[AI Data Company Edelbyte Raises $45 Million in Series A Funding, Valuation Reaches $500 Million] BlockBeats reported on November 11th that data infrastructure company Edelbyte raised $45 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $500 million. The round was led by Quiet Capital, with participation from all existing investors and new investors including QP Ventures, Startpoint Capital, and Cerca Partners. The company had previously completed a $25 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Greenoaks and Swish Ventures, bringing its total funding to $70 million. Founded in November 2025 by four former Microsoft engineers, Edelbyte provides a data platform for the increasingly complex query loads of the AI era. Co-founders and CEO Avner Aharoni, CTO Evgeney Ryzhyk, VP of Engineering Alexander Sloutsky, and VP of Platform Engineering Yoni Leibowitz all worked at Microsoft for approximately 20 years and have over a decade of experience working together. Ryzhyk and Sloutsky were among the founding members of Microsoft's internal data platform, Kusto, which later became the foundation for products such as Azure Data Explorer. Edelbyte's platform integrates traditional analytics, text search, spatial queries, and AI workloads on the same infrastructure and can be deployed in public, private, and on-premises environments. [Original Link]