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Kickfire is funded by top tier venture capital firms with proven ability to identify innovative companies destined for fast track growth and success.

Open source data warehousing appliance Accel Partners is a venture capital firm that has been dedicated for over 25 years to supporting entrepreneurs who possess the unique insight to define new categories and build world-class technology companies. These entrepreneurs have led fundamental industry transformations rather than followed predefined market trends. Accel deeply shares its entrepreneur's passion for fundamental uniqueness and their courage to be first.

This emphasis on leadership has engendered category defining companies that have reshaped their industries and in many cases created entirely new sectors. Accel-backed companies have sparked many of the most significant revolutions in technology businesses, such as: Veritas Software, RealNetworks, UUNet, Macromedia, PictureTel, Foundry Networks, Walmart.com, and many others.

Open source data warehousing appliance Greylock Partners is a private venture capital firm, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. Today, Greylock operates out of offices in the Bay Area, Boston and Israel. For over 42 years Greylock has provided equity capital and support to over 300 growth companies, many of which have gone on to become leaders in their respective industries. Of these companies, over 125 have become publicly held, while over 100 others have merged successfully with other leading companies.

Open source data warehousing appliance Mayfield Fund provides "venture capital with impact" by partnering with exceptional individuals to create industry-leading companies. The company's investment sectors include communications/wireless, consumer/media, enterprise software and semiconductors. Mayfield has over $2.7 billion under management and a team of twelve investing professionals. Since its founding in 1969, Mayfield has raised 12 funds, invested in more than 470 high-growth companies, taken more than 100 public, and more than 150 have merged or were acquired.

 Open source data warehousing appliances Pinnacle Ventures is a private venture capital fund focused on providing debt and equity financing   to early-stage companies across technology and healthcare. Pinnacle differentiates itself through the strength and diversity of its team, its creative and flexible financing alternatives and its unique approach to helping its portfolio companies achieve success.

 

 
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What People Are Saying

"For now, Kickfire is the best game in town when it comes to easy-to-deploy supercharged MySQL performance. Very cool."

Open RoadMatt Asay,
The Open Road

"We started evaluating Kickfire because of the excellent price/performance they deliver for MySQL which we use extensively. After the initial tests showed performance improvements of over 100X for some of our most complex analytical queries, we decided to purchase our first system."

Senior VP,
$400M Technology Company

"Kickfire's analytic appliance is a unique approach that brings data warehousing and BI to a mass market of users."

Sun Mark Burton,
Vice President,
MySQL Global Software Practice,
Sun Microsystems.

"Kickfire's MySQL appliance blows the doors (and price tags) off proprietary databases."

Open RoadMatt Asay,
The Open Road

"What Kickfire wants to do is drastically bring the price of high-performance database servers down - to bring data mining technology to the everyman or the everycompany, as it were, not just the fortune 500."

Tech Broiler Jason Perlow,
Blogger,
Tech Broiler

"In the global deployments of our largest customers, MySQL performance placed limitations on the volume of data we could analyze. Kickfire's MySQL Appliance delivered impressive 600X average performance improvements in our tests with much larger data volumes than we could previously support.  We just placed an order."

Research Director,
Network Management Company

"Packaging Kickfire's breakthrough SQL chip and powerful database storage engine together into a unique MySQL-based appliance will be of great interest to users for cost-effective data warehouse and BI workloads."

Sun Marten Mickos,
SVP,
Database Group,
Sun Microsystems.

"This product could turn the entire database world on its collective ear. It is a new paradigm for thinking about SQL and data warehousing and how best to utilize it."

ZDnetB. Keith Murphy,
Editor,
MySQL Magazine

"Kickfire's focus on the emerging MySQL market proposes to dramatically scale back the costs of delivering breakthrough performance that many organizations seek to keep their BI initiatives on track."

ZDnetWayne Eckerson,
Director,
Education & Research,
TDWI



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