French startup Popsink, specializing in real-time data infrastructure, announces that it has raised €3 million in seed funding. The round was led by IRIS, with participation from XAnge, Seedcamp, Irregular Expressions, and several business angels.
This funding is expected to allow the company to double its headcount, accelerate the development of its platform, and expand its presence across Europe and North America.
Many strategic information systems (ERP, CRM, mainframes, Oracle/IBM databases) remain hard to access and function like “black boxes.” Extracting their data remains costly, complex, and risky, hindering the success of analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence projects.
Unlocking Data from Critical Systems
Popsink’s technology is based on Change Data Capture (CDC). It enables continuous capture of data changes at the source and real-time replication to modern platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Iceberg. This approach eliminates the need for heavy migrations, integrates directly with existing architectures, and respects sovereignty and multicloud constraints for large European enterprises.
Popsink was founded by Benjamin Djidi (CEO), a former senior engineer at Amazon and a manager at Sixt, where he worked on data initiatives and on Alexa, and by Alexandre Colella (CTO), a software engineering and cloud specialist who has been involved with several deeptech startups.
Their combined experience with large-scale, complex environments and cloud engineering has enabled them to design a robust solution tailored to the needs of large enterprises.
Popsink aims to strengthen its technology offering and accelerate its footprint among major accounts, particularly in France, Germany, and the United States.
