Ambar

What Ambar does

Ambar is a London-based, privately held, VC-backed technology company (Ambar Cloud Ltd., UK company number 14667839) operating from 124-128 City Road, London. Founded in 2021 by a small team of 1-10 led by Founder & CEO Luis P Galeas and Founding Engineer Tom Schutte (ex-AWS), alongside other veterans from Amazon and Facebook, the company sells two related offerings to enterprise buyers. The first is Ambar Streaming, a managed cloud data streaming service that pulls records from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases (via binary log and logical replication, respectively) and pushes filtered streams to customer HTTP endpoints with end-to-end correctness guarantees — exactly-once delivery, ordering, 99.99% availability, nine 9s of durability, sub-25ms latency, and infinite retention. The service is configured via REST API or a Terraform provider published in the HashiCorp registry.

In February 2025, Ambar expanded into enterprise application development, leveraging its streaming foundation plus a proprietary type system and customized LLM pipelines executed by ex-Amazon and ex-Facebook engineers to deliver complete enterprise applications in 4 weeks or less. The application development service is priced comparably to a junior developer with "elite engineering" quality, on multi-year contracts with no upfront fees. The company also maintains open-source developer tooling including PGT-Proxy, a PostgreSQL TLS proxy released in September 2024. Target customers span financial services, fintech, e-commerce, logistics, healthcare, and platform engineering teams; no specific customer logos or revenue figures are publicly disclosed.

Commercially, Ambar operates a hybrid motion: sales-led for the enterprise application development service (30-minute response commitment, direct contact forms) and self-serve/API-first for the streaming product (portal signup, API keys organized by environment and region). Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company is founder-controlled, with no disclosed investors by name and no public funding history.

Name

Ambar

Legal name

Ambar Cloud Ltd.

Website

https://ambar.cloud

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ambar is a London-based, VC-backed technology company offering a managed data streaming service for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and delivering custom enterprise applications in 4 weeks using AI-assisted engineering teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Application Development Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) & Message-Oriented Middleware (HDAEACAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Application Integration & API/Middleware Services (BPAEAAAF), ESB & Enterprise Messaging Middleware (HDAEAIAC)

Keywords

• Real-time data streaming
• Change data capture
• Enterprise application development
• Event-driven architecture
• Managed streaming platform

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Application Development Services: Ambar builds complete enterprise software applications for clients in 4 weeks or less using a combination of human expert engineers and AI-assisted code generation. Applications are delivered with quality matching top engineering teams. The company positions this as 'at the price of a junior developer' but with elite engineering quality.
2. Data Streaming Platform (Subscription): Ambar's underlying data streaming infrastructure is available as a managed cloud service. Customers configure data sources (MySQL, PostgreSQL), filters, and data destinations via API or Terraform provider. The service provides 99.99% availability, nine 9s of durability, sub-25ms latency, and infinite retention as managed capabilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Ambar delivers enterprise software applications in four weeks or less using a team of ex-Amazon and ex-Facebook engineers working with customized LLM pipelines, priced at the cost of a junior developer. The applications are built on Ambar's proprietary data streaming infrastructure, which pulls records from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases via change data capture and pushes them to HTTP endpoints with end-to-end exactly-once delivery, ordering, and durability guarantees as a managed service.

Product overview

Ambar offers two distinct service layers: (1) Ambar Streaming - a data streaming infrastructure service that pulls records from MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and pushes them to HTTP endpoints with end-to-end correctness guarantees, adaptive load balancing, and infinite retention; (2) Enterprise Application Development - a service leveraging the streaming foundation plus a proprietary type system and customized LLM pipelines to deliver complete enterprise applications in 4 weeks. The product portfolio also includes PGT-Proxy (open-source PostgreSQL TLS proxy), a Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code management, and an OpenAPI specification for custom SDK generation. The company was founded by ex-Amazon and ex-Facebook engineers and operates as a UK-registered company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PGT-Proxy: Open-source PostgreSQL TLS proxy that simplifies secure connections between TLS-enabled PostgreSQL clients and servers. Built on Rust, available as Docker image or binary.

Products and services

• Ambar Streaming Managed data streaming platform that uses change data capture from MySQL binary logs and PostgreSQL logical replication to deliver records to application HTTP endpoints with exactly-once semantics, ordering guarantees, sub-25ms latency, adaptive throughput, and infinite retention.
• Enterprise Application Development Full-service application development offering that delivers complete enterprise web, data, and mobile applications in 4 weeks or less, leveraging Ambar's streaming infrastructure, a custom type system, and human-AI partnership. Priced at junior developer cost with elite engineering quality.
• PGT-Proxy Open-source PostgreSQL TLS proxy that simplifies secure database connectivity, supporting custom certificate authorities and full TLS verification. Built on Rust and distributed as Docker image or binary for developers and platform teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• Applications traditionally taking 9-12 months are completed in 4 weeks or less
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability2 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Confluent: Confluent is the leading managed Apache Kafka platform, offering exactly-once semantics, stream processing (ksqlDB), and enterprise connectors. It is the most direct competitor to Ambar Streaming on the data streaming/middleware layer.
• Estuary Flow: Estuary Flow provides real-time, exactly-once CDC data streaming from databases to destinations, similar to Ambar's pull-from-database, push-to-endpoint model. Targets the same developer persona seeking managed streaming without Kafka complexity.
• Decodable: Decodable offers a managed platform for building real-time data pipelines with exactly-once semantics on Apache Flink/Pulsar, competing head-on with Ambar in the developer-friendly streaming category.
• Materialize: Materialize delivers a streaming SQL database built on incremental view maintenance with strong consistency guarantees, comparable to Ambar's positioning around correctness guarantees for real-time data.
• Builder.ai: Builder.ai combines AI with human engineers to deliver custom software applications faster and cheaper than traditional development, mirroring Ambar's 4-week enterprise application development service with AI-augmented delivery.

Broad incumbents

• AWS Kinesis / Amazon MSK: Amazon's managed streaming services (Kinesis Data Streams, MSK for Kafka) are the broad incumbent alternatives to Ambar Streaming, with deep integration into the AWS ecosystem and overwhelming enterprise mindshare.
• Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Google's globally managed messaging and streaming service competes with Ambar for real-time event ingestion and delivery, particularly in customers standardizing on GCP.
• Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that builds custom enterprise software with senior engineering talent, comparable to Ambar's application development service aimed at CTOs needing fast delivery.

Emerging players

• Debezium: Debezium is the open-source standard for CDC from MySQL and PostgreSQL into Kafka, occupying the same source-side technology niche as Ambar's MySQL binary log and PostgreSQL logical replication integrations.
• Inngest: Inngest provides a durable event-driven orchestration and streaming platform for developers building serverless workflows, overlapping with Ambar's positioning around simplified event-driven application infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/ambarltd
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ambar-cloud

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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