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Nick Lavezzo (FoundationDB)

Nov 20, 2014, 11:00 PM – Nov 21, 2014, 2:00 AM (UTC)

Washington DC

Global Voice Hall, 1400 Key Blvd, Arlington, 22209

Nick Lavezzo is cofounder and COO of FoundationDB, which is an industrial strength NoSQL database with a data model similar to Google’s Spanner and F1 projects (which run AdWords). FoundationDB is the only DC startup that is angel funded by the famous Ron Conway’s SV Angel fund. FoundationDB raised $17MM Series A from west-coast firm Sutter Hill Ventures and CrunchFund.

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About this event

Nick Lavezzo is cofounder and COO of FoundationDB, which is an industrial strength NoSQL database with a data model similar to Google’s Spanner and F1 projects (which run AdWords). FoundationDB is the only DC startup that is angel funded by the famous Ron Conway’s SV Angel fund. FoundationDB also raised $5.5MM seed from Michael Walrath (founder of Right Media), and Howard Lerman (CEO of Yext), and their most recent $17MM Series A from west-coast firm Sutter Hill Ventures with additional investment from CrunchFund (which is owned by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington). Prior to FoundationDB, Nick and his cofounders built another successful startup in the DC area, Visual Sciences, which after a series of acquisitions was ultimately sold to Omniture for $394MM then to Adobe (where they are still selling their product today) Topics include: fundraising, marketing developer oriented products, building a community using social media, getting press attention, solving “impossible” problems, DCTech  

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Speaker

  • Nick Lavezzo

    FoundationDB

When

When

November 20 – 21, 2014
11:00 PM – 2:00 AM (UTC)

Where

Where

Global Voice Hall
1400 Key Blvd
Arlington, 22209

Agenda

11:00 PMNetworking and Food
12:00 AMFireside Chat
1:00 AMNetworking

Organizer

  • Mia Orantes

    Creative Analytics

    Chapter Director

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