RethinkDB Raised $1.2 Million

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This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 5, 2010 at 3:22 pm

RethinkDB have raised a seed round of over $1.2 million from a syndicate of some institutional and angel investors in Silicon Valley. The institutional investors that participated in this round include Highland Capital Partners, Avalon Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Charles River Ventures. Angel investors include Brian Pokorny from SV Angel, Paul Buchheit, Udi Manber, Steve Chen, and Russ Siegelman. Database guru, Jeremy Zawodny, has signed on as an advisor to the company.

Over the next eighteen months, RethinkDB intends to build a team of software engineers to help create the ‘database of the future’.

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