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Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database designed for global consistency and resilience. Raised $278M Series F at $5B valuation in 2022. Serverless tier launched. Competes with Google Spanner and distributed Postgres.

The most credible cloud-native NewSQL database, offering distributed ACID transactions that legacy databases cannot match at global scale.

cockroachlabs.com Operational Databases

United Statesprivate

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Total raised

$532.9M

last round series f

Headcount

501-1k

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Headquarters

New York

United States

Founded

2015

11 years active

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Private

Operational Databases

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Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Dec 16, 2021	Series F	$278M	$5B	Greenoaks
Jan 1, 2021	Series E	$160M	$2B

AI bull / bear

Bull case

CockroachDB is the fastest-growing DBMS in Gartner's latest market share quadrants, riding the most powerful secular trend in infrastructure: the collapse of Oracle's crown. Enterprises that spent decades on monolithic databases are now forced to re-architect for global scale, multi-region resilience, and cloud portability. Cockroach Labs offers the only distributed SQL database that delivers serializable ACID transactions across regions without modifying application code -- something Spanner requires Google Cloud to use and distributed Postgres forks cannot guarantee. The $278M Series F at a $5B valuation in 2022 signals deep institutional conviction, and the serverless tier lowers the adoption friction to zero: developers can start with a free cluster and scale to planetary workloads without migrating databases. As Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM cede combined share to cloud-native alternatives, Cockroach Labs sits at the narrow point where relational rigor meets elastic horizontal scale. That intersection wins.

Bear case

CockroachDB solves a real problem that most applications do not have. The vast majority of workloads require neither multi-region ACID transactions nor planet-scale resilience -- a well-tuned Postgres or MySQL instance handles them at a fraction of the cost and operational complexity. The $5B valuation from 2022 was set at peak ZIRP multiples, and no down-round has been disclosed, suggesting the company is running on that capital rather than proving market traction at that price. Meanwhile, every major cloud provider is commoditizing the distributed SQL layer: Google Spanner is now available outside GCP via Google Distributed Cloud, AWS Aurora Multi-Region gets cheaper every cycle, and Neon, Yugabyte, and Supabase offer serverless Postgres with increasingly distributed capabilities. Cockroach Labs' most dramatic growth in Gartner's chart comes from a small base -- percentage gains on tiny absolute revenue are misleading. Without a clear path to an IPO above that $5B mark, the next funding event could reset expectations hard.

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Cockroach Labs

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Spencer Kimball

Peter Mattis

Ben Darnell

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