ArangoDB, the company behind the unified data platform built for GenAI, today announced a strategic investment from ORIX Corporation USA’s Growth Capital business. The funding arrives amid an inflection point in the market. Organizations are now realizing their data infrastructure wasn’t built for AI and they’re looking for data infrastructure systems that are. The investment will accelerate ArangoDB’s growth across three rapidly expanding fronts: large enterprises re-platforming for AI transformation, product teams embedding AI-native infrastructure into their applications, and startups building net-new AI services where scalability, flexibility, and unification matter most. Each of these segments faces the same fundamental challenge: stitching together relational, vector, and graph-like data in a way that delivers meaning and speed under AI workloads. Most are still duct-taping tools to make that happen. “The truth is the AI revolution has already outgrown the legacy data stack. We’re helping teams replace that complexity with a platform that natively understands how AI wants to work – flexible data, unified logic, built-in context, and no silos.We are excited to work with David Orlandella and the ORIX team who saw the vision and potential of what ArangoDB has and is building,” said Shekhar Iyer, CEO of ArangoDB. The ArangoDB platform combines graph, document, key/value, full-text, and vector search in a single engine. That means teams don’t need to wire together three or four databases just to build something intelligent. Whether the use case is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), dynamic knowledge graphs, or autonomous agents operating on top of live data, ArangoDB provides a unified backbone, all without sacrificing performance or control and significantly lower cost. For data-focused Enterprise AI teams, ArangoDB is used to rebuild internal knowledge systems, power customer-facing agents, and move beyond the limitations of business intelligence tooling that was never meant for real-time decisions. In these environments, flexibility and compliance are as much a concern as performance and scalability, and ArangoDB’s hybrid deployment model from on-prem to private cloud has been a differentiator.
At the product level, embedded AI infrastructure is becoming table stakes. Companies delivering next-gen SaaS platforms in all verticals need a backend that can reason, adapt, and serve AI-native functions without latency or glue code. ArangoDB’s query language (AQL), flexible schema model, and high-performance ingestion pipeline have made it a favorite among development teams who want full capability without the operational pain of multiple data layers.
Startups, meanwhile, are pushing boundaries faster than legacy infrastructure can support. Many are starting greenfield, and skipping the relational phase entirely. They’re looking for systems that can scale with them from MVP to Series C without rearchitecting. ArangoDB offers those teams a single query layer, a flexible data model, and built-in tools for ingesting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It also works out of the box with GenAI tooling, making it faster to build and ship context-aware AI experiences.
“I’m excited to partner with Shekhar Iyer and the ArangoDB team as they enable the next wave of intelligent, connected applications. AI is no longer just about big data – it’s about connected data. ArangoDB delivers the graph-native, multi-model power AI demands including vector search, graph analytics, and document storage all in one solution. I look forward to supporting the team as they continue to scale the business during this exciting time for AI,” said David Orlandella, Managing Director of ORIX USA's Growth Capital business.
ArangoDB is seeing increased adoption by startups all the way up to Global 2000 firms, and plans to continue investing in tools and services that make it easier for its growing business to scale. The company has already seen notable success in industries ranging from Hi-Tech, Financial Services and Telecom, Healthcare to Public Sector and many more. Leading companies like Nvidia, HPE, London Stock Exchange, Cloud Imperium Games have trusted ArangoDB to solve their various business solution challenges.
About ArangoDB ArangoDB is headquartered in Silicon Valley with an R&D HQ Center in Germany, builds a next-generation AI data platform designed to help organizations unify and activate their most complex data. By natively combining graph, document, key/value, full-text, and vector search in a single engine, ArangoDB empowers teams to rapidly deploy GenAI use cases like RAG, dynamic knowledge graphs, and intelligent agentic applications. With built-in tools for ingesting and modeling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, ArangoDB helps companies break free from legacy data platform limitations and build faster with context-rich, AI-ready infrastructure. From AQL (its intuitive query language) to modern integration tooling, ArangoDB gives developers and data teams the power to build, scale, and evolve alongside AI.
About ORIX Corporation USA (ORIX USA) Established in the U.S. in 1981, ORIX USA has grown organically and through acquisition into the investment and asset management firm we are today. With a specialization in private credit, real estate, and private equity solutions for middle-market focused borrowers and investors, we combine our robust balance sheet with funds from third-party investors, providing a strong alignment of interest. ORIX USA and its subsidiaries - ORIX Advisers, ORIX Capital Partners, Signal Peak Capital Management, Boston Financial, Lument, Real Estate Capital and NXT Capital - have approximately 1300 employees across the U.S. and have $91.3 billion in assets, which includes $40.5 billion in assets and commitments, in addition to $50.8 billion in servicing and administering assets, as of March 2025. Our parent company, ORIX Corporation, is a publicly owned international financial services company with operations in 30 countries and regions worldwide. ORIX Corporation is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (8591) and New York Sock Exchange (IX). For more information, visit orix.com. As of June 30, 2025. Includes $50.8 billion in servicing and administering assets, in addition to $40.5 billion in funded assets and unfunded commitments across proprietary capital, third party capital and strategic partners investing in ORIX USA's private credit, real estate and private equity businesses. Unfunded commitments are based on a contractual commitment or an expected commitment for an established program based on ORIX USA Group's understanding.