Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
CData Software is a privately held data-connectivity and integration company headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Its platform provides live connectivity, replication, data virtualization, embedded connectivity, and governed access to enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and AI systems. CData says it serves more than 10,000 customers and powers data workloads for companies including Databricks, Microsoft, Google, Palantir, Salesforce, Office Depot, and Holiday Inn.
Primary product
CData data connectivity platform, centered on CData Connect AI, CData Sync, CData Drivers, CData Embed, CData Arc, CData API Server, and CData DBAmp.
Founded
2014
Headquarters
101 Europa Drive, Suite 110, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517, United States
Team size
500+ employees; public estimates vary from approximately 393 to more than 500
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software development
Sub-industry
Data integration, data connectivity, data virtualization, enterprise AI infrastructure, and developer tools
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage growth / private equity-backed
Total raised
$510M
Latest round
Approximately $350 million strategic growth financing, described by market databases as Series C or a venture/growth round; a separate debt component was also reported but not disclosed · Jun 2024
Latest amount
$350M
Strategic growth financing / Series C-equivalent
Jun 2024 · Warburg Pincus
Dec 2021 · Updata Partners
Mar 2020 · Updata Partners
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Chief Architect
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Human Resources Officer
Chief Information Security Officer
Christin Coan
General Counsel
Senior Vice President, Cloud
Marie Forshaw
Senior Vice President, Product Marketing
Meera Ramachandran
Senior Vice President, Global Operations
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data Platform
Senior Vice President, Embedded Sales
Managing Director, India
CData describes its culture as collaborative, growth-oriented, empowering, fast-paced, and technology-focused. The company emphasizes professional development, wellness, work-life balance, curiosity, innovation, transparent leadership, and a high-trust remote-friendly environment. Public job postings also describe customer-facing, highly autonomous engineering work with travel of up to 25% for some roles.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public US job postings provide meaningful compensation signals. A Forward Deployed Engineer role listed a typical base salary of $150,000-$175,000, while a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer role listed $175,000-$240,000. Both postings stated that CData does not provide US visa sponsorship. Benefits include company-paid insurance, PTO, holidays, and a 401(k) match. Broader compensation is likely role- and geography-dependent, and company-wide salary bands are not publicly available.
Benefits
Pricing
Product-specific subscription and licensing. CData Sync publishes standard pricing of $7,999 per year for up to five standard connections and 100 million processed rows per month, with custom quotes for larger configurations. Cloud versions can use hourly or usage-based pricing, while Connect AI publishes per-user and per-data-source plans. Drivers and embedded products generally use annual subscription, deployment-based, or negotiated enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $70 million-$100 million annually. Exa lists an estimated $70 million annual revenue, while Reuters reported that CData expected approximately $100 million in ARR by the end of 2024. These are third-party or company-reported estimates rather than audited financial statements.
Estimated monthly visits
135.6K
Traffic estimate as of Feb 2026
CData acquired Data Virtuality, a Germany-based data integration and virtualization company. The acquisition expanded CData's enterprise data virtualization capabilities and geographic footprint. Integration of an acquired product and team is a material execution consideration, although the announcement framed the deal as strategically complementary.
SourceCData raised approximately $350 million in growth capital in a transaction involving primary and secondary equity, with a separate undisclosed debt component reported by TechCrunch. The financing reportedly valued the company at more than $800 million post-money, according to Reuters and TechCrunch. The transaction materially increased institutional ownership and investor expectations.
SourceCData Software · May 2026
CData announced Raviv Levi as Chief Product and Technology Officer and announced additional AI architecture and embedded-sales leadership appointments, reflecting a stronger focus on enterprise AI, governed data access, and agent workflows.
SiliconANGLE · Jun 2025
The companies announced a relationship to embed CData connectivity across Palantir's analytics and AI platforms. The article also reported that CData had raised $510 million and had sustained 30%-40% annual revenue growth for several years.
PR Newswire / CData Software · Apr 2025
CData launched Embedded Cloud for software vendors and reported continued expansion of its connector portfolio, including identity and Salesforce Data Cloud connectivity. The announcement also described increased investment in embedded customer success and support.
CData Software · Jun 2024
Warburg Pincus led a roughly $350 million growth financing with participation from Accel. Existing investor Updata Partners remained a significant investor. CData said the capital would support product, operations, and go-to-market investment.
CData Software · Apr 2024
CData acquired Data Virtuality to add enterprise-grade data virtualization and strengthen its ability to provide both live data access and replication across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
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