As our friends and family know, we have danced the wonderful VC dance for a while now. As a matter of fact, we met the Sunstone and Conor teams for the first time over a year ago. During this year we've dated regularly -- and happily so -- but have still not quite been ready to make that final leap from dating to marriage.
Until now. As the interest around the NoSQL space and alternative databases has just exploded over the past 3-4 months it's been increasingly clear to us that we want to and need to accelerate. We fully believe that we're moving towards what Ben Scofield of Viget Labs describes as a "pluralistic approach to storing our data," i.e. an architecture where a single application typically works with multiple databases, each storing the datasets they're best for.
In a world where it's all about choosing the database paradigm that best fits your dataset instead of squeezing everything into the relational database, in that world we believe there's a huge opportunity for graph databases. With Sunstone and Conor on board, this investment will give us the means to pursue it.
Congratulations!
/Søren @ Inspekt
Posted by: Søren Maigaard | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:41
Congratulations Emil - a long time in the making, but it sounds like you've done it just right. Well done.
I look forward to watching the explosive growth of neo4j in this nice new 'pluralistic' world. I became a fan of polyglot programming languages a few years ago, but only this year, with your help, did I see the db-light :-)
Posted by: Craig Taverner | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:10
Congratulations Emil -- well deserved for a good product and solid vision of the future. I hope is goes really well for you and lots more people start adopting Neo4j.
Posted by: Martin Kleppmann | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:17
congra* emil - hats off you deserve this
Posted by: twitter.com/macewan | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:40
Congrats guys. You are definitely on to something.
Posted by: Todd Stavish | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 18:57
Good work, guys! An important step towards global dominance :)
Posted by: Lars Hornborg | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 22:12
Hey Emil - Congratulations on that. Your excellent performance at Tech Tour etc. payed off :-)
Let's talk soon
//Søren
Posted by: Søren Selnæs | Monday, November 02, 2009 at 10:28