Keewano raises $12M to build a database for AI agents
What's the deal? Israeli startup KeewanoDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised $12 million in seed funding, led by Hetz VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and launched KeewanoDB, a database it says is built for machine reasoning at scale. a16z speedrunDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Remagine VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, DIG VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and angel investors also participated.
What does it do? KeewanoDB stores every action taken by a user, device, or AI agent — live, in order, and with context. Analysis runs inside the database, processing trillions of events in parallel and returning compact results that agents can reason over immediately.
Why now? Analytics infrastructure was built for humans querying tables, not machines that reason live, co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Kardashov said. Most deployments capture only a few hundred event types because each one adds cost and slows queries, forcing teams to discard surrounding context.
What's the endgame? Keewano keeps each entity's full event sequence together, so an agent reads answers from raw data instead of reconstructing them. The company claims it can query a quarter of a billion events in under half a second, letting agents investigate questions a dashboard cannot — such as why a customer churned or what behaviour preceded an outcome.
The fully managed Keewano Cloud connects alongside an existing data warehouse or replaces it, using standard integrations and no per-event pricing. Organisations can plug in their own AI agents or use Keewano's.
Who's behind it? Keewano was co-founded in 2024 by Kardashov, Dima Karger, Pavel Bibergal, and Vitaly Bukhovsky — a team with two prior exits and a decade in gaming analytics. Kardashov and Bukhovsky previously sold TestProjectDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → to Tricentis in 2019 and DevaloreDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → to Abra in 2022.
Why it matters: "Every wave of AI adoption exposes the layer underneath it that wasn't built for the new workload," said Judah Taub, managing partner at Hetz Ventures. "That's why we led the round."
The signal: The round ranks in the 95th percentile among all-time seed deals for AI startups in Israel, a sign of investor appetite for infrastructure aimed at agents rather than humans. As AI systems shift from answering set queries to open-ended reasoning, the data layer beneath them is emerging as the next contested ground.
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