games.
Aaron Son
Former Engineering Leader at Snap Inc. and Founder of multiple tech ventures.
Executive Team
Tim Sehn
CEO & Founder
Former VP Engineering at Snap Inc.
Brian Hendriks
Founder & Software Engineer
Former Snap Inc. and Rockstar Games engineer.
Business Model
Revenue Model
DoltHub uses an open-core model with a SaaS component. While Dolt is open-source, the company charges for private database hosting on DoltHub, managed cloud hosting, and enterprise support.
Pricing Tiers
Unlimited public databases, community support.
First 100MB free, then base fee plus storage.
Managed cloud instances, billed hourly based on size.
24/7 support, issue prioritization, and dedicated channels.
Target Markets
- Data Science Teams
- Software Developers
- Enterprise Data Architects
- Academic Researchers
- Data science and ML reproducibility
- Collaborative data collection
- Database migrations and testing
- Data sharing and distribution
- Audit-compliant data storage
- Metaflow
- Hospital Price Transparency Project contributors
- Data sharing consumers
History & Milestones
Dolt crossed 20,000 stars on GitHub.
Raised $16M in Series A funding led by Alpha Edison.
Released the first version of Dolt, a version-controlled SQL database.
Launched DoltHub, a platform for sharing and collaborating on Dolt databases.
Founded as Liquidata, Inc.
