Cockroach Labs raised $20M

What does Cockroach Labs do?

Cockroach Labs, is an open-source database developer. It provides world class open source infrastructure solutions. The company’s aim is to make data easy.  It believes that a database must grow to any scale, from the garage to fortune 500. It has to survive many disasters, not just machines and disks, but data centers.  It has to provide one truth globally, data must be accessible from any place, accurately and efficiently and a database has to allow you in building apps, not force you to build workarounds. This company is behind CockroachDB, an open source, scalable SQL database. It is a distributed relational database which is survivable, scalable and is strongly consistent. It combines the rich functionality of SQL with the horizontal scalability common to the NoSQL offerings, and provides recovery of enterprise grade disaster. The company runs with one and only mission; making data easy.

How much Cockroach Labs was funded?

Cockroach Labs raised $20M in Series A on March 30, 2016 from GV, Benchmark, FirstMark Capital and Index Ventures.

Previous funding

$6.25M in Series A on June 4, 2015 from Techammer, Benchmark, Sequoia Capital, FirstMark Capital and GV.

What is next for Cockroach Labs?

The company has new members of the board, Peter Fenton and Mike Volpi of Benchmark company  and Index, which are the investors in the latest round of funding.

More about Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs was founded in 2015 by Spencer Kimball, Ben Darnell and Peter Mattis. It has its headquarters in New York, New York. The company aims at developing infrastructure solutions for businesses. The company’s flagship product, Cockroach DB, is to provide a distributed database which is capable of precisely synchronizing the data in its systems and is highly survivable, irrespective of where that data resides. This product aims at being a tool which keeps services online even if an entire data center or several servers, go offline.

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