Board & Advisors

Advisors

‘The killer app is real-time information serving – serving information about what’s happening NOW. Businesses want to understand what consumers are doing and provide them services in the context of where they are and what they are doing NOW.’

‘Databases designed around the limitations of the disk drive have served us well for the last few decades, but the emergence of Internet-scale Web applications requires a fundamentally different approach to database architecture.’

 ‘The ubiquity of smart devices is heralding a new era of fast data where the value of applications lies in the ability to sense and respond to Internet-scale data in real time. However, it is also challenging databases to cost-effectively and reliably deliver speed at scale.’

Board of Directors

‘NEA has always sought to invest in disruptive companies that anticipate and address new market needs, and the explosion of data in various parts of the enterprise has been an important focus in recent years.’

‘Underlying every real-time ad exchange is a data management engine implementing a scalable, real-time architecture that works in unison with the proprietary algorithms of that exchange.’

‘Winning startups must do three things – solve a big problem, be revolutionary in some way and have some healthy zeros on the balance sheet.’