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
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Company type | Public |
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Nasdaq: BASE | |
Industry | Software |
Founded | 2011; 13 years ago (2011) |
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Key people | Matt Cain (CEO) |
Website | www |
NorthScale 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]