definity, a Chicago-based agentic data engineering platform for the lakehouse and Spark ecosystem, has raised $12 million in a Series A round.
Investors
The round was led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Dynatrace, StageOne Ventures, and Hyde Park Venture Partners.
GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that invests in high-impact, technically complex startups across sectors such as healthcare, enterprise software, AI, and sustainability. Founded in 2015 by experienced entrepreneurs, the firm focuses on Seed through Series B investments, often leading Series A rounds while maintaining a hands-on, operator-driven approach.
definity Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to advance its agentic data engineering capabilities, expand integrations across data ecosystems, and scale go-to-market operations.
About definity
Led by CEO Roy Daniel, definity is an agentic data engineering platform designed to optimize and autonomously operate enterprise data pipelines. Its solution focuses on lakehouse and Spark environments, providing real-time runtime intelligence that enables AI agents to monitor, analyze, and take action within production systems. The platform supports major environments such as Databricks, AWS EMR, and Google Cloud Dataproc. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Definity is on a mission to reinvent how data engineering teams build, operate, and evolve data pipelines and platforms at scale.
Funding Details
Company: definity
Raised: $12.0M
Round: Series A
Funding Date: April 2026
Lead Investor: GreatPoint Ventures
Additional Investors: Dynatrace, StageOne Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners
Company Website: https://www.definity.ai/
Software Category: Data Engineering / AI Data Infrastructure
Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/definity-unveils-agentic-data-engineering-platform-with-12m-series-a-302757245.html