Participated · Seed · Sep 2014

Instaclustr is a Palo Alto–based provider of completely managed solutions for scalable open-source technologies. It offers an Open Source-as-a-Service platform that delivers hosted and managed big data technology solutions in their open-source form. Core technologies on the managed platform include Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark and Apache Kafka. The company positions its offering to give customers the data capabilities required to scale while avoiding vendor or technical lock-in. Instaclustr serves more than 100 customers across various industries and intends to use recent funding to accelerate expansion of its managed platform. Instaclustr delivers hosted and managed DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra services for distributed database deployments. The company is based in San Mateo, California and Canberra, Australia and is led by CEO Doug Stuart. Apache Cassandra is described as an open source distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers with features such as automated deployment, configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, backups and multi‑datacenter support. Instaclustr raised over $2m in seed funding to accelerate growth and extend product capability and features. The company plans to use the funds to hire new people and to establish a startup program aimed at complementing DataStax’s investment in new ventures. No other financial metrics or prior rounds are reported in the article.