A couple of weeks back I had a chance to hop across the pond, spending a few days at SaaStr and the Pavilion CRO Summit in London. There were incredible speakers across the three days, but I was perhaps most excited for my next guest: Spencer Kimball, CEO and co-founder of Cockroach Labs.
Cockroach Labs has had a fascinating journey. The company began as popular open source software (with 27k+ stars on GitHub), taking database technology used at Google and making it available for the masses. They now offer proprietary self-hosted, dedicated cloud, and – as of 2022 – serverless editions.
The company is clearly onto something promising, announcing a $278 million Series F in December 2021 along with news that Cockroach Labs’ cloud business was growing at 500% year-on-year (😲).
Cockroach Labs is part of a broader wave in infrastructure tooling that’s betting big on cloud and consumption-based offerings. We’ve seen similar moves from public companies like MongoDB, Elastic, Confluent, and HashiCorp.
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