Cloudant (YC Summer 2008)

TL;DR: Cloudant is a Y Combinator Summer 2008 startup NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…, currently acquired with a team of 51.

NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…

YC ID
284
YC Batch
Summer 2008
Status
Acquired
Team size
51
Industry
B2B, Infrastructure
YC profile
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cloudant

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Cloudant's distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing their databases on their own. We manage and distribute your data globally so you can grow more users, build more app features, and sleep more knowing we're keeping the servers up and humming. Cloudant was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2008 by three MIT physicists who at the time were moving multi-petabyte data sets around from the Large Hadron Collider. Frustrated by the available tools for managing and analyzing Big Data in their research, the founders built a distributed, fault-tolerant, globally scalable data layer on top of Apache CouchDB. The service has grown since then. T…

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Frequently asked questions

Is Cloudant a YC (Y Combinator) company?

Yes. Cloudant was funded by Y Combinator in the Summer 2008 batch. NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…

What does Cloudant do?

Cloudant's distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing their databases on their own. We manage and distribute your data globally so you can grow more users, build more a…

What YC batch was Cloudant in?

Cloudant was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2008 batch.

How big is Cloudant?

Cloudant has a team of 51 people according to Y Combinator's directory.

Is Cloudant still active?

Cloudant is currently listed as Acquired with a team of 51 in Y Combinator's directory.

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