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Funding and backers
Total raised
$22.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$4.2M
Venture round · Feb 2025 · 20 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Grotech Ventures, Rally Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
20 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
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a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 12
On the Hacker News front page Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time · 154 points
Sep 11, 2025
On the Hacker News front page PgEdge Goes Open Source · 126 points
Feb 13, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $4.2M · SEC Form D
Aug 16, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $18.5M · SEC Form D
Mar 7, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Multi-Active Postgres at the Edge
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2025 | $4.2M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Aug 2024 | $18.5M | — | SEC Form D |
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| Legal entity | pgEdge, Inc. | SEC Form D |
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Phillip MerrickExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Mahsa DornajafiExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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News
The Long Road to Bottomless Postgres
Every approach to bottomless Postgres makes different trade-offs. A technical survey of Neon, pg_mooncake, pg_tier, pg_lake, and the new pgEdge ColdFront.
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Split Personality
Postgres 19 adds SPLIT PARTITION and MERGE PARTITIONS to ALTER TABLE. One statement replaces a five-step migration process, but the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock has teeth.
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Checksums For All
Data checksums protect against silent hardware corruption... but enabling them always required taking Postgres offline. Postgres 19 fixes that once and for all. Shaun Thomas discusses it in the latest PG Phriday.
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pgEdge Announces ColdFront for PostgreSQL, Seamlessly Uniting AI, Analytical and OLTP Workloads
pgEdge ColdFront is a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL.
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pgEdge Introduces ColdFront for PostgreSQL, Offering Read and Write Access to Hot and Cold Storage
pgEdge, a leading open source enterprise Postgres company, is launching pgEdge ColdFront, a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL. Unlike other alternatives, ColdFront
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pgEdge Introduces ColdFront for PostgreSQL with Transparent Data Tiering - Daily AI Brief
pgEdge has announced ColdFront, a transparent data tiering solution for PostgreSQL that integrates AI, analytical, and OLTP workloads. The system automatically moves older data to Apache Iceberg storage while keeping it fully writable through the same Pos
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pgEdge Announces ColdFront for PostgreSQL, Seamlessly Uniting AI, Analytical and OLTP Workloads - AOL
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time
Postgres 19 brings native temporal table support. Shaun Thomas covers WITHOUT OVERLAPS, FOR PORTION OF, and temporal foreign keys - and what's still missing.
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints
Postgres 19 brings plan advice: the query hints the Postgres community held off on for 15 years. Shaun Thomas covers the 15-year debate, pg_plan_advice, pg_stash_advice, and how to use them.
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Why Postgres Lacks Transparent Data Encryption
Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL all ship Transparent Data Encryption. Postgres doesn't... yet the mailing list threads go back to 2016. Here's the full history: five implementations, four remaining, zero in community PostgreSQL, and why the debate hasn't cl
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People

Phillip Merrick
Executive Officer, Director

Mahsa Dornajafi
Executive Officer

Benjamin Fried
Director

Denis Lussier
Director

Gene Riechers
Director

Kristin Muhlner
Director
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Countries
1
Alexandria
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff

Grotech Ventures
Rally Ventures 



