Ahana

What Ahana does

Ahana Cloud Inc. is a US-based, cloud-native SaaS company founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, that provides managed Presto-based analytics for open data lakehouses. The core product, Ahana Cloud, packages the open-source Presto distributed SQL query engine as a managed service, simplifying deployment, federation, and operations for enterprise data teams that want lakehouse analytics without standing up and operating Presto themselves. A free Community Edition functions as a top-of-funnel acquisition channel into the paid managed offering.

Ahana monetizes primarily through subscription-based SaaS contracts. Distribution is self-serve on AWS, with go-to-market emphasis on the open-source Presto community and developer relations. Beyond the horizontal managed Presto platform, Ahana has developed a proprietary Data Management Solution platform and a proprietary Data Model that extend its offering into data consolidation, governance, lineage, and regulatory reporting workflows. In April 2026 the company launched an RBI reporting solution for Indian co-operative banks, its first domain-specific product, designed to consolidate fragmented data across core banking, treasury, and digital channels and reduce reporting cycles from days to hours while reducing manual, spreadsheet-driven work.

The company is privately held and venture-backed, with approximately $32 million raised across seed and Series A tranches from investors including Third Point Ventures (Series A lead), GV (Google Ventures), Lux Capital, Leslie Ventures, and Liberty Global Ventures. Despite meaningful funding, the company operates with a 1-10 employee headcount, indicating either a highly capital-efficient lean structure or a significant divergence between capital raised and operational scale. Operating geographies are the United States for the core data analytics product and India for the banking-specific regulatory reporting solution.

Name

Ahana

Legal name

Ahana Cloud Inc.

Website

https://ahana.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ahana Cloud Inc. provides a managed Presto-based SaaS platform for open data lakehouse analytics, serving enterprise data teams in the United States. It has expanded with an RBI regulatory reporting solution for Indian co-operative banks, built on its proprietary Data Management Solution platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Data Analytics / Open Data Lakehouse Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Lakehouse Platforms (HDAEABAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Lake Platforms (HDAEABAC), Data Warehouse/Lakehouse Performance Optimization & Cost Management (HDAEABAL), Data & Analytics Platforms (Data Warehousing, Lakes, Streaming) (HDABAAAF)

Keywords

• Managed Presto services
• Open data lakehouse
• Cloud analytics platform
• Distributed SQL engine
• Regulatory reporting solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

San Mateo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Managed Presto Cloud Services: Paid subscription services for the managed Presto cloud platform, attracting users from the free Community Edition to paid offerings.
2. Enterprise/SaaS Subscriptions: SaaS subscription model for enterprise customers using the managed Presto platform.
3. RBI Reporting Solution for Banks: Banking-specific regulatory reporting solution targeting co-operative banks in India, addressing compliance needs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Ahana Cloud is a managed cloud service built on the open-source Presto distributed SQL query engine that simplifies deployment, operation, and scaling of open data lakehouse analytics for enterprise data teams. The company also offers a free Community Edition of the platform and a proprietary Data Management Solution platform with a custom Data Model that powers an RBI regulatory reporting solution for co-operative banks in India.

Product overview

Ahana offers a cloud-native SaaS platform for managing open data lakehouses, centered on the open-source Presto SQL query engine. The product portfolio includes Ahana Cloud (managed Presto platform), a free Community Edition, and specialized solutions built on a proprietary Data Management Solution platform. Recent expansion includes an RBI reporting solution for co-operative banks leveraging the proprietary Data Model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ahana Cloud

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced reporting cycles from days to hours
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Starburst: Starburst is the most direct competitor, offering a managed distribution of Trino (the Presto fork) for data lakehouse analytics. It targets the same enterprise data teams with a similar open-engine, multi-cloud value proposition and substantially more funding.
• Dremio: Dremio provides a lakehouse platform built around an open SQL engine (Arrow Flight + Iceberg) with strong Presto/Dremio Sonar compatibility, competing directly with Ahana in open data lakehouse query workloads.

Broad incumbents

• Databricks: Databricks is the dominant lakehouse platform built on Spark and Delta Lake, with broad overlap to Ahana's managed open-lakehouse positioning. It is a much larger incumbent with significantly more funding and product breadth.
• Snowflake: Snowflake is the largest cloud data warehouse / lakehouse vendor. While it leans proprietary formats, it increasingly overlaps with Ahana in open-table-format analytics and is a primary competitor for enterprise data team workloads.
• AWS Athena: AWS Athena is a managed Presto service bundled into the AWS ecosystem and the distribution channel Ahana currently relies on. It represents direct, in-platform competition for Ahana Cloud on the same underlying engine.
• IBM watsonx.data: IBM watsonx.data is a hybrid lakehouse platform explicitly built around Presto (alongside Spark and other engines) and positions on openness and multi-cloud, directly mirroring Ahana's value proposition from a much larger incumbent.
• Google BigQuery Omni: BigQuery Omni is Google's Presto-backed federated query engine across clouds. It competes with Ahana on multi-cloud SQL over open data, with substantially deeper integration into Google's broader AI/data stack.
• Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft's integrated data warehouse and lake platform, offering managed Spark and serverless SQL over open formats. It competes with Ahana for enterprise lakehouse workloads inside the Azure ecosystem.

Emerging players

• Upsolver: Upsolver offers a managed data lake platform for streaming and batch ingestion into Iceberg/Parquet on object storage. It overlaps with Ahana's open-lakehouse layer, particularly for customers building low-code lake pipelines.

Others

• Trino (open source): The Trino community project (formerly PrestoSQL) is the upstream fork of Presto. It is both an enabler of and a competitive threat to Ahana, since enterprises can self-host Trino without paying for a managed service.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AhanaIO
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ahana-io

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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