TigerBeetle is building database software optimized for financial transactions
TigerBeetle, a company building a database optimized for financial transactions, like debit swipes, has raised new cash from VCs.
After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help build its payments infrastructure. At the time, Coil was using a traditional database to store and process transactions. But Greef had the insight that a specialized database could prove to be much more nimble — and powerful.