CedarDB has completed a €5.3 million seed investment round. The funding round is led by Amplify Partners. Additionally, several well-known angel investors are supporting the young company, including Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio, and Jordan Tigani, CEO of Motherduck.
The startup is developing a modern database system designed to unite speed, versatility, and efficiency in a single platform. The system replaces complex data stacks with a unified solution that supports various data formats – relational, graph-based, and document-based – and is suitable for both business analytics and AI applications.
CedarDB: A system for all data needs
With CedarDB, the founders aim to build a completely new database system from scratch. The system deliberately avoids individual, hyper-optimized components of existing database systems. Instead, CedarDB combines transaction processing and analytics in a PostgreSQL-compatible all-in-one solution. The Community Edition is available free of charge and can be easily deployed locally or in the cloud.
On the company’s own blog, it states:
“We are excited to work with Amplify. We believe they are the best investor in data infrastructure for a young startup like ours. We have known Amplify partners Sarah Catanzaro and Lenny Pruss for a long time. Their experience in data infrastructure will help us achieve our goal of demonstrating how our revolutionary database system can overcome decades-old barriers in data processing that have long been considered inevitable.”
Since its launch about a year ago, the team has grown from five to ten people. In addition to its headquarters in Munich, the company has also brought on its first employee in the US. Supported by the EXIST Founder Scholarship, CedarDB was able to build the technical foundation for further growth and is now planning to introduce additional features.
The funding is a key building block for the startup’s continued growth—both in terms of personnel and technology. With fresh capital and an experienced investor network behind it, CedarDB aims to expand its position in the modern data infrastructure market.
