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PlanetScale

PlanetScale, operating out of Mountain View, has financial backing from Insight Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz.

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Overview

PlanetScale is a NewSQL database-as-a-service(DbaaS) based on the open source project. They run the world's most scalable database clusters with Vitess. They created Vitess, a MySQL sharding solution powering products such as YouTube, Slack, Square and many more. PlanetScale's expertise helps such businesses scale their new and existing infrastructure faster.

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Last Transaction

11/17/2021

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Management Team

Title

Name

Email & Social

Chief Executive Officer

Jitendra Vaidya

        

Chief Technical Officer

Sugu Sougoumarane

        

VP - Finance

Karen Wong

        

VP - General Counsel

Tal Niv

        

VP - Product Management

Sam Lambert

        

VP - Sales

Vijay Nambiar

        

Company Investors

• Insight Venture Partners
• Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Bucky Moore)
• Andreessen Horowitz
• SignalFire
• BoxGroup
• Private Investors (Adam D'Angelo)
• Private Investors (Aditya Agarwal)
• Private Investors (Ellen Salisbury)
• Private Investors (Max Levchin)
• Private Investors (Michael Stoppelman)
• Private Investors (Parisa Tabriz)
• Private Investors (Prasanna Srikhantha)
• Private Investors (Raymie Stata)
• Private Investors (Ross Mason)
• Private Investors (Ruchi Sanghvi)
• Private Investors (Sam Lambert)
• Private Investors (Shishir Mehrotra)
• Private Investors (Steve Chen)

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