SAN MATEO – Rockset, a serverless search and analytics company, has formally launched this month and unveiled the industry's first cloud service that runs SQL directly on raw data. Rockset offers developers and data scientists the shortest path from data to applications.
Rockset has raised $21.5 million in seed and Series A funding from Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. The Series A round was $18.5 million. Both Jerry Chen, a partner at Greylock, and Mike Vernal, a partner at Sequoia, have joined the board. The new company's advisors include Gaurav Gupta, a former product executive at Elastic and Splunk, and Peter Bailis, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University.
Former engineering leaders at Facebook, Venkat Venkataramani and Dhruba Borthakur, founded Rockset to enable developers to build data-driven applications as simply as possible and eliminate the complexity inherent in typical data infrastructures. Rockset is built by experts with decades of experience in web-scale data management and distributed systems. The team comprises engineers who built databases at Oracle, founded the Hadoop Filesystem project at Yahoo, implemented the Gmail backend at Google, and built the online data and search infrastructure at Facebook.