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InfluxData

The platform for building and operating time series applications.

influxdata.com
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
201-500
B2B

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

InfluxData is a remote-first, privately held software company founded in 2012 that builds InfluxDB, a time-series database platform for storing, analyzing, and acting on real-time data at scale. Its portfolio now centers on InfluxDB 3 Core, InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, Telegraf Enterprise, and cloud offerings including Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB.

Primary product

InfluxDB 3 (time-series database platform)

Founded

2012

Headquarters

548 Market St, PMB 77953, San Francisco, California 94104, United States

Team size

100-150

Work style

Remote

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Time series database / real-time data infrastructure

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)

Business model

Open source
Enterprise subscription software
Usage-based cloud SaaS
Managed cloud service
Self-managed/on-prem software

Funding

Stage

Series E

Total raised

$201M

Latest round

Series E · Feb 2023

Latest amount

$51M

Debt facility

Feb 2023 · Silicon Valley Bank

$30M

Series E

Feb 2023 · Princeville Capital and Citi Ventures

$51M

Series D

Feb 2019 · Norwest Venture Partners

$60M

Series C

Feb 2018 · Sapphire Ventures

$35M

Series B

Sep 2016 · Battery Ventures

$16M

Series A

Dec 2014 · Mayfield and Trinity Ventures

$8.1M

Seed

Jun 2013

$792K

People & investors

Leadership

Evan Kaplan

Chief Executive Officer

Paul Dix

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Winnie Cheng

Chief Financial Officer

Pat Walsh

Chief Marketing Officer

Arwa Kaddoura

Chief Revenue Officer

Jeremy Freeland

Chief Legal Officer

Barbara Nelson

VP of Engineering

Gary Fowler

VP of Products

Yvette La Rue

VP of People

Founders

Todd Persen

CTO and Co-Founder

Investors

Battery Ventures
Bloomberg Beta
Citi Ventures
Harmony Partners
Mayfield Fund
Norwest Venture Partners
Princeville Capital
Sapphire Ventures
Silicon Valley Bank
Sorenson Capital
Trinity Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Remote-first and globally distributed, with values centered on valuing each other, getting stuff done, humility and learning, embracing failure, and commitment to open source.

Work style

Remote

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Public compensation signals are mixed: Levels.fyi shows reported total comp from about $12k/year (India Product Designer) to $235k/year (US Software Engineering Manager), with a reported median around $126.6k; public H-1B wage filings also show six certified LCAs in recent years, with reported wages roughly in the $140k-$200k range for engineering/product roles.

Benefits

Remote-first workplace
Flexible time off
Healthcare for employees and dependents
Office set-up budget
Learning and development budget
Annual team offsites
Mental health and physical wellness programs
401(k) and financial planning
Fertility and family-forming benefits
Flexible/remote hiring across North America, South America, and Europe

Product & market

Pricing

Free/open source for InfluxDB 3 Core; custom pricing for self-managed enterprise and single-tenant dedicated deployments; usage-based pricing for cloud serverless; AWS consumption pricing for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB; Telegraf Enterprise starts at $18,000/year.

Differentiators

  • —Purpose-built time-series engine for real-time telemetry and analytics
  • —InfluxDB 3 Core is open source under permissive licenses
  • —InfluxDB 3 Enterprise adds high availability, security, clustering, and operational tooling
  • —Built-in Python Processing Engine for in-database transformation, enrichment, and alerting
  • —High-ingest, low-latency architecture designed for billions of points and high cardinality
  • —Telegraf ecosystem with 400+ plugins and 5B+ downloads
  • —Cloud, self-managed, and AWS-managed deployment options
  • —Strong fit for observability, IoT, industrial data, and real-time AI workloads

Technology

New Relic
Salesforce
HashiCorp Vault
Postman
Zuora
Salesloft
ZoomInfo
Google Workspace
CircleCI
Google Analytics
Contentful
Terraform
MySQL
Docker
InfluxDB
GitHub
Ansible
Kubernetes
Argo CD
Elastic

Customers

Capital One
Texas Instruments
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Loft
Hulu
Seadrill
Epsilon3
LeoLabs
Expedia Group
Tesla
Red Hat
Cisco
IBM
Siemens
PayPal

Competitors

Grafana Labs
Datadog
Splunk
Timescale
QuestDB
Elastic
New Relic
Confluent
MongoDB
Kx

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$20M-$30M

Estimated monthly visits

323.3K

Traffic estimate as of May 2026

contact@influxdata.com415-295-1901

Signals & risks

Shutdown
Jul 2023

InfluxData discontinued InfluxDB Cloud in AWS Sydney and GCP Belgium after saying the regions did not have enough demand to continue; the company later acknowledged some customers lost data and said it would handle future deprecations more gracefully.

Source

Latest news

InfluxData Announces General Availability of Telegraf® Enterprise to Operate Telemetry Fleets at Scale

InfluxData · Jun 2026

Telegraf Enterprise became generally available, giving organizations centralized control over large-scale Telegraf deployments with fleet-wide visibility, security, and commercial support.

What’s New in InfluxDB 3.10: Performance Beta Expanded with New Enterprise Features

InfluxData · Jun 2026

InfluxDB 3.10 expanded the performance beta with backup/restore, row-level deletes, bulk Parquet import, RBAC preview, cross-database plugin queries, and readiness checks.

InfluxData and Litmus Partner to Power Scalable Industrial AI at the Edge

Business Wire · Apr 2026

InfluxData announced a strategic partnership with Litmus to combine InfluxDB 3 Enterprise with Litmus Edge for industrial AI and high-resolution edge-to-cloud telemetry.

tado° Optimizes Smart Thermostat Data Infrastructure with InfluxDB 3

Business Wire · Nov 2025

tado° said it uses InfluxDB 3 to power real-time data infrastructure across connected devices, processing billions of time-series records daily.

AWS and InfluxData Expand Strategic Offering with InfluxDB 3 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

Business Wire · Oct 2025

AWS and InfluxData made InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise available on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, expanding the managed AWS offering and adding read replicas and broader region coverage.

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Jobs and careers at InfluxData

3 jobs at InfluxData

Software Engineer, Database Reliability & Performance

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Engineering
Remote US; San Francisco, California, United States
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Associate Sales Engineer

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Director of Finance

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