pgEdge, Inc., a company dedicated to distributed PostgreSQL, has announced a $10 million investment to bolster its growth. This funding round is led by Rally Ventures, with additional support from existing investors Sands Capital Ventures and Grotech Ventures. The infusion of capital is expected to accelerate pgEdge’s efforts to enhance its distributed Postgres technology.

In addition to the investment round, pgEdge is announcing that Ben Fried, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Google, is joining the pgEdge Board of Directors. Fried brings a wealth of experience from his 14-year tenure at Google, where he oversaw the creation and deployment of technologies that power Google’s global enterprise operations. Prior to his role at Google, Fried spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley, where he was the architect of the firm’s web technology platform and led teams responsible for software development infrastructure and business intelligence.

Phillip Merrick, co-founder and CEO of pgEdge, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership with Rally Ventures and the addition of Fried to the board: “We are pleased to welcome Rally Ventures and Ben Fried to pgEdge. Their investment and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to scale our operations. pgEdge’s strong revenue growth and the onboarding of cutting-edge SaaS and enterprise customers such as the European Parliament, Jobot, Enquire.ai, Qube RT and Kobold Metals underscore our momentum in the market.”

pgEdge remains the only fully distributed PostgreSQL database that is both open-source and entirely based on standard PostgreSQL.