Florian Douetteau co-founded Dataiku in Paris in 2013 with Clément Stenac, Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol. The company went through the Agoranov incubator and lived on its own revenue for about two years.
Dataiku launched Data Science Studio in February 2014. Its idea was one shared workspace where analysts, coders and managers build and deploy machine-learning models together, instead of a tool for lone data scientists.
Outside money came in 2015 with about €3 million from Serena Capital and Alven, then $14 million from FirstMark in October 2016 and $101 million from Iconiq in December 2018. CapitalG invested in December 2019 at a $1.4 billion valuation, and the company raised €85 million in 2020.
In August 2021 Dataiku raised $400 million at a $4.6 billion valuation and had more than 1,200 staff. In December 2022 it raised $200 million at $3.7 billion. In 2023 Douetteau said an IPO was under consideration. The company is headquartered in New York, with its research and development in Paris.