SereneDB Secures $2.1M Pre-Seed Funding

SereneDB Secures $2.1M Pre-Seed Funding to Challenge the Status Quo of Search and Analytics

Berlin-based database startup SereneDB has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round from venture funds Entourage and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).
The company is challenging the status quo in analytics by building a real-time search & OLAP database to power modern analytical and AI applications.
Committed to an open-source development approach, this investment will allow SereneDB to set a new industry standard, empowering data enthusiasts and businesses with faster, deeper, real-time data understanding.

[BERLIN, December 3] The database startup SereneDB has closed its pre-seed funding round, raising $2.1 million. The round was led by venture funds Entourage and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).

The team is leveraging its expertise from creating the world’s fastest enterprise grade C++ search library to build the engine for next-generation data applications. The company will use the investment to pursue its core mission: building a dedicated database for real-time search and analytics, redefining current industry standards.

Most search and analytics tools were built to find single, static items, not to analyze fast-changing, complex data. They struggle with real-time updates and deletions and they force teams to stitch together searches, caches and dashboards. The result is slow answers, brittle pipelines and insights that arrive out of date.

SereneDB brings live data and deep analysis into one system. It fuses a powerful and versatile search engine with modern OLAP execution under the standard PostgreSQL umbrella, handles real-time ingestion with correct updates and deletes, and returns complex results in milliseconds. While people and AI agents can ask better questions on most recent data, companies reduce tooling, cost and operational risk by using simple and standardized SQL tools and APIs.

This funding advances SereneDB’s commitment to open-source development, giving the data community a voice in shaping the technology while benefiting fairly from its progress. By enabling trustworthy, real-time insights at any point in the data life cycle, SereneDB aims to set a new practical standard for modern analytics.

About SereneDB

SereneDB is a German company founded in 2025 by Alexander Malandin, Andrey Abramov and Valery Mironov. SereneDB is building the open-sourced distributed, real-time search database bringing search and analytical processing together for fast performance and eliminating data duplication. SereneDB’s mission is to provide an easy-to-use uniﬁed search and analytics solution to change the way applications store and retrieve their data.

For more information, visit www.serenedb.com, check the GitHub repository or follow SereneDB on LinkedIn.

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SereneDB
Alexander Malandin, CEO
alexander@serenedb.com

About HTGF - High-Tech Gründerfonds

HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing startups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, KfW Capital as well as 45 companies and family offices.

For more information, please visit HTGF.de or follow us on LinkedIn.

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High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH
Tobias Jacob, Senior Marketing & Communications Manager
t.jacob@htgf.de

About Entourage

Entourage is an early-stage investment fund founded by Pieterjan Bouten (co-founder of Showpad). It is dedicated to building and funding the next generation of B2B SaaS companies that drive enterprise growth and digital transformation.

Its portfolio includes Aikido (cybersecurity), Lexroom (legal tech), and Conveo (market research).

Entourage is backed by a network of highly successful (unicorn) SaaS founders, including Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Stijn Christiaens (Collibra), Matthias Geeroms (Lighthouse), Jan Hollez (Deliverect),...

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Entourage VC
Evert Beeckman, Co-Founder and Partner at Entourage
evert@entourage.io