About Citus Data
Citus Data scales out PostgreSQL, taking relational power further for real-time applications. The CitusDB database offers a unique combination of massive parallelism, real-time reads/writes, and rich PostgreSQL expressiveness including native support for JSON data. The result is an extensible distributed database with an open ecosystem that powers interactive analytics and operational workloads -- making it simple for organizations to ingest, explore and aggregate billions of events on the fly.
Based in San Francisco, Citus Data is a Y Combinator alumnus and is backed by investors that include Data Collective, Bullpen Capital, and SV Angel. The CitusDB database is used by enterprises across multiple verticals, including e-commerce, retail, security, ad-tech, and mobile analytics, and is available for download from the company’s website at www.citusdata.com.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$13.3M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Umur Cubukcu
Co-founder and CEO of Citus Data. Met co-founders at Stanford graduate school. Previously at Boston Consulting Group. Citus Data was acquired by Microsoft in 2019.
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Ozgun Erdogan
Co-founder and CTO of Citus Data. Met co-founders at Stanford graduate school. Previously an engineer at Amazon. Post-acquisition, worked at Microsoft on Citus/Postgres.
LinkedInSumedh Pathak
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Citus Data. Met co-founders at Stanford graduate school. Previously an engineer at Amazon. Post-acquisition, joined Microsoft.
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.