VoltDB provides a cloud-native data platform designed to meet real-time streaming data requirements of 5G-powered applications, combining stream processing, context and real-time analytics. Its integrated smart streaming capabilities enable enterprises and industrial organizations to push machine-learning-supported decisioning closer to the edge. The platform emphasizes low latency and strong consistency so organizations can execute sophisticated decisions in milliseconds. Led by CEO David Flower, VoltDB targets mission-critical use cases where speed and consistency are essential. The company was founded by a team of database experts including Dr. Michael Stonebraker. VoltDB intends to use the new funds to expand its global footprint. VoltDB is an in-memory, scale-out SQL database built to power a new generation of applications that leverage fast smart data. Led by Bruce Reading, CEO and President, the platform enables organizations to add context and intelligence to data and make real-time transactional decisions. Customers span markets such as mobile, financial services, energy, advertising, security and gaming. The company is based in Bedford, Mass. and Santa Clara, Calif. VoltDB raised $9.8M in a funding round led by strategic investors, with participation from existing investors Kepha Partners and Sigma Prime Ventures. With this investment the company has raised a total of $31.3M in funding. VoltDB provides an operational database platform that delivers high-speed data processing and real-time, in-memory analytics for millisecond decisioning. Its platform processes, analyzes and acts on massive amounts of incoming data. Customers in mobile, financial services, energy, advertising and gaming use VoltDB to power mission-critical enterprise applications, transportation systems, electricity management, and mobile and advertising networks. The company was founded in 2009 by Professor Michael Stonebraker and is led by CEO Bruce Reading. VoltDB is based in Bedford, Mass. and Santa Clara, Calif. It has more than 400 commercial customers and plans to use the new funding to accelerate sales and marketing and expand globally. VoltDB closed a $5M financing from Kepha Partners and Sigma Partners to extend adoption of its database software. Jo Tango of Kepha Partners and John Mandile of Sigma Partners will join the company’s board. Co-founded in 2009 by Dr. Michael Stonebraker, VoltDB develops an open-source DBMS that combines in-memory processing, a shared‑nothing scale-out architecture and a high‑availability solution. The company says its performance advantage stems from an in-memory, distributed database partitioning concept optimized for memory‑rich servers with multi‑core CPUs. VoltDB’s Community Edition is GPL‑licensed and available free of charge. Annual support subscriptions are offered starting at $15,000 per year. The company is based in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Total raised

$33M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Oct 2019