May 5th, 2013

6 Experts on Speeding Up Data

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Speed. That’s what it’s all about these days. The problem: it’s still more effective to use FedEx than trying to squeeze a data load across a network. It’s an absurd reality when it requires a plane to move data from one place to another.

It’s not necessary to move terabytes of data all day, all night. Moving hard drives across the continent for a feature film is different from… → Read More

November 14th, 2012

Intel Capital And Red Hat Invest In 10gen, Bringing Total To $81M For The NoSQL Database Company

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Intel Capital and Red Hat have invested in 10Gen bringing the total raised to $76 million for the company. 10Gen is the sponsor for MongoDB, the popular open source NoSQL database. → Read More

September 18th, 2012

MongoDB Maker 10Gen Closes Undisclosed Round From U.S. Intelligence Investors

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10gen, the sponsor company of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announced undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm that invests in technologies deemed beneficial to the U.S. intelligence community. The typical investment from In-Q-Tel is rumored to be between $1 million and $3 million. → Read More

May 29th, 2012

MongoDB Developer 10gen Raises $42 Million Round Led By New Enterprise Associates

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10gen, the company behind the increasingly popular NoSQL database MongoDB today announced that it has secured a new $42 million financing round let by New Enterprise Associates. This round also includes participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures. 10gen says that it plans to use the financing to “invest in product development for… → Read More

September 12th, 2011

Sequoia Leads $20 Million Round In MongoDB Big Data Database Provider 10gen

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10gen, a company which offers enterprises a big data database built off of MongoDB, has raised $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million.

Similar to the way Cloudera commercializes Apache Hadoop, 10gen offers a… → Read More

May 22nd, 2011

(Founder Stories) Fmr. DoubleClick CEO, Kevin Ryan "We Lost 70% Of Our Clients" (TCTV)

Former DoubleClick CEO, Kevin Ryan led the company through a period of explosive growth in the late ’90′s. He took the ad-targeting company from a handful of employees to more than 2,000 in just 4 years before selling to Google for $3 billion. However, as Ryan discusses in this episode of Founder Stories with Chris Dixon, the dot.com bust threatened to wash it all away.

Ryan says during the… → Read More