dbt Labs
platform Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Founded 2016 201-500 employees
dbt Labs is a Philadelphia data infrastructure company founded in 2016, building the open-source dbt framework for SQL-based data transformation. Raised $414M total at $4.2B valuation.
About dbt Labs
dbt Labs is a Philadelphia-based data infrastructure company founded in 2016. The company develops dbt (data build tool), an open-source framework for transforming data in warehouses using SQL and Python. dbt Labs raised $414 million in total funding, including a $222 million Series D in 2022 at a $4.2 billion valuation. The company maintains both the open-source dbt Core project (Apache 2.0 license) and the commercial dbt Cloud managed service. As of 2026, over 40,000 companies use dbt, and the dbt community includes more than 150,000 members.