Imply: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, provides a complete real-time analytics platform based on Apache Druid. Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows. Apache Druid, an open-source database created by Imply's founders, enables next-generation real-time analytics solutions. Druid is widely adopted for analyzing user activity data, digital media logs, network flows, server metrics, application logs, and many other types of event-driven, streaming data. Druid is used in production by the world's largest and most innovative companies. Imply is originating and leading a new category of data analytics focused on analytics-in-motion. With analytics-in-motion, organizations can move away from analytics solutions that are static, difficult to scale, delayed, and expensive and towards analytics solutions that are interactive, highly scalable, real-time, and cost-effective. Leading organizations worldwide leverage Imply as the engine for analytics-powered applications that they build, and/or as a complete solution to directly solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases. Imply has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and is backed by A16Z, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Khosla Ventures, and Geodesic Capital.
Imply has raised $170M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series D of $100M announced in May 2022.
That round is above the $5.2M median round size for Data and Analytics companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.
Imply Company Profile and Key Stats
Latest funding round on record: May 2022.
Imply Funding Rounds
Imply raised $70.0M in an undisclosed round announced in Jun 2021.
11 months later, a Series D of $100M was announced in May 2022.
Imply Founders and Leadership Team
Contact details for the Imply team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.
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Imply's latest round of $100M is above the median round in Data and Analytics. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.
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Imply Funding FAQs
What does Imply do?
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, provides a complete real-time analytics platform based on Apache Druid. Imply is a multi-cloud data platform designed to deliver real-time ingestion and visualizations for event-driven and streaming data flows. Apache Druid, an open-source database created by Imply's founders, enables next-generation real-time analytics solutions. Druid is widely adopted for analyzing user activity data, digital media logs, network flows, server metrics, application logs, and many other types of event-driven, streaming data. Druid is used in production by the world's largest and most innovative companies. Imply is originating and leading a new category of data analytics focused on analytics-in-motion. With analytics-in-motion, organizations can move away from analytics solutions that are static, difficult to scale, delayed, and expensive and towards analytics solutions that are interactive, highly scalable, real-time, and cost-effective. Leading organizations worldwide leverage Imply as the engine for analytics-powered applications that they build, and/or as a complete solution to directly solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases. Imply has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and is backed by A16Z, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Khosla Ventures, and Geodesic Capital.
How much funding has Imply raised?
Imply has raised $170M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series D of $100M announced in May 2022.
When did Imply last raise funding?
Imply's most recent funding round on record is a Series D of $100M, announced in May 2022.
Who is the CEO of Imply?
Fangjin Yang is listed as CEO at Imply.
Where is Imply headquartered?
Imply is based in Burlingame, California, United States.
How many employees does Imply have?
Imply is in the 101-250 employee band.
How does Imply's funding compare to other Data and Analytics startups?
Imply's latest round of $100M is above the $5.2M median round size for Data and Analytics companies on FundedIQ across 1,842 tracked companies over the last two years.
About FundedIQ's Imply Funding Data
FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.
Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Imply is left off this page rather than filled in.
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