(Reuters) – Software maker SingleStore said on Tuesday it had raised $116 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, propelling it to unicorn status.
The company did not disclose its exact valuation. A unicorn is a start-up that is valued at more than $1 billion.
The funding round took SingleStore’s total raise so far to $278 million and also included Sanabil Investments, Dell Technologies Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM ventures Insight Partners and GV – formerly Google Ventures.
Founded in 2011, SingleStore powers data-intensive applications and runs real-time analytics for a host of customers including Uber Technologies Inc, General Electric Co, Kellogg Co and Siemens AG.
Venture capital firms and private equity giants have continued to pour funds into technology start-ups this year despite a selloff that has roiled listed companies in the sector.
For instance, General Atlantic, Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global – some of the world’s biggest investors – have backed funding rounds of software firms SpotOn and Talos as they bet on a recovery in valuations.
Based in San Francisco, SingleStore partnered with International Business Machines Corp in April to launch SingleStoreDB – a subscription-based software that helps reduce hardware costs and quickly run data-intensive reports using a single database.
The company is led by Chief Executive Raj Verma and recently hired former Deutsche Bank executive Brad Kinnish as its finance chief.
(Reporting by Mehnaz Yasmin in Bengaluru; Editing by Aditya Soni)
