Tech Company Financing Transactions
Kickfire Funding Round
Kickfire, based in Santa Clara, secured $20 million from Pinnacle Ventures, Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
7/31/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$20,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors
Pinnacle Ventures (Lead Investor) (Ken Pelowski)
Accel Partners (Peter Wagner)
Greylock Partners (Charles Chi)
Proceeds Purpose
The capital will be used to build out the sales, marketing and customer operations infrastructure to bring the Kickfire appliance to market.
Company Information
Company Status
Out of Business
Industry
Enterprise IT
Mailing Address
2055 Laurelwood Road 150
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
Phone
Website
Email Address
Not Recorded
Overview
Kickfire is an innovative company that has taken a dramatically different approach to achieving fast database query performance, developing the first easy-to-use and affordable high-performance database appliance for the MySQL market.
Profile
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Bruce Armstrong
Chief Financial Officer
Thomas Muise
Chief Technical Officer
Joseph Chamdani
President
Raj Cherabuddi
VP - Sales
Richard Nieset
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