PinnedWelcome to the New Database EraThe new category of cloud database services emerging — — Originally posted on Techcrunch — One of the most profound and maybe non-obvious shifts driving this is the emergence of the cloud database. Services such as Amazon S3, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, and others, have solved computing on large volumes of data, and have made it easy to store…Open Source7 min readOpen Source7 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·PinnedOrchestrating the Modern Data Platform, Venrock’s Investment into AstronomerThe backstory of our 2020 Series A lead investment into Astronomer. — — originally posted at ethanjb.com — The backstory of our 2020 Series A lead investment into Astronomer. Ten years ago, the modern enterprise stack looked quite a bit different. Teams of network admins managing data centers, running one application per server, deploying monolithic services, through waterfall processes, with staged releases managed by an entire role labeled “release manager.”Investment8 min readInvestment8 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·Pinned13 Problem Areas in Data Infrastructure to build NewCosSharing the problem areas and opportunities that could see new entrants rapidly grow A year ago, we decided to start open-sourcing our thinking around problems areas of interest, starting with 15 Problem Spaces in Developer Tools & Infrastructure We’re Excited About at Venrock. With the hope that it would spark…Data Infrastructure7 min readData Infrastructure7 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·PinnedMember-onlyThe beginning of ‘Everything as Code’Time to build infrastructure closer to how we build software. — This post was originally authored and published as a guest article for Venture Beat, see it here Engineers are great at making hard things possible. Then repeatable. Then automatable. Then run on their own. Software development has repeated this cycle over and over. We build a new capability; we make…Developer4 min readDeveloper4 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·PinnedMember-only15 Problem Spaces in Developer Tools & Infrastructure We’re Excited About at VenrockSo much of how we build and deliver software has changed, yet so much has stayed the same. UNIX, the original operating architecture that underpins our modern stack, was introduced 50 years ago. Linux, the dominant server operating system, was introduced 30 years ago. We rely on virtual machines, introduced…Venture Capital4 min readVenture Capital4 min read
Jul 20, 2022The New Database Model, Venrock & Uncorrelated’s investment into DgraphAnnouncing our seed investment into Dgraph — The Database Shift Thanks to the cloud, the amount of data being generated and stored has exploded in scale and volume. Every aspect of the enterprise is being instrumented for data so new operations are built based on that data. Pushing every company to become a data company. One of the most profound…Investment7 min readInvestment7 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·Jun 8, 2022Scaling up the data infrastructure, Venrock’s investment into MeltanoExcited to share the backstory of our seed investment into Meltano Data is transforming the Enterprise The amount of data being generated and stored has exploded in scale and volume. Every aspect of the enterprise is being instrumented for data with the goal of unlocking new capabilities and building an edge. …Open Source5 min readOpen Source5 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·Updated Feb 22, 2022Unlocking the Modern Data Infrastructure, Venrock’s investment into DecodableAnnouncing our Seed and Series A investments into Decodable — Beginnings of the real-time data enterprise Data is rapidly transforming every industry. Brick & mortar stores are now turning into micro-distribution centers through real-time inventory management. Organizations are delivering 10x customer experience building up-to-the-second 360 customer views. Complex logistics services having real-time views into operational performance are delivering more on-time than ever before. …Venture Capital4 min readVenture Capital4 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·Updated Jan 20, 2022Investment Follow-Up: Announcing Atom Computing’s Series BCongratulations to Ben, Jonathan, Rob, and the team at Atom Computing on the close of their $60M Series B, and welcome to our new friends at Third Point Ventures and Prime Movers Labs to the team! — Since announcing Atom Computing’s seed round in 2018, we thought it would be…Quantum Computing4 min readQuantum Computing4 min read
Published in Ethan Batraski’s Writings·Jan 9, 2021Building Commercial Open Source Software: Part 4 — Deployment & Business ModelBuilding a Commercial Open Source Company In our time investing and supporting open-source companies, we’ve learned several lessons about project & community growth, balancing roadmap and priorities, go-to-market strategy, considering various deployment models, and more. In the spirit of open source, we wanted to share these learnings, organized into a series of posts that we’ll be…Venture Capital4 min readVenture Capital4 min read
