NorthScale was founded in 2009, and in March 2010 announced $5 million in funding from Accel Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.[1]
Original officers listed were James Phillips, Steve Yen and Dustin Sallings, who were involved in the development of memcached.[2]
In May 2010, a $10 million investment led by the Mayfield Fund was announced for NorthScale, and Bob Wiederhold replaced Phillips as chief executive.[3]
Some time later in 2010, NorthScale was renamed Membase, Incorporated.[4]
CouchOne Inc. was also founded in 2009 as Relaxed, in Berkeley, California.[5] It developed and provided commercial support for the Apache CouchDB open source project, a document database.
Initial funding was $2 million, including investor Redpoint Ventures.[6]
Couchbase, Inc. was created through the merger of Membase and CouchOne in February 2011. The merged company aimed to build an easily scalable, high-performance document-oriented database system, marketed with the term NoSQL.[7]
In August 2011, a $14 million funding was led by Ignition Partners.[8][9]
In October 2011, DoCoMo Capital announced an investment of $1 million was part of that round.[10]
In August, 2013, another round of $25 million was led by Adams Street Partners.[11]
A round of $60 million in June, 2014, included new investor WestSummit.[12]
A round of $30 million in March, 2016, was reported as giving a reduced valuation to the company.[13]
Peter Finter became chief marketing officer in September 2016.[14] Matt Cain replaced Bob Wiederhold as CEO in April 2017. [15]
Recognition include the 2012 Infoworld Bossie award,[16] Dataweek 2012 award,[17] Always-On Global award,[18] VentureWire's 50 FASTTech companies
,[19] GigaOM's Structure 50 list [20] and the Gartner cool vendor award.[21]
