Stage at our first check
Year we invested
Headquarters
Team today
Founded by Elena Duarte and Kwame Osei.
Northwind runs data pipelines the way modern application infrastructure already works. You write a transformation, push it, and the platform handles scheduling, retries, and scale. When nothing is running, you pay nothing.
The wedge is teams who outgrew cron jobs and cannot justify a data platform team. Northwind gives them the reliability of a managed warehouse workflow without the headcount that usually comes attached to it.
Elena and Kwame had already run this system inside a company with a thousand engineers, and they knew exactly which parts hurt. In the first meeting they spent forty minutes on failure modes and about ninety seconds on market size. That ratio is usually a good sign.
Mara Okafor, General Partner
How it has gone so far.
We led the seed round as the first institutional check.
Public beta opens, with 300 teams in the first month.
Series A led by Foundry, eighteen months after our check.
Companies we backed at the same stage.
Elsewhere in the portfolio.
Building something like Northwind?
We write first checks at pre-seed and seed, and we answer within two business days.