SingleStore Appoints Nadeem Asghar as Chief Technology Officer

SAN FRANCISCO (April 16, 2025) – SingleStore, the database and data platform that allows customers to transact, analyze and search data in real time and provides the performance they need for enterprise AI, today announced that Nadeem Asghar has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer.  

Nadeem is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in scaling early-stage startups to multi-billion-dollar revenue companies. Before joining SingleStore, Nadeem held significant roles in product, pre-sales, technology, and strategy at companies such as Cloudera, Hortonworks, Morgan Stanley, Incentify, Capgemini and Lucent Technologies.  

“Nadeem’s relentless focus on innovation has transformed SingleStore from a database to a fully hybrid data and AI platform – offering the impeccable performance our customers need for enterprise AI,” said Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore. “By creating a single platform offering single-shot retrieval of all types of data, SingleStore has become the performant data layer enabling your entire AI application stack. That’s fundamentally changing the way businesses use and process data, accelerating the adoption of generative AI at the enterprise level.”

Nadedem’s appointment follows a period of record technology advancements for SingleStore, with breakthroughs in vector search, full-text search, hybrid search, Apache Iceberg, JSON, relational analytics, AI services, LLM Model hosting, GPU-accelerated notebooks and more. 

“SingleStore is much more than a database; we are the brain and memory of AI agents, clearing away any impediments to enterprise AI and empowers organizations to bring their boldest, most innovative ideas to life,” said Nadeem. “Together with our technology partners like Snowflake, IBM, Confluent, Anthropic and AWS, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to achieve with AI, and this year we’ll unveil even more innovation to make us the ultimate AI platform for building real-time intelligent apps and agents.”

Asghar’s appointment comes as SingleStore has experienced a banner year of growth. The company was ranked number one in vector databases in 2024 and earned a 2025 Buyer’s Choice Award from TrustRadius as well as inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. The company’s product innovation has led to high-momentum growth, pushing it to surpass $100M in ARR at the end of 2023. Learn more about SingleStore here.

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About SingleStore

SingleStore delivers the performance you need for enterprise AI. From co-pilots and agents to business logic and reasoning, SingleStore enables your AI application stack — backed by a  single platform with combined OLTP + OLAP, multi-model data support, real-time analytics and the ability to work with structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.  With streaming data ingestion, support for both transactions and analytics, horizontal scalability and hybrid vector search capabilities, SingleStore helps deliver 10-100x better performance at 1/3 the costs compared to legacy architectures. Hundreds of customers worldwide — including Fortune 500 companies and global data leaders — use SingleStore to power real-time AI, applications and analytics. Learn more at singlestore.com. Follow us @SingleStoreDB on Twitter and LinkedIn or visit www.singlestore.com.