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Brian Balfour says Reforge was an eight-figure, profitable company after five bootstrap years, then raised $21 million to move faster than cash flow, after a 2016 canvas he later tied to a $0-to-$30 million path.
EdgeDB grew out of MagicStack, a Toronto software consultancy that Yury Selivanov and Elvis Pranskevichus started in 2008. Years of in-house tools and a failed "Airbnb for boats" convinced them the database layer needed
SurrealDB was conceived in 2015 by London-based brothers Tobie and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock, who had spent years building SaaS products, from golf-course engagement tools to the Hire Insight candidate-assessment platform,
Rockset was founded in 2016 by former Facebook engineering director Venkat Venkataramani, Hadoop File System co-creator Dhruba Borthakur and ex-Facebook engineer Tudor Bosman, with roots in the open source RocksDB projec