Upriver Raises $14M in Seed Funding to Automate the Enterprise Data Foundation for AI

The company plans to use the funds to grow its engineering and go-to-market teams, improve and develop its products further, and speed up the rollout of its solutions for enterprise customers.

"As the pressure on enterprises to adopt AI intensifies, data teams are carrying the weight of that transformation," said Steve O'Hara, Founder and Managing Partner at Valley Capital Partners. "Every business unit now depends on them to make AI work, turning data engineering into one of the biggest bottlenecks inside the enterprise. Upriver stood out to us because they built an agentic system allowing organizations to move faster with AI without overwhelming their data teams."

"We're seeing enterprises invest heavily in AI, but struggle to see real impact because their data simply isn't ready," said Ido Bronstein, CEO and co-founder of Upriver. "We built Upriver to take that burden off data teams entirely. Instead of constantly sinking in repetitive technical work, data teams can lift their heads above water and focus on what moves the needle for the business, while handling the grunt work. Our goal is to make data infrastructure invisible, so enterprises can extract their organizational knowledge from the messy data and finally get from AI what was originally promised - a true force multiplier."

"Over the past year, we expanded significantly but our data operations couldn't keep up," said Uriel Knorovich, CEO of Nimble. "We tried multiple AI tools but none could handle the complexity of our environment. Once we started using Upriver, it quickly understood our data stack and started to automate our operations. Over time, the team saw a 60% productivity increase. Using Upriver, we can adapt our web search infrastructure to the constantly changing internet ensuring the reliability and quality of our results at scale."

About Upriver

Upriver is an AI-native data engineering platform built by a team of experienced operators who have worked on complex data and AI systems and are now focused on solving the problems they faced in the field. The company also has a go-to-market team with experience scaling leading data ecosystem companies. Its platform connects directly to an organization’s entire data environment, fixes data quality issues, manages pipelines, and handles end-to-end data engineering workflows using AI agents.

With its new funding, Upriver plans to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, improve its product further, and speed up deployments for enterprise customers.

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