MotherDuck
Cloud DuckDB service — hybrid execution. Queries run partly on your laptop (DuckDB locally) + partly in the cloud. Founded by ex-BigQuery folks.
Jordan Tigani (BigQuery early lead) + Tino Tereshko founded 2022. Pitch: "big data is dead" — most datasets are <1 TB, DuckDB handles them locally. The cloud part only when you need to share or query data you don't have locally. Seed → Series B in 18 months. Competitors: BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt + Postgres.