Spiral
Spiral provides a machine‑scale data platform built for the most demanding workloads and ambitious teams, enabling optimal performance for AI training, analytics, and advanced data pipelines.
At a Glance
- Frontier AI Labs
- Enterprise Data Teams
- Generative AI Developers
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ML Pretraining Data Warehouse
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Products & Services
An AI-native database providing real-time multimodal data access, GPU-saturating throughput, and unified permissioning.
An open columnar file format designed for high-performance AI and analytics workloads, delivering up to 200x faster random-access reads.
Market Position
Spiral positions itself as the 'Third Age of Data' infrastructure, specifically built for AI/GPU workloads rather than retrofitting traditional analytics warehouses.
Leadership
Founders
Will Manning
CEO & Co-founder. Former Development Group Lead & Chief Architect at Palantir Technologies where he co-created Palantir Foundry. Also worked at BlackRock and Citadel.
Robert Kruszewski
Co-founder & President. Former engineer at Palantir and Citadel. Based in London.
Nick Gates
Co-founder. Former engineer at Palantir. Based in London.
Executive Team
Will Manning
Founder & CEO
Ex-Palantir Chief Architect and Foundry co-creator.
Robert Kruszewski
Co-founder & President
Ex-Palantir and Citadel software engineer.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Spiral was founded to reimagine the modern data stack for the AI era. The founders, who previously built large-scale infrastructure at Palantir and Citadel, created Spiral to address the bottlenecks in data throughput for AI training. The company started with the development of Vortex, an open columnar file format designed for high-throughput GPU workloads.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Likely usage-based or subscription-based data platform services (API/Storage).
Target Markets
- Frontier AI Labs
- Enterprise Data Teams
- Generative AI Developers
- Frontier AI training pipelines
- Multimodal data management
- High-performance analytics for machine learning
- Real-time data access for AI models
- Supported by individuals/organizations from Microsoft, Snowflake, and Palantir.