Following DataBahn’s $40M Series B, Nanda Santhana shares why the future of enterprise data goes beyond pipelines

If you came here for the customary Series B announcement, our press release has everything you'd expect: $40 million led by Insight Partners, with participation from Forgepoint, GTM Capital, and S3 Ventures, bringing our total funding to $59 million.

Every word of it is true, and I couldn't be more grateful to our customers, employees, partners, and investors who made this possible. But funding announcements tell you what happened. I think it's far more interesting to talk about why.

A few weeks ago, I was trying to explain DataBahn's long-term vision to my 78-year-old father. He has spent his entire career in fluid mechanics, so I knew talking about AI, telemetry, pipelines, and agentic architectures would get me nowhere…