Arjun Narayan

Co-founder & CEO at Materialize

Infrastructure founders whose technology powers AdTech bidding and measurement systems represent a critical but overlooked category; Narayan's work directly enables programmatic real-time decisioning.

Last updated May 25, 2026 by jonholm

Bio

Arjun Narayan co-founded Materialize, a streaming SQL database company whose real-time data infrastructure is increasingly adopted by AdTech firms for bidding, frequency capping, and attribution workloads. His work on operational data infrastructure underpins the real-time decisioning layer of modern programmatic systems.

Expertise

Real-Time Data InfrastructureStreaming SQLAdTech Infrastructure