Founded in 2015, PingCAP was born when three talented software engineers decided to build a new database system that was more scalable and reliable than MySQL. What they didn’t know then is just how popular their creation would become.

With over 34,000 GitHub stars and a growing community of contributors, PingCAP’s flagship product, TiDB, is one of the world’s most adopted open-source, distributed SQL databases. At its core, TiDB is an advanced distributed database for building modern applications as relentlessly elastic, versatile, and reliable as Titanium (Ti). World-renowned organizations such as Block, Pinterest, and Catalyst trust TiDB to handle their business-critical workloads while freeing developers to build more features faster.

As PingCAP continues to chart a course for TiDB, it’s partnered with such leading firms as Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital, and others to help realize its mission: empower developers everywhere to innovate with speed, agility, and scale.