From the source
It’s led by GIC.
All existing investors joined the round, Stripe made a second investment.
Georgian and Salesforce Ventures joined as new investors.
The round is for three things: Accelerate development of open source / Postgres tools.
To support our growth.
Liquidity for the employees.
Open source development # Today we're releasing Multigres v0.1 alpha .
It’s open source and self-hostable.
Postgres is hard to run at scale.
Multigres is a scalable operating system for Postgres that provides high availability and operational simplicity.
In a future release it will provide Vitess-grade horizontal scaling.
The alpha status is to signal that it’s ready to try, but not yet production-ready.
We’ll get there in a few months.
If you’re running a large Postgres workload you can apply to be a Multigres partner and help shape the direction of Multigres.
Multigres will be available on the platform when it moves out of alpha.
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