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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 is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2008 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…. The founders listed are Michael Miller (Founder/Chief Scientist), Alan Hoffman (Founder/Director of Product), Adam Kocoloski (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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Cloudant

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Summer 2008
batch
51
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2008
Announced2012-01-17
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size51
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedBoston, MA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://cloudant.com

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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. The team now manages and serves mobile and web app data on behalf of thousands of developers and hundreds of customers to their users around the world. In 2014, the company was acquired by a global enterprise software & hardware vendor.

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