Dataiku
Paris-founded, New York-headquartered enterprise AI platform created in 2013 by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol and Marc Batty. Its 'Everyday AI' platform survived a 2022 down round without layoffs and pivoted into the generative era with the 2023 LLM Mesh.
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- Location
- New York, New York, United States
- Country
- United States
- Known for
- Enterprise AI and data-science platform built on the 'Everyday AI' thesis — data science for non-specialists as well as experts
- Founded
- 2013 in Paris, France; French business registry creation announced 24 February 2013 (RCS Paris 791 012 081)
- Founders
- Florian Douetteau (president), Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol (deputy CEOs), Clément Stenac — per the founding French registry record
- Headquarters arc
- Founded in Paris; US presence established in New York City in 2015; registry records show the US entity (Delaware) installed as president of the French company in 2016
- Valuation arc
- $1.4 billion (2019) to $4.6 billion (2021), then $3.7 billion in a 2022 down round
- Scale
- 500+ companies including 150+ of the world's largest enterprises; $150 million in ARR first revealed in 2022
- Generative AI move
- Launched the LLM Mesh in September 2023 with Snowflake, Pinecone and AI21 Labs as launch partners
Overview
Dataiku is the enterprise AI platform that spent a decade making data science accessible to non-specialists before the generative-AI boom made that idea fashionable. Founded in Paris in 2013 and re-centered on New York, it sells an end-to-end platform for designing, deploying and managing AI and analytics applications, pitched explicitly at “democratizing AI” — letting analysts and business users build predictive models and draw insights from unstructured data without depending on a team of data scientists (VentureBeat; TechCrunch). It reached a $4.6 billion valuation in 2021, took a down round to $3.7 billion in 2022 without the layoffs that hit rivals, and in 2023 pivoted into the generative era with the LLM Mesh — a governance backbone for enterprise large-language-model applications (TechCrunch; DBTA).
A Paris founding, documented in the registry
Unlike most startup origin stories, Dataiku’s founding is a matter of public record. The French business registry’s creation announcement of 24 February 2013 (RCS Paris 791 012 081) lists the company at 39 rue Sedaine, Paris, with a four-person founding administration: Florian Douetteau as president, Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol as deputy chief executives, and Clément Stenac as a member of the direction committee (Pappers/Bodacc). Douetteau is the co-founder and CEO who stayed with the company; Stenac became its chief technology officer (Global Corporate Venturing; DBTA).
The transatlantic arc is also in the registry. Dataiku established its US presence in New York City in 2015; that March, the four founders left the French entity’s direction committee, and in December 2016 the record installs DATAIKU INC., a Delaware company, as president of the French company — the formal re-centering on the United States (Pappers/Bodacc). Batty and Cabrol later left the French entity’s administration in 2020 (Pappers/Bodacc). The early product philosophy was democratization by design: a visual interface over data preparation, modeling and deployment, with connectors to sources from Amazon S3 to Snowflake, so that business users could participate in work previously reserved for data scientists (VentureBeat).
The funding arc: unicorn, peak, down round
Dataiku’s financing traces the enterprise-AI cycle. After early rounds — $28 million Series B led by Battery Ventures in 2017, $101 million Series C led by ICONIQ Capital in late 2018 — Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG bought shares from Serena Capital in a December 2019 secondary transaction at a $1.4 billion valuation, making Dataiku a unicorn (Global Corporate Venturing). A $100 million Series D led by Stripes followed in August 2020, with Tiger Global, Battery, Dawn, FirstMark, Iconiq and CapitalG participating, the valuation remaining above $1 billion (Global Corporate Venturing).
The peak came in August 2021: $400 million in Series E led by Tiger Global at a $4.6 billion valuation, with Google’s CapitalG, Snowflake Ventures, Insight Partners, Iconiq Growth, Battery Ventures and FirstMark Capital participating, and enterprise clients including Unilever, Westpac, OVH, NXP, Merck and Ubisoft (VentureBeat). Then the macro turn: in December 2022 Dataiku raised $200 million in Series F led by Wellington Management at a $3.7 billion valuation, down from $4.6 billion — an SEC filing showed it could close up to $275 million, bringing total raised to roughly $600 million (TechCrunch). Notably, Dataiku avoided the major layoffs that hit competitors such as DataRobot, revealed $150 million in ARR for the first time, and hired CFO Adam Towns — a hire that fueled IPO speculation, though the Series F suggested a listing was “a ways off” (TechCrunch).
The LLM Mesh pivot
Dataiku’s second act began at its Everyday AI Conference in New York in September 2023, when it unveiled the LLM Mesh: a “common backbone” sitting between large-language-model providers and end-user applications, offering universal AI service routing, secure access and auditing, private-data screening and response moderation, and performance and cost tracking — designed to let enterprises deploy generative AI with governance rather than ad hoc experiments (DBTA). Snowflake, Pinecone and AI21 Labs joined as launch partners, contributing containerized data and compute, vector databases and LLM builders; features entered public and private preview that October (DBTA). CTO and co-founder Clément Stenac framed it as bridging “the promise and reality of using Generative AI in the enterprise” (DBTA). By the end of 2022 the customer base stood at over 500 companies, including more than 150 of the world’s largest enterprises, using the platform for predictive maintenance, supply-chain optimization, quality control and marketing optimization, per co-founder and CEO Douetteau (TechCrunch).
What this profile does not claim
This profile does not recount the founders’ pre-Dataiku careers (Exalead, IsCool, Criteo, VLC/Debian, ENS) — those appear on Wikipedia and tier3 bio pages but could not be verified from independently read tier1/tier2 sources. It states only the $150 million ARR figure Dataiku revealed in 2022; later revenue figures circulating elsewhere were not independently verified from a read source. It does not say what roles, if any, Batty and Cabrol retain after their 2020 departure from the French entity’s administration — the registry records only the departure. It does not assert finer legal mechanics of the headquarters transition beyond what the registry and TechCrunch document. And it does not project an IPO: the CFO hire fueled speculation, but the company has not announced one.
Timeline
- 2013
- Dataiku is created in Paris. The French business registry's creation announcement (24 February 2013, RCS Paris 791 012 081, 39 rue Sedaine) names the founding administration: Florian Douetteau as president, Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol as deputy chief executives, and Clément Stenac as a member of the direction committee.
- 2015
- Dataiku establishes itself in the United States in New York City. The French registry records the four founders leaving the French entity's direction committee in March 2015, marking the corporate re-centering on the US.
- 2019
- CapitalG — the growth fund backed by Alphabet — buys shares from Serena Capital in a secondary transaction valuing Dataiku at $1.4 billion, making it a unicorn, after about $146 million in earlier equity financing.
- 2020
- Dataiku raises $100 million in a Series D led by Stripes with Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital, FirstMark Capital, Iconiq Capital and CapitalG; the valuation remains above $1 billion.
- 2021
- Dataiku raises $400 million in a Series E led by Tiger Global at a $4.6 billion valuation, with CapitalG, Snowflake Ventures, Insight Partners, Iconiq Growth, Battery Ventures and FirstMark participating — while rivals Databricks and DataRobot raise at $28 billion and $6.3 billion respectively.
- 2022
- Dataiku raises $200 million in a Series F led by Wellington Management at a $3.7 billion valuation — down from $4.6 billion — as macro headwinds cool AI funding; unlike rivals such as DataRobot it avoids major layoffs. It reveals $150 million in ARR for the first time and hires CFO Adam Towns, fueling IPO speculation.
- 2023
- At its Everyday AI Conference in New York in September, Dataiku unveils the LLM Mesh — a backbone for building safe, governed generative-AI applications in the enterprise — with Snowflake, Pinecone and AI21 Labs as launch partners; CTO and co-founder Clément Stenac presents it as bridging "the promise and reality" of enterprise GenAI.
What we could not verify
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- The founders' pre-Dataiku careers (Exalead, IsCool, Criteo, VLC/Debian, ENS) could not be verified from independently read tier1/tier2 sources, so they are not asserted.
- Post-2022 revenue figures cited elsewhere were not independently verified from a read source, so only the 2022 $150M ARR figure is stated.
- Whether Batty and Cabrol retain any role after their 2020 registry departure is unresolved; only the registry fact is stated.
- Finer legal mechanics of the Paris-to-New-York headquarters transition beyond the registry records are not asserted.
Sources
5 sources (1 tier 1, 4 tier 2), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Every source is independent of the subject; no first-party material is cited. See the source policy.
No first-party sources were used. The founding facts rest on the French government's business registry via Pappers (creation announcement and administration changes); the funding arc on TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Global Corporate Venturing; the LLM Mesh pivot on DBTA trade press. Wikipedia was used only as a lead index, never cited.
- Supports: Creation announced 24/02/2013, RCS Paris 791 012 081, 39 rue Sedaine; founding administration (Douetteau president; Batty, Cabrol deputy CEOs; Stenac committee member); March 2015 departures from direction committee; Dec 2016 installation of DATAIKU INC. (Delaware) as president; Batty and Cabrol leaving administration in 2020 Open original source
- Supports: Series F $200M led by Wellington at $3.7B (down from $4.6B); SEC filing up to $275M; total raised ~$600M; $150M ARR first revealed; CFO Adam Towns and IPO speculation; avoided major layoffs unlike DataRobot; 500+ customers incl. 150+ largest enterprises; founded Paris 2013; Dataiku Online managed edition Open original source
- Supports: Series E $400M at $4.6B led by Tiger Global; CapitalG (Alphabet), Snowflake Ventures, Insight, Iconiq Growth, Battery, FirstMark; platform description and connectors; clients Unilever, Westpac, OVH, NXP, Merck, Ubisoft; Dataiku Online $499/mo; ~$250M prior raised, $100M Series D Open original source
- Supports: Series D $100M led by Stripes with Tiger Global, Battery, Dawn, FirstMark, Iconiq, CapitalG; valuation above $1B; CapitalG secondary Dec 2019 at $1.4B after $146M earlier financing; Series C $101M ICONIQ late 2018; Series B $28M Battery 2017; Douetteau = co-founder and CEO Open original source
- Supports: LLM Mesh unveiled Sept 2023 at Everyday AI Conference NYC; launch partners Snowflake, Pinecone, AI21 Labs; CTO/co-founder Clément Stenac quote; components (routing, access/auditing, safety, cost tracking); previews from October 2023 Open original source
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