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Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at scale
Tessell, a startup that is revolutionizing the way companies manage and store their data, has announced a massive $60 million in funding. The company’s innovative approach to database-as-a-service has garnered significant attention from investors, with WestBridge Capital leading the round.
According to reports, Tessell aims to use this new capital to expand its market presence and launch an AI-powered conversational database management service. This comes at a critical time, as companies are struggling to manage their data efficiently due to rigid legacy database solutions and costly managed database services.
As reported by TechCrunch, Tessell’s platform has been designed from the ground up with decades of database kernel experience from its co-founders. By leveraging this expertise, the company is able to offer enhanced operational database management that takes on existing relational database services like Amazon’s RDS.
In an exclusive interview with TechCruch, co-founder and CEO Bala Kuchibhotla emphasized Tessell’s unique value proposition: “Tessell is a tessellation of enterprise data.” Kuchibhotla, who spent over a decade at Oracle and four years at Nutanix, saw an opportunity to reimagine operational data management after analyzing the problems companies face with existing database management services.
With this new funding, Tessell aims to deliver 10x the performance of existing database management services, while also providing a 64-73% reduction in total cost of ownership over three years. This is made possible by its NVMe infrastructure, which does away with industry-standard input-output operations per second (IOPS) metering and provides high IOPS and low latency, along with predictable pricing.
Tessell’s innovative approach also ensures zero downtime on migrations and keeps databases running even if one cloud service goes down. The company claims to be compatible with all four major cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud, in addition to supporting leading database engines like MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
What’s more, Tessell’s platform can spin up or down databases as needed for AI applications. This means developers can easily scale their data infrastructure without worrying about the complexity of traditional databases.
The company plans to use this new funding to develop its AI-powered conversational database management service. With this technology, companies will be able to have a simple and intuitive conversation with Tessell’s platform to manage their data, rather than relying on complex coding or IT teams.
With this significant investment, Tessell will also expand its market reach into the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, enhance its go-to-market strategy in the U.S. and India markets, while investing more in research and development to further strengthen its services.
The company has already gained a strong foothold in the industry with an impressive 40 customers, including notable companies like Moody’s, Aditya Birla Capital, Tata Capital, Jubiliant Ingrevia, and Forbes.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/tessell-snags-60m-to-drive-data-management-at-scale/
