DBOS, the developer of a cloud-native operating system, has raised $8.5 million in seed funding and launched its first product offering. The company is spearheaded by Mike Stonebraker, creator of Postgres, Matei Zahaira, co-founder and CTO of Databricks and a team of computer scientists. Its funding was led by Engine Ventures and Construct Capital.
Cambridge-based DBOS aims to simplify the way cloud applications are built, deployed and secured by running operating system services on top of a distributed database. This approach eliminates the need for containers and orchestration layers, resulting in a scalable, fault-tolerant and cyber-resilient base for building cloud-native applications.
The company has also released DBOS Cloud, a transactional serverless application development platform powered by DBOS. The product offers support for stateful functions and workflows, built-in fault tolerance, time-travel debugging, SQL-accessible observability data and self-detection and self-recovery of cyberattacks. DBOS Cloud aims to help developers build applications in days that would normally take months on conventional cloud platforms.
DBOS plans to use the funding to grow its engineering team and enhance the DBOS Cloud transactional computing platform. The company’s goal is to provide a new foundation for application development and revolutionize cloud technology.
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