The data warehouse for startups

AI Analytics from day one, with 50% off

Trusted by Startups

Partnered with leading startup ecosystems

Startups love Motherduck

AI-Native from Day One

Build AI-powered data products without stitching together a separate stack. MotherDuck's MCP Server lets AI agents like Claude query and write to your data directly. Dives turn natural language into shareable, interactive visualizations. AI Functions run LLM-powered classification, extraction, and summarization inside plain SQL. Your data warehouse isn't just storing data — it's powering your AI features.

Ship Faster, Not Infrastructure

Your team should be building product, not managing data warehouses. MotherDuck is fully serverless — no clusters to provision, no knobs to tune, no ops to hire for. Just connect and query. Built on DuckDB, the fastest-growing SQL analytics engine, so you get blazing performance without the complexity of legacy platforms.

The Perfect Backend for Analytics Agents

Give every customer — or every AI agent — their own isolated analytics instance that scales to zero when idle. MotherDuck's Hypertenancy provisions dedicated DuckDB compute per tenant automatically, so one user's heavy query never impacts another's. No shared-resource bottlenecks, no noisy neighbors, no manual provisioning.

Modern Duck Stack

MotherDuck works out of the box with 50+ leading data tools, allowing you to deploy quickly and future-proof your data stack.

Loved by startups of all sizes

For Data Teams

The Data Warehouse

Mother Duck's features and UI are designed with data teams in mind. From taking in a birds'-eye view of your data with Column Explorer, to writing SQL queries with Fixlt, our notebook-like interface ensures your data explorations are smooth sailing, and we're constantly making improvements to keep you in the flow.

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For App Devs

Zero latency, in-browser analytics on DuckDB in the cloud

We already do everything in the browser. Why not analytics? The bar for in-app analytics experiences has never been higher! Data-driven decision making is essential, and high-latency, static dashboards don’t meet user needs. Using the power of DuckDB, MotherDuck helps developers build warp speed, responsive data experiences that run in the browser and the cloud.

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Apply Now!

Qualifying startups get 50% off their annual contract on our Business Plan. No feature gating, and no hidden fees. This is on top of the 7 day trial.

Eligibility criteria:

Not an existing MotherDuck paying customer

Have an active website (not in stealth)

Less than 20 employees

Less than $5m in VC funding

FAQS

Who is eligible?

Startups with less than $5m in funding (including bootstrapped), and fewer than 20 employees are welcome to apply. You must be a new customer, or an existing customer on the Free plan. Startup discount cannot be combined with other offers.

Will I get support from you?

We want to help our Startup program members succeed on their data journey. After you are accepted to the program, our support team will reach out to learn about your goals, answer questions, and provide guidance.

I'm already a MotherDuck customer. Is my startup eligible?

MotherDuck for Startups is for new customers only, but startups already using our Free plan are eligible to apply. MotherDuck customers on paid plans are not eligible.

Does the startup discount expire?

The annual contract taking advantage of the 50% discount needs to get signed within 3 months from being accepted into the program.

How do I become a MotherDuck for Startups partner?

MotherDuck partners with venture capital funds, accelerators, incubators, and startup programs to share offers. If you'd like to add MotherDuck to your deal book or add an offer to our deal book, please contact startups@motherduck.com