PlanetScale is a California-based software company with a platform that can be used for solutions to deploy and operate Vitess clusters at scale. Its product is used by companies such as Slack, Square, Airbnb, and Github.
The company's product is open source and designed to aid companies with growing their databases. It splits up the information from the database into shards so that it can be more easily managed. The data can be distributed globally on various clouds. It is also continuously backed up so that the database is still accessible during outages.
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The funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by the firm’s Cultural Leadership Fund, head of the US Digital Service Matt Cutts and SignalFire.
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Dan Kozlowski
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Jiten Vaidya
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PlanetScale Recruiting
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Shreeya Vaidya
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Sugu Sougoumarane
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Software as a service (SaaS)
Enterprise software
Database
Big data
Cloud computing
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Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California
Mountain View, California
Jitendra Vaidya
Jiten Vaidya
Sugu Sougoumarane
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Adam D'Angelo
SignalFire
The a16z Cultural Leadership Fund
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Max Levchin
Matt Cutts
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