Ariga is helping developers define database schema as code
Summary
Ariga, an early-stage startup, wants to help by letting users define database schema as code, and greatly simplify how they interact and manage databases over time.Today the company announced a $15 million Series A along with a previously unannounced $3 million seed as the open source project gains traction and they begin taking on paying customers for the SaaS version of the product.Ariga CTO and co-founder Rotem Tamir says managing a database is hard to do and if you make a catastrophic mistake, you could lose all your data. He and co-founder and CEO Ariel Mashraki founded the company with the idea that companies have been able to reduce the complexity of managing infrastructure by defining it as code in a declarative way.They have been working to create a solution that delivers on that idea for databases. It can analyze and verify changes against policies, he said.Atlas has proven popular; Mashraki says its been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times since it launched in 2022. Users run it thousands or sometimes tens of thousands of times per day, so it appears to be solving a real pain point.By making it open source, database makers can download the program and add their own database support to Atlas, allowing the founders to support many more products than they could on their own as an early-stage startup.The company came out with Atlas Cloud, a SaaS version of the database management tool, earlier this year, and are currently working with a handful of paying customers. That means he has people from Iraq, Gaza, Germany, Australia and Brazil.Todays investment announcement was led by Tiger Global and TLV Partners with participation from unnamed angel investors.