Databento
Databento is a financial-market-data provider offering real-time, historical, reference, and packet-capture data through APIs, file delivery, and dedicated connectivity.
Website or institutional source
- Low-latency trading infrastructure provider
- Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers
- Tier II
Overview
Databento is a financial-market-data provider offering real-time, historical, reference, and packet-capture data through APIs, file delivery, and dedicated connectivity. The platform is designed to reduce the engineering and commercial complexity of bringing exchange data into research and production systems.
Its products include normalized live feeds, full-depth order books, lossless packet captures, historical tick data, and security-master information. The company’s team has extensive experience in quantitative trading and market-data engineering, and its institutional user base expanded rapidly before a substantial funding round in July 2026. Within The Economy Wiki, the institution is connected to the Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers category.
Firm facts
| Institution | Databento |
| Type | Low-latency trading infrastructure provider |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City and Boston, United States |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Primary ranking focus | Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers |
| Highest 2026 tier | Tier II |
Activities and investment capabilities
Databento is active in high-performance connectivity, market data, co-location and execution systems. Its category-specific capabilities are summarized below.
Core capability
high-performance connectivity, market data, co-location and execution systems
Institutional relevance
Capabilities are assessed for professional investors, investment organizations, counterparties or hedge-fund operating teams.
Risk and execution
The profile considers research quality, implementation, governance, resilience and category-specific operating requirements.
Strategy and market coverage
Strategy and workflow coverage
high-performance connectivity, market data, co-location and execution systems
Institutional context
Coverage reflects the institution’s role in hedge-fund investment, data, trading, financing, risk or operational workflows.
Market position
Databento fits Tier II because it represents a meaningful new model for institutional market-data infrastructure. Its scale of adoption, direct-connectivity capabilities, developer-oriented delivery, and continued investment move it beyond an early-stage data utility.
Databento is assessed within the Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers framework. For wider market context, see Private Equity Technology Due Diligence in the AI Era.
Competitive context
Databento is recognized Tier II in Top 30 Low-Latency & Trading Infrastructure Providers 2026; Tier III in Top 30 Market Data & Terminal Platforms 2026. The rankings compare institutions by category relevance, investment or operating capability, research depth, risk and execution quality, institutional credibility and current activity. Comparable links support navigation and do not imply identical mandates, products or counterparties.
Leadership and governance
Leadership, investment-committee composition, product ownership and operating resources may change over time. Current information should be confirmed through the institution’s website or public institutional source.
| Leadership area | Current source |
|---|---|
| Leadership and governance | Current institutional information |
Corporate and public information
This profile refers to Databento as the public-facing institution or platform. Individual funds, advisers, broker-dealers, banks, administrators, data businesses and regulated affiliates may use separate legal names across jurisdictions.
Corporate and disclosure information
| Organization | Databento |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City and Boston, United States |
| Public source | databento.com |
| Profile basis | Public institutional information and Capital Ranking editorial research |
Ranking recognition
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