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StarTree was founded by Kishore Gopalakrishna and Xiang Fu, the engineering leads who created the Apache Pinot analytics database at LinkedIn.

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StarTree: The LinkedIn Engineers Who Turned "Who Viewed My Profile" Into a Real-Time Analytics Company

StarTree was founded by Kishore Gopalakrishna and Xiang Fu, the engineering leads who created the Apache Pinot analytics database at LinkedIn. Pinot began as a fix for an expensive first version of LinkedIn's "Who Viewed My Profile" feature and grew into the engine behind almost every number LinkedIn shows its members. After Fu introduced Pinot at Uber, the pair saw a much larger market for user-facing analytics, launched StarTree with a $24 million Series A in May 2021, and raised a $47 million

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StarTree was founded by Kishore Gopalakrishna and Xiang Fu, the engineering leads who created the Apache Pinot analytics database at LinkedIn. Pinot began as a fix for an expensive first version of LinkedIn's "Who Viewed My Profile" feature and grew into the engine behind almost every number LinkedIn shows its members. After Fu introduced Pinot at Uber, the pair saw a much larger market for user-facing analytics, launched StarTree with a $24 million Series A in May 2021, and raised a $47 million Series B led by GGV Capital in August 2022.

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