Couchbase, Inc. is an American public (NASDAQ symbol BASE) software company that develops and provides commercial packages and support for Couchbase Server and Couchbase Lite both of which are open-source, NoSQL, multi-model, document-oriented database software packages that store JSON documents or a pure key-value database. The company has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and offices in San Francisco, Austin, Bengaluru and the United Kingdom.
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 Couchbase headquarters in April 2019 | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Nasdaq: BASE | |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Matt Cain (CEO) |
| Website | www |
History
editNorthScale was founded in 2009, and in March 2010 announced $5 million in funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.[1] Original officers listed were James Phillips, Steve Yen and Dustin Sallings, who were involved in the development of memcached.[2] In May 2010, a $10 million investment led by the Mayfield Fund was announced for NorthScale, and Bob Wiederhold replaced Phillips as chief executive.[3] Some time later in 2010, NorthScale was renamed Membase, Incorporated.[4]
CouchOne Inc. was also founded in 2009 as Relaxed, in Berkeley, California.[5] It developed and provided commercial support for the Apache CouchDB open source project, a document database. Initial funding was $2 million, including investor Redpoint Ventures.[6] Couchbase, Inc. was created through the merger of Membase and CouchOne in February 2011. The merged company aimed to build an easily scalable, high-performance document-oriented database system, marketed with the term NoSQL.[7]
In August 2011, a $14 million funding was led by Ignition Partners.[8][9] In October 2011, DoCoMo Capital announced an investment of $1 million was part of that round.[10] In August, 2013, another round of $25 million was led by Adams Street Partners.[11] A round of $60 million in June, 2014, included new investor WestSummit.[12] A round of $30 million in March, 2016, was reported as giving a reduced valuation to the company.[13] Peter Finter became chief marketing officer in September 2016.[14] Matt Cain replaced Bob Wiederhold as CEO in April 2017. [15]
Recognition include the 2012 Infoworld Bossie award,[16] Dataweek 2012 award,[17] Always-On Global award,[18] VentureWire's 50 FASTTech companies ,[19] GigaOM's Structure 50 list [20] and the Gartner cool vendor award.[21]
References
edit- ^ Om Malik (March 16, 2010). "NorthScale, a Memcached-focused Startup, Launches". Giga Om. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ "NorthScale Leadership". Company Web site. Archived from the original on March 22, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Sean Michael Kerner (May 18, 2010). "Open Source Memcached Vendor NorthScale Gets New CEO and $10 Million". Developer.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ "About Membase, Inc". Membase web site. Archived from the original on October 14, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ "Form D: Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. November 23, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ David Diaz (December 10, 2009). "Stealth Startup Relaxed Raises $2 Million From Redpoint Ventures For CouchDB Support". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Leena Rao (February 7, 2011). "NoSQL Companies CouchOne And Membase Merge To Form Couchbase". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ "Couchbase Secured $14M in Series C Financing". Finsmes Times. August 10, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ "Couchbase Scores 14m In New Funding". Network World. August 11, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ "Couchbase Receives $1M Strategic Investment from DOCOMO Capital". Finsmes Times. October 18, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Leena Rao (August 28, 2013). "Couchbase Raises $25M To Further Develop NoSQL Database And Expand Into International Markets". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Jonathan Shieber (June 26, 2014). "Couchbase Adds $60 Million As Big Data Demands Loom". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Deborah Gage (March 15, 2016). "Couchbase Takes $30 Million in Down Round Despite Customer Gains". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Sneha Nalawade (September 16, 2016). "Couchbase Announces Peter Finter as Its New Chief Marketing Officer". Martech Advisor. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- ^ Alexander J Martin (April 4, 2017). "Couchbase swaps CEO for ex-Veritas prez". The Register. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ "Couchbase Open Source Database Named Winner in 2012 InfoWorld Bossie Awards".
- ^ "Couchbase Selected as a DataWeek Award 2012 Winner".
- ^ "Couchbase Selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner".
- ^ "Couchbase Named to VentureWire's FASTech 50".
- ^ "Couchbase Named to GigaOM Structure 50 List".
- ^ "Couchbase Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Industry Analyst Firm".