Aerospike Closes $109 Million in Funding From Sumeru

<div class&equals;"subscriber-preview">&NewLine;<p><strong>MOUNTAIN VIEW<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Aerospike&comma; Inc&period; has closed a &dollar;109 million growth investment from Sumeru Equity Partners with additional investment from existing investor Alsop Louie Partners&period; This latest investment signals a validation of the company’s product strength and business performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscriber-preview">&NewLine;<p>The investment accelerates innovation and go-to-market capabilities for Aerospike’s core transaction&comma; analytics&comma; and AI solutions&comma; including <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;XvIioV7OsrWkDwqJb2tWCOy8YLQS5Y5OE33MJUOMnx4-MDS4WblUb8a1C6bl7j4d53&lowbar;SnIyqjyOmLKUHWORLq08VHNVgmNGibKrKT&lowbar;iHvF2jUjA4S96wgXH7Cvcgcp0b" rel&equals;"nofollow">vector<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;WSG8KtiH46S1rB-bluXlaP1meaBUXXMg5W712NeHEh&lowbar;vMx2M0rVBHugneb0NZWaNkTJFs1o2dFXWrWUXHaWgF8YBA2otVLANxdgBjxBkuww&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">graph<&sol;a> databases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscriber-only">&NewLine;<p>Aerospike powers many of the largest transactional and machine learning &lpar;AI&sol;ML&rpar; applications at global enterprises&comma; including <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;Tj9xCERz4nPv0fWFd7giTTUwg42aRd4hpkxy05PXzESAo6cLn7c4yeE30vea5511McVM45G8IHA-RtC2Wa44ADjxn&lowbar;YjtOeMIDYUbAnGoiY&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">Adobe<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;RdD0Y2YnCJAKZ44888kq8QhydoSJyM&lowbar;MBFopT0uJz6s2NeMSpn81ynOT1-4CPy9Z9ifQSi1NsufpX0Psi&lowbar;fBQprxLiQHMudetm3vo-7kaZqXI0utfUWqt&lowbar;qH3SSTXxMSFq2vg2mTlD9ri2&lowbar;TBfwyH61FzOZYy1AZUD4y6mRz-B4&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">AppsFlyer<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;Z&lowbar;WrLD3wXaTAiLukQlje1BVyJ8J3IoTDoH4NuoVswP2dUI0AWGXxrTBGlUChr3b473AGuQfQ2qkr0zX3P7QkABkj-sk46ZumjtcZR&lowbar;iMMhFPmADUY1mEVDJE&fjlig;KN0MHYTYidE&lowbar;tmB6zLOYsF8nNUJK89wqTZ5aCDuVeVA7S1-EU&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">Barclays<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;KkB&lowbar;&lowbar;m-nLTrPYXxChFq9dmnosTq6Z&lowbar;nbpt6zhv2rgRSjwFEbHUZL2E&lowbar;Wn&lowbar;aAhwbkKoZfXZxTjUK&lowbar;K6O8rvKIFoZI12kjFKqPdb7u9jO1sH17y1W59OCDetdfLg9pRSVTAOxmP24g4VDd4dprRDlEA4m8Od10AN6HJPgeBwBuHCP-CSMOlyXrzMfEcPLvziJl" rel&equals;"nofollow">Flipkart<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;rSXHmOqyZXvRmylARbq5blHdsS4gc32Y-vLLRgRi8Zes4GpSOrmlD0nj0XR6&lowbar;jUOhQfOGPKqOWcn8EzaPt6Axe8vIgZg2&lowbar;uR50FDXEipoWp4x4A4PxeRC-NhGplq4xsK8VfNGG5gHSNZWFQSTt8h-XQX1w25J51ykyGLaucpX9X2RhPgMOmU4AXt0Qmq0UeE" rel&equals;"nofollow">Myntra<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;dvqynTER3rnmjdPJTk0naTvILx5rzdOk0GgmgILXtYvhRftc3FC74Lrfa0QGstwBNDRVZw75NpTFD2psbsGpsDbaVFK0-Zj5dUqZGMHvszs&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">PayPal<&sol;a>&comma; and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;lAeGjeMjmZXllm9Y-W32pbktULPNh6ceqRjci0Qxp4h9RLbjCd74BLSPfoYi10rK2FQ0hJS-5w6wAtWDf3CtBBwMP6NiCGpDetgAngvUzoIUxlOFOo04Zg419xaDBDEeiYgTlKn&lowbar;xBI5C8ONG0nizW0HZfH6Aizvf73RTQ481X4&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">Riskified<&sol;a>&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;3cvwiC8XlHNYoQrwTyaKcY-tTXAIJFM0w8Tz6jsySYYLgH8JhL7AUjkPKX2dZqNghMRiPa1GtHggbAFaCIRrWnxeOk9eps44jyKk8UoVJ9A&equals;" rel&equals;"nofollow">Aerospike<&sol;a> enables organizations to feed AI&sol;ML systems high volumes of real-time data faster and at significantly lower cost than other database providers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscriber-only">&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Aerospike database is purpose-built for unprecedented scale&comma; the highest performance&comma; and the lowest latency&comma; which is why the explosion of real-time data has fueled our business momentum&period; Quite simply&comma; we were made for this challenge&comma;” said Subbu Iyer&comma; CEO of Aerospike&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;AI is disrupting every industry and is fueling an insatiable demand for data&period; The promise of the AI era requires new infrastructure that can harness more data in real time&period; As AI applications demand context&comma; we offer the only production-level vector solution that delivers consistent accuracy at scale on significantly less infrastructure than anyone else&period; We are elated to partner with Sumeru on our next phase of growth as we seek to drive ongoing innovation and investment in our products&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscriber-only">&NewLine;<p>Sumeru provides growth capital&comma; scaling partnership&comma; and operating expertise to leading enterprise software companies&period; The firm has invested over &dollar;3 billion across its history and partners with founders and management teams to scale their businesses by prioritizing organic growth levers in product leadership&comma; go-to-market acceleration&comma; and growth culture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"subscriber-only">&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;AI is transforming the economy and presents new opportunities for growth and innovation&period; Aerospike&comma; with its impressive customer base and performance advantage at scale&comma; is uniquely positioned to become a foundational element for the next generation of real-time AI applications&comma;” said George Kadifa&comma; Sumeru Co-Founder and Managing Director&comma; who will also join the board as part of the transaction&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We were impressed by Aerospike’s product leadership and its growing installed base of AI&sol;ML applications operating across fraud detection&comma; customer recommendation engines&comma; digital payments infrastructure&comma; and other mission-critical use cases where precision and low latency matter&period; Our team looks forward to partnering with Subbu and the company as it expands its product suite and go-to-market capabilities in the next phase of its scaling journey&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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