Database appliance company Kickfire raises $20M
July 31, 2008 | Anthony Ha
Kickfire, the maker of a database appliance that’s completely compatible with MySQL, has raised $20 million in a second round of funding. Pinnacle Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and the Mayfield Fund.
The Santa Clara, Calif. startup told VentureWire that its first product, which will analyze and report on data from a MySQL database, will hit the market in October, and will be cheaper than competing offerings from Greenplum and Teradata. Kickfire raised a $10.75 million first round two years in 2006.
Tags: co:Kickfire, inv:accel-partners, inv:greylock-partners, inv:Mayfield-Fund, inv:Pinnacle-Ventures
Anthony Ha writes about enterprise technology, cloud computing, tech policy, and random cool startups. Before joining VentureBeat in January 2008, he worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. Anthony attended Stanford University from 2001 to 2006, and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com.
