SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway, specializing in early-stage investments primarily in the Internet software sector. Established in 1992, the firm distinguishes itself from traditional venture capital by adopting a portfolio approach, investing in a larger number of companies while refraining from taking board seats. This allows SV Angel to focus on providing extensive business development, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advice to its portfolio companies. Over the years, SV Angel has supported numerous high-profile startups, including Facebook, Google, and Airbnb. The firm continues to leverage its extensive network to facilitate growth and innovation within the companies it invests in, aiming to foster a thriving startup ecosystem across the United States.

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Ronald Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Database

Airbyte

Series B in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform enables users to automate data pipelines using pre-built or custom connectors, allowing for efficient data consolidation and analytics. By providing a flexible and user-friendly solution, Airbyte helps businesses effectively gather and manage their data, even from users who employ ad-blocking tools. This functionality supports a wide range of data-driven decision-making processes across different industries.

Xata

Seed Round in 2021
Xata provides a serverless database platform that combines the capabilities of traditional databases with the user-friendly interface of a spreadsheet application. This service is designed to seamlessly integrate into users' development workflows, facilitating tasks such as data insertion, querying, aggregation, and searching across various development environments, including JavaScript and APIs. Xata's architecture ensures that data is automatically replicated in multiple global regions, which enhances performance by minimizing response times for end users.

Airbyte

Series A in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform enables users to automate data pipelines using pre-built or custom connectors, allowing for efficient data consolidation and analytics. By providing a flexible and user-friendly solution, Airbyte helps businesses effectively gather and manage their data, even from users who employ ad-blocking tools. This functionality supports a wide range of data-driven decision-making processes across different industries.

Airbyte

Series A in 2021
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that facilitates the synchronization of data from various applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses. The platform enables users to automate data pipelines using pre-built or custom connectors, allowing for efficient data consolidation and analytics. By providing a flexible and user-friendly solution, Airbyte helps businesses effectively gather and manage their data, even from users who employ ad-blocking tools. This functionality supports a wide range of data-driven decision-making processes across different industries.

ReadySet Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a database acceleration technology designed to help developers build performant and real-time applications. The company's technology offers latencies of an optimized custom caching system, query throughput of reading replicas and direct development experience using a single relational database, enabling developers to scale out the database by reading horizontally without making code changes or switching databases.

Canvas

Seed Round in 2020
Canvas makes data teams spend less time on SQL favors and dashboard maintenance.

Canvas

Seed Round in 2020
Canvas makes data teams spend less time on SQL favors and dashboard maintenance.

Splitgraph

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of an integrated data catalog software designed to combine data sources into reproducible data images. The company's indexes offer diverse data sources, including both live databases and versioned data snapshots which help users to connect to the data delivery network and build versioned datasets from data, enabling data scientists and engineers to create, share and extend datasets in a simple and reproducible way.

EdgeDB

Seed Round in 2019
Through streamlined data model and powerful query language, we make working with data productive, pleasant and efficient for developers and data engineers.

DIRT Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
DIRT Protocol, founded in 2017 and based in the United States, offers a platform for decentralized curation of trusted data sets. The protocol utilizes a token staking mechanism to promote honesty and accuracy in information sharing, distinguishing itself from traditional Token Curated Registries. Users can contribute data similarly to a collaborative platform like Wikipedia, but must stake tokens to ensure accountability. This economic incentive fosters a system where incorrect information can be challenged, allowing users to earn tokens for identifying inaccuracies. By organizing information registries, DIRT Protocol aims to maintain high-quality data while making it freely accessible, thereby reducing the prevalence of misinformation.

Cockroach Labs

Seed Round in 2015
Cockroach Labs, Inc. specializes in developing open-source database software, notably CockroachDB, which is a distributed SQL database tailored for modern cloud applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company also has an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CockroachDB is designed to scale horizontally and can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, while maintaining minimal latency and no need for manual intervention. It supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data management. The software is suitable for diverse clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, and is utilized for enterprise-grade disaster recovery services. CockroachDB combines the rich features of SQL with the scalability typically associated with NoSQL databases, enabling developers to innovate rapidly without compromising on consistency. The platform is trusted by major enterprises across various sectors, including finance, retail, and media.

OneName

Seed Round in 2014
Onename is a registrar (like GoDaddy) for the .id namespace on the Blockstack network.

PipelineDB

Seed Round in 2014
PipelineDB, Inc. is a developer of a real-time analytics database that specializes in processing streaming data. Incorporated in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers an open-source extension to PostgreSQL, allowing users to write continuous SQL queries on time-series data. This innovative platform enables users to pose queries in advance, with results updated incrementally as new data arrives, which is particularly beneficial for real-time reporting applications. By facilitating the deployment of real-time application code directly in front of the database, PipelineDB helps clients eliminate the need for traditional data recording, focusing instead on high-performance aggregation of streaming data. As of May 2019, PipelineDB operates as a subsidiary of Confluent, Inc.

Compose

Series A in 2012
Compose, Inc. is a managed platform designed for developers to deploy, host, and scale databases, specializing in solutions for MongoDB and Elasticsearch. The company provides a range of services, including auto-scaling, monitoring tools, replica sets, regular backups, and priority email support, all hosted on SSD servers. Founded in 2009 and based in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Birmingham, Alabama, Compose was previously known as MongoHQ before rebranding in August 2014. As of July 2015, the company operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corporation. By offering shared hosting, database management tools, and user-controlled backups, Compose aims to facilitate efficient data solutions for developers.

Citus Data

Seed Round in 2012
Citus Data, Inc. develops and distributes database products. Its services include sales and marketing automation, online e-commerce, analytics and optimization, information and network security, advertising networks, and finance services. It serves community, cloud and enterprise industries. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Istanbul, Turkey. As of January 24, 2019, Citus Data, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

WibiData

Series A in 2012
WibiData is a software company that specializes in big data applications aimed at helping enterprises create personalized experiences across various channels. Founded in 2010 in San Francisco under the name Odiago by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu, WibiData leverages open-source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro, and the Kiji Project. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Through its innovative platform, WibiData enables organizations to effectively analyze and utilize their data for enhanced customer engagement.

FoundationDB

Angel Round in 2011
FoundationDB is a scalable NoSQL database designed to provide high-performance multi-key ACID transactions while accommodating multiple data models. Founded in 2009 by Nick Lavezzo, Dave Rosenthal, and Dave Scherer, the company emerged to fill the gap in the market for transactional NoSQL database systems. The founding team leverages their extensive experience in executive and technology roles, particularly from their time at Visual Sciences, to develop advanced data processing technologies. FoundationDB's architecture emphasizes fault tolerance and scalability, making it suitable for various applications that require reliable and efficient data management.

RethinkDB

Series A in 2011
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform tailored for the realtime web. It enables developers to create scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports JSON document storage and features a user-friendly query language that facilitates complex operations such as table joins and grouping. With a highly parallelized architecture, the platform is designed for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into their production clusters. This innovative approach helps developers build realtime applications more quickly and with fewer resources.

MemSQL

Seed Round in 2011
SingleStore, Inc. is a provider of relational databases designed for both cloud and on-premises transactions and analytics. The company offers the SingleStore Managed Service, a cloud database-as-a-service that facilitates analytics on various cloud platforms, as well as SingleStore DB, a distributed SQL database suitable for operational analytics on bare metal and hybrid cloud environments. SingleStore's solutions include modernizing data platforms, securing government workloads, IoT analytics, and customer interaction management, serving diverse sectors such as financial services, media, energy, government, and retail. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, SingleStore also has offices in Seattle, Boston, Portland, Lisbon, and London. Previously known as MemSQL Inc., the company rebranded to SingleStore, Inc. in October 2020.

Compose

Seed Round in 2011
Compose, Inc. is a managed platform designed for developers to deploy, host, and scale databases, specializing in solutions for MongoDB and Elasticsearch. The company provides a range of services, including auto-scaling, monitoring tools, replica sets, regular backups, and priority email support, all hosted on SSD servers. Founded in 2009 and based in San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Birmingham, Alabama, Compose was previously known as MongoHQ before rebranding in August 2014. As of July 2015, the company operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corporation. By offering shared hosting, database management tools, and user-controlled backups, Compose aims to facilitate efficient data solutions for developers.

Realm

Seed Round in 2011
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a platform designed to streamline application development by replacing traditional databases like SQLite and Core Data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm offers a solution that enhances performance and user experience through features such as querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. The database is available on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms, allowing for memory-efficient data access via Realm objects. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc. The platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, enabling them to create applications more quickly and efficiently.

WibiData

Seed Round in 2010
WibiData is a software company that specializes in big data applications aimed at helping enterprises create personalized experiences across various channels. Founded in 2010 in San Francisco under the name Odiago by Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball, and Garrett Wu, WibiData leverages open-source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Avro, and the Kiji Project. The company is supported by several notable investors, including Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Through its innovative platform, WibiData enables organizations to effectively analyze and utilize their data for enhanced customer engagement.

RethinkDB

Seed Round in 2010
RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database management platform tailored for the realtime web. It enables developers to create scalable applications efficiently by allowing the database to continuously push updated query results to applications, eliminating the need for constant polling. RethinkDB supports JSON document storage and features a user-friendly query language that facilitates complex operations such as table joins and grouping. With a highly parallelized architecture, the platform is designed for reliability across various workloads and edge cases, providing users with live statistics and complete visibility into their production clusters. This innovative approach helps developers build realtime applications more quickly and with fewer resources.

Aster Data Systems

Angel Round in 2005
Aster Data Systems is a notable leader in big data management and analytics, specializing in solutions that enable businesses to analyze and derive value from large datasets. The company's flagship product, nCluster, is a pioneering Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehouse architecture that integrates application logic within the database engine, facilitating rapid and in-depth analysis of extensive data. Aster Data employs its proprietary SQL-MapReduce technology to optimize parallel data processing, effectively addressing the challenges associated with big data. The company serves a diverse clientele, including notable firms in various industries, and offers a range of services encompassing analytics, data loading, query performance, and support. Headquartered in San Carlos, California, Aster Data is supported by several prominent venture capital firms and influential industry figures.
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