CelerData has relaunched as PhoenixAI and appointed Rick Underwood as president, according to a company statement. The San Francisco-based company positions itself as a database designed for AI agents to query enterprise data.

PhoenixAI describes its platform as an analytical engine that enables AI agents to access live enterprise data at sub-second latency with high concurrency. The company states its system unifies real-time and historical data in a single engine.

Underwood joins PhoenixAI from Clumio, where he served as CEO before the company's acquisition by Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT). His previous experience includes senior go-to-market roles at Snowflake from 2017 through its 2020 IPO, and leadership positions at Wavefront, which VMware acquired in 2017, and Semmle, acquired by Microsoft in 2019.

"Most of today's analytical databases were architected for a world that no longer exists, where humans ran dashboards on flat tables and complexity was someone else's problem," Underwood said. "When thousands of agents need to query, reason, and act on petabytes of live data simultaneously — any question, simple or complex — the database is either the bottleneck or the breakthrough."

As president, Underwood will oversee go-to-market strategy, customer success, finance, and operations.

The company offers deployment options including bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) and self-hosted configurations through PhoenixAI Anywhere. The platform includes features such as role-based access control, SOC 2 compliance, and encryption capabilities.

PhoenixAI is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.