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Ajay Kulkarni
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Perpetual optimist.
CEO @TigerDatabase, backed by @Benchmark @NEA @IconVentures @Redpoint TigerGlobal. ex- @Microsoft x2, @MIT x3, others. he/him
- 💥 BIG NEWS!!! @TimescaleDB just raised a $110 million Series C at a $1+ billion valuation! 💰💰💰 Round led by Tiger Global, with participation from all our existing investors: @benchmark, @NEA, @Redpoint, @iconventures, and @TwoSigmaVC. tsdb.co/series-c 🐯🦄🚀💥 1/
- 💥Big news!! We’re announcing a $40 million Series B, led by @RedpointVC with participation from all existing investors: @benchmark, @NEA, @iconventures, and @TwoSigmaVC. 🐯🚀 tsdb.co/timescale-seri… 1/
- There's a database CEO out there who, and I choose this word carefully, is an online bully. He frequently turns discussions into personal attacks. And not just with peers - even with junior engineers. And he's seemingly accumulated a following of other online bullies. This is
- 💸💸💸 Today we’re announcing that we’re going all-in on cloud, making all of our enterprise features available for free, updating our software license to provide greater rights to our users, and reinforcing our commitment to the @TimescaleDB community. tsdb.co/tsl-v2 1/
- We just made a big announcement: multi-node TimescaleDB, our elastic, petabyte-scale, distributed time-series database, will be available for free. And that post is now #1 on HackerNews 🔥
- Agents are the New Developer Agents, like Claude Code, feel uncanny. My first time using it, I built a mobile web app that tracked pushups using computer vision. Just for fun, to see what it could do. One hour later (mostly its time, not mine), I had an app that just worked.
- 3.5 trillion metrics per day into a single database service. Don't let anyone fool you - no one scales Postgres farther.Scaling Postgres with @TigerDatabase: This week, we're ingesting over 3.5 trillion metrics per day into a standard database service on Tiger Cloud -- the very same infrastructure our customers use. All to power query analytics (Insights): so you can identify, understand, and
- Relationship status with @PlanetScale: complicated. Last week: throwing hands This week: shipping our open source extension We'll take the win 😅We've added support for the TimescaleDB Postgres extension. Access rolls out this week during your next scheduled maintenance window. planetscale.com/changelog/post…
- It's wild that @databricks chose to pay $1 billion (with a 200x multiple) for the slowest Postgres, @neondatabase 🧐
- how it started (1997) how it's going (2019) how it's going (2025) @michaelfreedmanhow it started (2012) how it’s going (2025)
- 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 🐯🚀 I’m so excited to share some big news with all of you: 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗦𝗤𝗟 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝗿𝗮.
- Here's the post that I've wanted to write for *years*: Developers love PostgreSQL. Here's why that's not just a cute little database trend but actually a really big deal. 😁 tsdb.co/postgresforeve…
- 🙀 1 month ago, we set an ambitious (crazy?) target for @TimescaleDB: 10+ launches in 1 month And we did it! 💪🏽 - 12 (!!!) launches in May - 5 Forge (cloud) releases - 2 DB releases - 1 Promscale release - 2 # 1s on HackerNews #AlwaysBeLaunching 🐯🚀 What did we launch? 🧵 1/












