ScaleArc provides database load balancing software designed to eliminate application downtime from database outages or maintenance, improve application performance and scale database capacity. Founded in 2009 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company is led by president and CEO Justin Barney. Its software is marketed to organizations of all sizes. ScaleArc intends to use proceeds from its recent financing to fund continued growth and global expansion. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Nexus Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Most recently it secured a debt facility to support its growth plans. ScaleArc builds software that sits between applications and databases to shield apps from database failures, simplify scale-out, and improve application performance. The platform supports SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle and eases moving enterprise workloads into the cloud. ScaleArc’s customers include Dell, Vitacost (a division of Kroger), Axcess Financial, snapdeal, Zos Communications (running on the Amazon cloud) and Stitch Labs. Led by CEO Justin Barney, the company focuses on maintaining application uptime despite planned or unplanned database outages. The business recently completed a new financing and plans to use the proceeds to grow global operations, increase hiring, and expand sales and marketing initiatives. ScaleArc builds database infrastructure software centered on its ScaleArc iDB product, which provides visibility into database traffic with real-time SQL analytics and a patent-pending SQL-NoSQL hybrid caching engine. The caching engine enables applications to use a NoSQL cache without code changes or new drivers. Its software supports MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, and is available as software on x86-64 servers, as a virtual appliance on x86 hypervisors, or as a turn-key appliance. The product is cloud-ready and distributed via service providers including the Amazon AWS Marketplace, GoGrid, Joyent, Hyperwiser, Liquid Web Hosting and NephoScale. Customers named in the article include Demand Media, Disney UTV, KIXEYE, Sazze (dealspl.us), Flipkart and Weather Decision Technologies. The company, led by founder & CEO Varun Singh, plans to use new capital to invest in sales and marketing for global expansion and to continue product development, and is hiring in the US and India. ScaleArc is a Menlo Park, California-based developer of software that simplifies how database environments are deployed and managed. Led by founder and CEO Varun Singh, the company has built database infrastructure software that abstracts database servers from application servers to provide instant horizontal scaling and connection management. Its platform offers real-time visibility into every query for analytics and troubleshooting, one-click query caching, and wire-speed security enforcement. Customers include companies across eCommerce, web 2.0/SaaS, online gaming, digital media, service providers and enterprises. ScaleArc recently closed a $5.33M Series B financing and plans to use the funds to expand into new markets and hire additional staff. The company also appointed former Juniper Networks executive Justin Barney as president and COO.

Total raised

$45M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Debt Financing

Latest activity

Jan 2017