Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs, the developer of the distributed SQL database CockroachDB, has raised $633 million in total funding, reaching a $5 billion valuation in December 2021. Founded in 2015 by Benjamin Darnell, Peter Mattis, and Spencer Kimball, the company’s latest Series F round secured $278 million, led by Greenoaks with participation from Altimeter Capital, Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Coatue. Cockroach Labs builds cloud-native, PostgreSQL-compatible databases designed for zero downtime, global scalability, and fault tolerance, serving enterprises with mission-critical data infrastructure solutions worldwide.