DataFusion

Name

DataFusion

Website

https://datafusiongroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DataFusion is a privately held, San Mateo-based IT consulting firm (founded 2017, 11-50 employees) that provides data strategy, analytics, and consulting services to enterprises, with stated alignment to Apache Arrow-native data storage and query technologies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Consulting and Data Analytics Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services (BPAEAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Platforms & Modern Data Stack Services (Lakehouse, DW, MDM) (BPAEAHAC), Cloud Data Platforms & Analytics Migration (BPAEACAI), Data Platform (Unified Data & Analytics) Suites (HDAEABAD)

Keywords

• Data strategy consulting
• Data analytics services
• Enterprise IT consulting
• Arrow-native data processing
• Business intelligence consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

San Mateo

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel

Core offering

DataFusion is an Information Technology firm that provides data strategy, analytics, and consulting services to enterprises. The firm is associated with Apache Arrow-native data storage and query engine technologies as its core technology stack.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Data Strategy and Analytics Consulting Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Apache DataFusioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 February 2026Apache DataFusion community members contributed to the development of geospatial support in Lance (an Arrow-native data storage format). Contributors from ByteDance, Uber, Apache DataFusion, and GeoArrow communities worked together organically to deliver the R-Tree spatial index functionality enabling spatial queries like ST_Intersects and ST_Distance.

Broad incumbents

• dbt Labs: dbt Labs standardizes the analytics engineering layer that sits on top of warehouses and Arrow-native engines. It is an incumbent in the data transformation and consulting workflow that DataFusion's services would target.
• Fivetran: Fivetran is the leading managed data integration / ETL platform. It competes for the same enterprise data pipeline modernization budgets that drive consulting engagements of the type DataFusion targets.
• Databricks: Databricks is the dominant data lakehouse platform (Spark + Delta Lake) and the largest systems-integrator-friendly incumbent. It competes for the same enterprise data strategy, analytics, and data engineering consulting engagements.
• Snowflake: Snowflake is the leading cloud data warehouse / platform incumbent. Enterprises seeking 'data strategy and analytics' services typically do so in the context of Snowflake (or competitor) deployments, putting it directly in DataFusion's competitive set.

Emerging players

• Rill Data: Rill Data builds an Apache Arrow-native BI / metrics layer and is a significant commercial user and contributor to Apache DataFusion. It overlaps directly with DataFusion's Arrow-native data engine specialization, but at the application/BI layer rather than services.
• Mage.ai: Mage is an open-source data pipeline tool that integrates with modern data stacks and Python. It overlaps with DataFusion's positioning around modern, open-source-friendly data engineering for enterprises.
• Ascend.io: Ascend.io offers a data engineering automation platform focused on pipeline orchestration and ELT. It is comparable as a peer in the data engineering services and tooling space DataFusion operates in.
• Coiled: Coiled provides managed Dask and PyData-scale compute, with deep roots in the open-source Python data stack. It is comparable as a small, technically deep, Arrow-adjacent data engineering player.

Direct peers

• Starburst: Starburst commercializes the Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) distributed query engine, a direct counterpart to Apache DataFusion in the high-performance SQL-on-data-lake space. It competes for the same enterprise data engineering and analytics consulting dollars.
• Voltron Data: Voltron Data is the principal commercial steward of the Apache Arrow ecosystem and develops Arrow-native analytical engines (including work derived from Apache DataFusion). It is the closest commercial peer to a firm specializing in Apache Arrow-native data storage and query technologies.

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Investors

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Investments

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