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ArangoDB

411 Borel Ave Ste 650, San Mateo, California, 94402, United States

Overview

ArangoDB is a scalable open source graph database that combines graphs with JSON documents, a key-value store, and a full-text search engine accessible via a single query language. The platform enables graph analytics and complex data architectures across many industries and has been adopted by customers including Altair, Barclays, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Refinitiv, RE/MAX and VMware. ArangoDB reports more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub. The company is led by CEO Claudius Weinberger, CRO Frank Swain, and CTO Jörg Schad, and is based in San Francisco, California and Cologne, Germany. It intends to use the new funding to expand operations and enter new markets. Since its founding, ArangoDB has natively supported graph in combination with additional data formats, positioning its multi-model approach as a core differentiator. ArangoDB is an open source native multi-model database that unites graph, document, and key/value data models in a single core with a common query language. The product gives developers flexibility, reduces development complexity by eliminating data duplication and consistency challenges, and accelerates time-to-market by requiring teams to learn and maintain a single database. Led by CEO and co-founder Claudius Weinberger, the company reports more than 500 organizations using ArangoDB in production, including Airbus, Barclays, SAP Concur and Thomson Reuters. The company raised $10M in a Series A to accelerate product development and revenue growth and to expand engineering and sales teams in the U.S. It plans to invest in community support, marketing, human resources and sales in Silicon Valley while keeping primary software and product development in Cologne, Germany. Total funding to date after the round is $17M. ArangoDB GmbH develops the ArangoDB open-source NoSQL database, which unifies graph, key/value and JSON-document data models under a single query language. Led by Co-Founder and CEO Claudius Weinberger and based in Cologne, Germany, the company positions its product to help startups and enterprises speed innovation cycles, simplify technology stacks and improve on-time, on-budget software delivery. ArangoDB is used across use cases including e-commerce, Internet of Things, analytics, fraud detection, personalization and genomic research. The company reports a global community with over 2 million downloads and more than 3,000 organizations, including Fortune 50 companies, using the database. ArangoDB recently closed the final tranche of a €4.2m funding round led by Target Partners and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate and strengthen its US presence. The funding is expected to support its international expansion and US customer acquisition efforts. ArangoDB GmbH, based in Cologne, Germany, provides a next-generation open-source NoSQL database. Its product, ArangoDB, combines graph, key/value and JSON-document data models in a single database and query language. The platform targets startups and enterprises to speed innovation cycles and simplify technology stacks for use cases including e-commerce, IoT, analytics, fraud detection, personalization and genomic research. Led by co-founders Claudius Weinberger (CEO) and Frank Celler (CTO), the product is used by over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including Fortune 50 companies. The company raised €2.2m in a round led by Target Partners and intends to use the funds to accelerate product development and international expansion.

Total raised
$45M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Oct 2021

Industries

  • Big Data
  • Database
  • Enterprise Software
  • Open Source
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Oct 2021

    $28M

  2. Series A

    Mar 2019

    $10M

  3. Equity

    Jun 2017

    $5M

  4. Equity

    Nov 2016

    $2M

Team

  • Shekhar Iyer

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Frank Celler

    Principal Engineer

  • Claudius Weinberger

    CPO & Co-Founder

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  • Frank Swain

    Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

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