ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — pgEdge, Inc., the industry leader in distributed PostgreSQL solutions, today announced that it has secured strategic investments from Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, and Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), a leading investment management firm. Existing investors Rally Ventures and Sands Capital also participated in the funding. These investments bring pgEdge’s total seed stage funding to $23 million, further fueling its growth and innovation in distributed PostgreSQL solutions to deliver high availability and low latency for mission-critical applications.
“pgEdge’s capability to provide geo-distributed PostgreSQL databases at or near the network edge for low data latency and high availability is highly complementary with how Akamai enables organizations to deploy stateful applications at the network edge on its distributed cloud,” said Michael Merideth, Chief Architect, Office of the CTO, Akamai.
“QRT was an early customer of pgEdge and we are excited to further cement our relationship with this investment,” said Nick Harris, CTO of QRT.
“These investments are a terrific validation of the value of pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL,” said Phillip Merrick, Co-Founder and CEO of pgEdge. “We are delighted to see QRT strengthen their partnership with us, and equally excited to collaborate with Akamai on advanced solutions in edge computing and edge AI.”
pgEdge is the only fully distributed PostgreSQL database that is both open (source available) and entirely based on standard PostgreSQL. According to the 2024 Stack Overflow survey, PostgreSQL remains the top database choice among developers. pgEdge’s multi-master (active-active) replication technology, designed to operate across geographic regions and multi-cloud environments, delivers high availability and significantly reduced data latency for edge computing and edge AI applications.
About pgEdge
pgEdge, the leading company dedicated to distributed Postgres, is on a mission to make it easy for developers to build and deploy highly distributed database applications across global networks. Founded by industry veterans with decades of PostgreSQL expertise, pgEdge is headquartered in Northern Virginia. Its customers include prominent enterprises such as Bertelsmann, Qube RT, Jobot, European Parliament, and several U.S. government agencies. pgEdge’s investors include Rally Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Sand Hill East, Akamai Technologies, Inc. and Qube Research & Technologies. Learn more at pgedge.com and pgedge.com/blog or follow pgEdge on LinkedIn or X.
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