About Tessell

On a mission to put the enterprise back in control of its data

Tessell exists so organizations can migrate, manage, and modernize their entire database estate without breaking what already works, and without handing control to any single cloud.

Fortune 500 companies, global banks, and government agencies trust Tessell with their most critical databases

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aon
collectors
landis
moody
Tata Capital
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Why Tessell exists

Tessell is built around one idea: enterprises should never have to choose between control and speed.

Teams keep their engines, their clouds, and their governance, and get a single way to run all of it. Founded in 2021, Tessell set out to make managing data in the cloud effortless, even for the largest and most regulated organizations. The founding team brought more than 50 years of combined experience in databases and data management, and had seen how much cost, complexity, and lock-in enterprises were expected to accept. The name says it. Tessellation is the art of arranging separate pieces into one seamless pattern, with no gaps and no overlaps. That is what Tessell does for an entire database estate, every engine and every cloud brought into one coherent whole, run inside the customer's own account.

“Enterprises know they need to modernize their database estates. The question is how to execute with speed without breaking what is already working.”

Bala Kuchibhotla, Co-Founder and CEO

The people behind Tessell

Built by people who have operated data at scale

A founding team with deep roots in database systems, joined by leaders who have taken data platforms to enterprise scale.

Bala Kuchibhotla
Bala KuchibhotlaCo-Founder and CEO
Kamal Khanuja
Kamal KhanujaCo-Founder
Bakul Banthia
Bakul BanthiaCo-Founder
Jeff Carter
Jeff CarterChief Strategy Officer
Matt McDonough
Matt McDonoughPresident, GTM

Backed by the investors who built the modern data stack

WestBridge Capital
lightspeed
B37
Rocketship
Recognition

Analyst Recognition

Gartner Cool Vendor 2025
Infrared Report 2025
Gartner Strong Performer | VOC 2025
Top Cloud Infrastructure and Data Management Solution
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