Spiral, a data infrastructure company building for the era of AI, has raised $22 million in Seed and Series A funding.
Investors
The Series A round was led by General Catalyst, and the Seed round was led by Amplify Partners.
General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation firm that partners with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI. It supports founders with long-term vision who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond. With offices in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Berlin, Bangalore, and London, General Catalyst has backed the growth of more than 800 businesses.
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, specializing in early-stage investments in technical companies. Founded in 2012, the firm invests in companies led by technical founders in areas such as enterprise infrastructure, developer tools, AI, machine learning, and digital biology. Amplify focuses on pre-seed, seed, and Series A investments.
Spiral Use of Funds
The investment will accelerate the development of Spiral’s object-store-native database and support partnerships with enterprises across computer vision, robotics, and multimodal AI.
About Spiral
Founded by Will Manning, Rob Kruszewski, and Nick Gates, Spiral is building a new class of data systems designed for what it calls the "Third Age of Data." Powered by Vortex, an open-source file format donated to the Linux Foundation, Spiral delivers machine-scale throughput that keeps GPUs fully utilized, unified governance across all data types, and one API for everything from embeddings to video.
Funding Details
Company: Spiral
Raised: $22.0M
Round: Seed & Series A
Funding Date: September 2025
Lead Investor: General Catalyst, Amplify Partners
Company Website: https://spiraldb.com/
Software Category: Data Infrastructure / Databases / AI Data Systems
Source: https://spiraldb.com/post/announcing-spiral