The San Francisco Compute Company
Building a marketplace to buy and sell short-term contracts on compute/GPU hours
First Investment: 2016
Fauna’s engineers saw the need for a new kind of distributed database — one that would allow developers of retail, gaming, or SaaS applications to store data in the form of human-readable JSON documents but query them like a relational database. They’ve built the world’s first “document-relational” database, one that’s delivered as a cloud API and accessible via HTTPS, requiring no dedicated servers. Fauna is compliant with all modern standards for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID).
