- conflicts or gaps
- [["User query references YC S14 (Summer 2014); authoritative sources list PipelineDB as YC Winter 2014 (W14), not Summer 2014.", "Headquarters location conflict: Y Combinator and LinkedIn list Los Angeles, CA; company press release and GitHub org list San Francisco, CA.", "Y Combinator company page lists only Derek Nelson as founder (shown twice); Jeff Ferguson is documented as co-founder in company press release and other sources but absent from YC founders list.", "Employee count conflict: YC lists team size 2; TechCrunch reports 4 employees in July 2015 and '4 founders' in January 2016 (only two named co-founders are consistently documented).", "Total funding amount undisclosed in primary press coverage; third-party aggregators report conflicting figures (e.g., ~$120K) without company confirmation.", "Number of funding rounds unclear: Berkeley/TechCrunch document at least one seed round; some aggregators claim two seed rounds without public detail.", "Exact Confluent acquisition announcement date not stated on Confluent's official blog post; only secondary sources cite May 2019.", "Acquisition price not publicly disclosed.", "Legal entity / incorporation name not found in reviewed primary sources.", "Identity of any additional early team members beyond the two named co-founders is not documented in reviewed primary sources."]]
- source urls
- ["https://founderspledge.berkeley.edu/innovators/spotlights/10-hot-data-science-companies-with-berkeley-roots/", "https://github.com/pipelinedb", "https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb", "https://linkedin.com/in/derekjn", "https://linkedin.com/in/jeffreysferguson", "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb/master/README.md", "https://taogang.medium.com/the-past-and-present-of-stream-processing-xi-pipelinedb-a-pioneer-streaming-database-that-229955ff7045", "https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/07/yc-alum-pipelinedb-releases-open-source-streaming-sql-database/", "https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/14/pipelinedb-releases-first-enterprise-version-of-its-streaming-sql-database/", "https://www.confluent.io/blog/pipelinedb-team-joins-confluent/", "https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pipelinedb-enterprise-now-available-1641/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pipelinedb"]