Aiven monthly update 2022-05-12 | | | | Aiven becomes
a Triceratops | | | ¡Hola!
Aiven is both proud and humbled to announce that we have raised another $210M in Series D funding! 🎉🦀
Led by Eurazeo and joined by BlackRock as well as existing investors IVP, Atomico, Earlybird Venture Capital, World Innovation Lab and Salesforce Ventures, the round brings Aiven to a valuation of $3B.
Since our last Series C extension round in October 2021, we’ve increased our headcount by more than 65%. With the new funding, we aim to double the current number of employees in 2022 and continue our
international expansion.
And since our cast of crabs is growing like crazy, we needed a company-wide offsite to bring together more than 360 people in Barcelona, Spain!
Apart from sunbathing collaborating and waving at the drone (can you spot the inteNtional
mistake in our logo below? 😉), we enjoyed many team activities, great weather, and some delicious paella, obviously. 😎
In just one week, we successfully held the internal dev team hackathon, went sailing, built racing cars from cardboard (and safely drove them), and cleaned the local beach, to name but a few activities. Rumor has it that there might be a similar event next year on our growth agenda… So check out our careers
page and make sure you don’t miss our next Crab Week! | | | | Now that we got you hyped up, let’s move to other (just as exciting) news. | |
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It’s the event that everyone in the Apache Kafka® community was waiting for! Kafka Summit 2022 was back with a bang with over 1500 people joining the O2 location in East London for a couple of days of workshops, talks and networking. Aiven was present with a booth and a couple of talks from our Senior Software Engineer Olena Babenko and Francesco Tisiot, Developer Advocate. | | | | Open Source
Program Office at Aiven: One year later (7 min read)
Aiven's OSPO is now one year old! 🥳 A year ago, Aiven raised $100M in a series C
investment round which put the company valuation around $800M, and more recently achieved a $2B unicorn valuation having raised $210M total funding. One of the important reasons for raising that round was to increase our impact in Open Source communities.
Find out what OS Engineering Manager Josep Prat and his team have learned about setting up and running the function. | |
What is PostgreSQL®? (11 min read)
This post is your all-purpose introduction to PostgreSQL. We’ll cover a lot of questions: - What is a PostgreSQL
database?
- What does PostgreSQL do, and what's special about it?
- How does PostgreSQL work?
- How does PostgreSQL fit into a data architecture?
Join us for a look at the ins and outs of PostgreSQL. | | | | Open Source was a big theme during our Crab Week in Spain, and we were happy to see many OSPO team champions collaborating on different projects during our hackathon.
As a rough estimate, during the hackathon ~57 net new PRs were merged, ~30 existing PRs reviewed and merged, numerous issues created, considered, and closed, many new friendships made. 😊
Take a look at what else
our OSPO team cooked up last month: | | Quick hits from around the web | | | |
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