PingCap

PingCap is a developer tools company in Sunnyvale, United States, founded in 2015. It has raised $270.0M across 1 round, most recently a $270.0M Series D in November 2020.

The Database for the Next Billion Users

Employees
201–500
Founded
2015
Business Model
B2B
Total Funding
$270.0M
Last Round
$270.0M Series DNov 2020
Rounds
1

Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.

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About

Founded in 2015 by three infrastructure engineers, PingCAP is the company behind TiDB—one of the most popular open-source distributed SQL databases in the world with over 33,000 GitHub stars. TiDB offers MySQL compatibility combined with horizontal scalability and strong consistency, making it suitable for financial services, e-commerce, and internet-scale workloads. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with significant operations in Beijing, China. TiKV, TiDB's key-value storage layer, is a CNCF Graduated project. PingCAP has approximately 430–600 employees across 5 continents and offers both open-source community editions and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed cloud database service.

Summary

It lists 201–500 employees. It has raised $270.0M in total across 1 round, most recently a $270.0M Series D round in Nov 2020. Investors include GGV Capital, 5Y Capital and TrustBridge Partners.

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Funding History

Data from Indexed.vcUpdated
Series DSeries DNov 2020
$270.0M

Investors

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