About Databasin

The infrastructure was broken. We built the way out.

Capable organizations were spending 70% of their data budgets just moving and storing data — with barely anything left for the work that matters. We built the platform that changes that.

HIMSS '23 · '24 · '25
Featured by Microsoft and Databricks at three consecutive HIMSS annual conferences
WashU Medicine
Co-created at Washington University School of Medicine — in production, not in a lab
Days, not years
From sign-up to a production data platform — proven repeatedly across industries

Built because nothing else worked.

The Databasin founders spent their careers building enterprise data solutions for healthcare and mid-market organizations — building pipelines, standing up warehouses, and helping teams make sense of their data. Time and again, they watched capable teams fall into the same trap: spending 70% of their time and budget just moving and storing data, with barely a fraction left for the analytics that actually move the business forward.

They watched organizations attempt to layer AI capabilities onto fragmented legacy architectures — and encounter the same limitations every time. The result was stalled projects, mounting vendor costs, and a gradual loss of confidence in data-driven decision-making. The problem wasn't talent or ambition. It was the architecture.

Databasin was built to end that cycle. Co-created at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis — one of the most demanding data environments in the country — Databasin was designed to give lean teams the enterprise-grade infrastructure that previously required a staff of specialists and a seven-figure technology budget.

Today, Databasin helps highly regulated organizations across healthcare, finance, and construction modernize their data foundations in weeks, not years — without the complexity tax that has defined enterprise data infrastructure for the past two decades.

Built for one of the most demanding data environments in the country — now available to every organization that needs it.

2021
The problem that started everything
Co-created at Washington University School of Medicine's Institute for Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics (I2DB) to meet the Epic EHR data demands of one of the country's leading academic medical centers. No commercial solution existed at AMC scale.
2022
Production infrastructure, proven under pressure
Platform deployed in production at WashU Medicine. Epic data management proven at AMC scale — not a prototype, not a proof of concept.
2023
Microsoft features Databasin at HIMSS
Commercial availability begins. Microsoft recognizes Databasin as the solution to the Epic data challenge facing health systems nationwide.
2024
Databricks joins. Platform expands.
Featured at HIMSS alongside Microsoft for the second consecutive year. Platform extended to mid-market finance, construction, and higher education.
2025
Databasin One — ask your data anything
AI-native Insights module launched. Third consecutive HIMSS feature. Natural language queries against governed, gold-layer data — no analyst required.
2026
Free trial. Channel partners. Full platform.
14-day free trial launching for data engineers and technical teams. Channel co-sell partnerships with Microsoft, Databricks, and Snowflake AE networks formalized.

The founders still run every demo.

Jake Gower
Co-Founder & CEO

Jake has spent his career building enterprise data solutions for healthcare and mid-market organizations before co-founding Databasin. He leads go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy — and still joins every executive-level conversation because he knows the problem better than anyone in the room.

Chris Lundeberg
Co-Founder & CPO

Chris is the architect of the Databasin platform — and the person who leads every technical demo personally. He co-created the original Epic data pipeline at Washington University School of Medicine's I2DB and has been building the platform ever since. When you get a demo, you're talking to the person who built it.

Organizations using Databasin
WashU Medicine
BJC Health
Saint Louis University
KVC Health
McCormack Baron
Compana Pet Brands

A number of the organizations listed have been Databasin customers since the platform's earliest production deployments.

How we think about building this.

01
The data team should never be the bottleneck
When every question requires a ticket, a sprint, and three weeks, the data team isn't enabling the business — they're a queue. Databasin eliminates that queue structurally, not by adding headcount.
02
Infrastructure complexity is a tax, not a feature
Every hour spent on ingestion, pipeline maintenance, and storage configuration is an hour not spent on analytics. The complexity tax is real, measurable, and our job to eliminate.
03
Regulated industries deserve better than workarounds
Healthcare and finance organizations have been told that serious data infrastructure means serious compliance risk. Sovereign, private deployment in your own environment delivers both — no tradeoff required.
04
Openness over lock-in, always
Open table formats. Engine-agnostic compute. Your data readable by any compatible tool, now and in the future. We have no interest in becoming the next proprietary moat you'll spend years escaping.
Ready to See It

See the platform. Talk to the founders.

No SDR. No demo script. A direct conversation about your environment, your constraints, and whether Databasin is the right fit.