Firebolt Appoints Hemanth Vedagarbha to CEO as Global Expansion Accelerates

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 2, 2025 – Firebolt today announced that Hemanth Vedagarbha has been appointed as its Chief Executive Officer. With this appointment, Vedagarbha will also be joining Firebolt’s board of directors. He succeeds Co-founder and CEO Eldad Farkash, who will now serve as Firebolt’s chairman of the board.

Hemanth Vedagarbha, newly appointed CEO of Firebolt, leads the analytical database company’s global expansion. Previously serving as its President since January, Vedabargha will join the company’s board of directors.

Firebolt is on a rapid trajectory of growth, scaling its global footprint and fueling adoption among the world’s most sophisticated tech companies building the next-generation of data and AI products. The company’s unique architecture which offers Postgres compatible SQL, can run on Iceberg, and delivers exceptional price-performance for data intensive workloads, has positioned it as a go-to choice for engineering teams looking to run low-latency queries, complex joins, and heavy batch ELT all in one place.

“Over the past eight months, Hemanth has been running our go-to-market with exceptional results,” said Farkash. “This is a natural expansion of his leadership at a time when demand for Firebolt is accelerating worldwide. I’m excited to continue working closely with Hemanth in my role as chairman of the board as we scale to capitalize on this tremendous opportunity.”

Hemanth Vedagarbha joined Firebolt as President in January and has played a pivotal role in driving record growth, expanding the company’s global reach, and strengthening its position in the rapidly evolving analytical database market.

“It’s a great time to be at Firebolt,” said Vedagarbha. “The demand for efficient analytical databases that power real time applications has never been greater, with AI use cases rapidly accelerating adoption. I couldn’t be happier to take on this leadership role as we continue scaling the business globally, delivering the speed, efficiency, and control engineers need to power the most demanding analytical workloads.”

Firebolt’s decoupled metadata, storage, and compute architecture gives organizations the flexibility to run in the cloud or self-host, while maintaining the same efficiency, Iceberg support, and Postgres compatibility. AI is redefining the requirements of analytical databases, and this versatility, combined with a relentless focus on efficiency and performance, has made Firebolt the database of choice for tech companies building mission-critical data and AI products.

As Firebolt continues to expand globally, the company remains committed to delivering innovation and performance at scale — empowering customers to ship faster, run more complex workloads, and have the confidence that a production-grade platform can serve both their current as well as their future needs.

About Firebolt

Firebolt is the analytical database for real time applications. Built for production-grade data and AI workloads, Firebolt gives engineers the performance, flexibility, and control they need. Firebolt has Postgres compatible SQL, can run on Iceberg, and delivers unmatched price-performance even on complex, high-concurrency workloads. Whether fully managed in the cloud or self-hosted, with Firebolt, low-latency queries, complex joins, heavy batch ELT – all run efficiently in one place.

Source: Firebolt