Citus Data

San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2011

Citus Data developed Citus, an open source extension to PostgreSQL that transforms Postgres into a distributed database capable of horizontal scaling across multiple nodes. Founded in 2011 and acquired by Microsoft in 2019, Citus enables both multi-tenant SaaS applications and real-time analytics workloads by distributing tables and queries across a cluster. The Citus extension is 100% open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and is maintained by the Postgres team at Microsoft.

Last Updated: March 29, 2026

Current Valuation

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Funding Summary

$13M

Total reported funding

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Key People

Sumedh Pathak
Co-Founder & VP EngineeringFounder
LinkedIn Profile

Core OSS Projects

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

License: AGPL-3.0

Business Information

Industries

Data & Analytics

Technologies

Database
PostgreSQL
Distributed Database

Sectors

Enterprise

Licenses

AGPL-3.0

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