DualBird raises $17M Series A led by Lightspeed to accelerate enterprise data pipelines
The founders promise performance gains of up to 100x while cutting costs by nearly 90%.
DualBird, an Israeli startup aiming to reshape the enterprise data landscape, has raised $17 million in Series A funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, and Angular Ventures. The company, which previously raised $8 million in Seed funding, positions itself at the intersection of hardware and software, offering a cloud-native engine that delivers hardware-grade acceleration without requiring major changes to existing systems.
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Through a lightweight plug-in, DualBird claims enterprises can achieve 10 to 100 times faster performance and reduce costs by 50 to 90 percent. The funding will allow the company to expand its reach and support mission-critical workloads at scale.
The timing comes as enterprises grapple with surging compute requirements. McKinsey estimates that by 2030, keeping pace with rising demand will require nearly $7 trillion in new data center investment, with AI workloads accounting for more than three-quarters of that growth. Traditional solutions, adding GPUs, optimizing runtimes, or expanding infrastructure, offer only temporary relief and increasingly strain enterprise budgets.
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The founding team: Gilad Tal, Amir Gilad, Ehud Eliaz and Ohad Gamliel, bring deep expertise from Amazon AWS and the semiconductor industry, with three of the four co-founders combining experience in both hardware and software. The company employs 30 people in total.
“Data processing is the biggest workload still stuck on general-purpose CPUs. It deserves purpose-built processors just like AI has GPUs,” said Amir Gilad, DualBird’s co-founder and CEO. “Companies are pouring millions into data pipelines, AI data infrastructure, and analytics, but existing architecture cannot keep up.”
