{"id":10983,"date":"2014-06-29T23:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T23:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/30\/couchbase-secures-60m-funding-toots-own-horn-benchmark-figures\/"},"modified":"2014-06-29T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T23:32:20","slug":"couchbase-secures-60m-in-funding-toots-own-horn-with-benchmark-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/couchbase-secures-60m-in-funding-toots-own-horn-with-benchmark-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Couchbase secures $60m in funding, toots own horn with benchmark figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been a pretty good couple of weeks for Couchbase. Not only has the NoSQL database provider rounded up $60 million (&pound;35.2m) in series E funding, but has also released benchmark figures which significantly outperform the competition, including MongoDB and DataStax.<\/p>\n<p>The latest round of funding featured two new investors, WestSummit and Accel Growth Fund, along with existing venture capital investors, to bring overall figures to $115m (&pound;67.6m).<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not often that companies get to the series E funding stage. As Marc Andreessen cited earlier this month, it&rsquo;s generally accepted among venture capitalists that series A funding is to build the product and get first beta customers, while series B funding is to build the business around the product and get to revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Noted VC Fred Wilson wrote a blog post expanding on this, saying series C funding was to get to profitability so cash &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been a pretty good couple of weeks for Couchbase. Not only has the NoSQL database provider rounded up $60 million (&pound;35.2m) in series E funding, but has also released benchmark figures which significantly outperform the competition, inc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}