ObsessionDB

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About ObsessionDB

YC company profile

Real-time data warehouse for agents

ObsessionDB is a real-time data warehouse that makes your data stack agent-ready. Your agents can ingest and query vast amounts of data in seconds, without the scary infra bill. Powered by our own more efficient fork of ClickHouse®.

YC batch: Fall 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 5
Location: San Francisco
Country: US
Status: Active
Industry: B2B
Stage: Early
Tags: Analytics, Big Data, Databases
YC partner: Christopher Golda

Founders

Rafael Aviles — Founder/CEO

Co-Founder & CEO at ObsessionDB. Bootstrapped our previous company to $1.5 M ARR and ran it profitably for 4 years, serving 5 billion real-time API requests per month. We ran data workloads at petabyte scale. Previously worked with the data team at enterprises like Wendy's, Victoria's Secret, FOX, Disney, Axel Springer, and Groupon.

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Marc Höffl — Founder

Founder at ObsessionDB. Serial founder with 4 companies, including Frens (acquired by Swyke) and Laserfocus (YC W20). Previously CTO at Numia building real-time blockchain data infrastructure. Founded Gambify in 2014, soccer app scaled to 6 figure players with support from German National Team. Engineering Manager at Localytics. MS in Data Science from KTH Stockholm, MS in Cloud Computing from TU Berlin.

Marc Leuthardt — Founder

Co-Founder at ObsessionDB (YC F26). Previously co-founded Numia, scaling blockchain infrastructure to serve billions of monthly requests across 100+ blockchains. Co-founded and CTO at Frens (acquired by Swyke), autonomous infra validating 70+ blockchains. Co-founded and CTO at Lokalportal, led a team of 25. Degree in chemistry and economics. For a year spent a few mornings a week in a highschool chemistry lab to blow up things with students.