Keewano Raises $12M Seed to Scale Machine-Reasoning Database

Keewano Secures $12M Seed Round

Keewano, a Tel Aviv-based database startup, has raised $12 million in seed funding. The round was led by Hetz Ventures, with participation from DIG Ventures, a16z Speedrun, and Remagine Ventures.

What Keewano Does

Keewano's flagship product, KeewanoDB, is architected for machine reasoning. It stores every action taken by a user, device, or AI agent as a complete, ordered, contextual event sequence that agents can query directly. The company reports that roughly 250 million events can be queried in under half a second.

Launched into general availability in September 2026, the platform charges by active entity rather than per event. It ships with an analytics layer offering natural-language querying plus an autonomous agent called Signal.

Founding Team

Keewano was founded in 2024 by Mark Kardashov, Dima Karger, Pavel Bibergal, and Vitaly Bukhovsky. The team's prior companies, TestProject and Devalore, were acquired by Tricentis and Abra respectively. They previously scaled analytics and studios at gaming firm Plarium.

Funding Details

• Round: Seed
• Amount: $12,000,000 USD
• Date: September 15, 2026
• Lead Investor: Hetz Ventures
• Participating Investors: DIG Ventures, a16z Speedrun, Remagine Ventures

Acquisition Perspective

Keewano enters the database market with a differentiated architecture focused on machine reasoning and agent-queryable event sequences. The founding team's prior exits and experience scaling analytics at Plarium provide relevant operational background. The seed funding will likely support further product development and go-to-market efforts for KeewanoDB and its analytics layer.