PingCap
The Database for the Next Billion Users
Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 2015 · $270.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, California
- Employees
- 201–500
- Founded
- 2015
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- pingcap.com
- Total Funding
- $270.0M
- Last Round
- $270.0M Series DNov 2020
- Rounds
- 1
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
PingCap is a Developer Tools company based in Sunnyvale, United States, founded in 2015. It has raised $270.0M in total across 1 round, most recently a $270.0M Series D round in Nov 2020.
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Funding History
Nov 2020
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