Dgraph, the San Francisco, CA-based behind the most popular open source Graph database, raised $6m in a seed re-financing round.
The round was led by Venrock and Uncorrelated Ventures, with participation from Abstract Ventures, HackVC, SaxeCap, and Liquid2 Ventures, as well as DJ Patil, former US Chief Data Scientist; Michael Callahan, founder of Awake Security; Ry Walker, founder of Astronomer; Ganesh Srinivasan, Chief Product Officer at Confluent; Chris Riccomini; and JP Patil, Head of Data at Included Health.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate product innovation and investment into the open source community.
Led by recently appointed CEO Akon Dey, Ph.D., Dgraph provides a graph database, an open source, general purpose, distributed graph database powering high performance applications and operational needs. Customers include companies from Fortune 500 companies as well as rapid-growth startups.
Joining Dey on the executive team is Gajanan Chinchwadkar, Ph.D., as Chief Technology Officer, an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience at AWS, Marklogic and Sybase in distributed database systems, multi-modal query engines and query optimization.
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20/07/2022