Venture Passport
Venture Passport is the podcast delivering the inside view of early-stage global markets, brought to you by TAV; the global pre-seed VC shaping the industries of tomorrow.
The show is co-hosted by two VCs, Jack Richardson, and Richard Armstrong, exploring the inner workings behind the creation of thriving tech unicorns, showcasing conversations with leading pioneers and visionaries in the global startup arena.
Venture Passport
S1E5: Nicolas Hourcard, Co-founder @ QuestDB
This week's episode is with Nic Hourcard, Co-founder & CEO of QuestDB
QuestDB is an open-source database for time-series data unlocking more performance; higher ingestion throughput, fast queries, compression, downsampling the data, and much more.
The company recently reached the 11,000-star mark on GitHub with an impressive number of monthly active databases and a 2000+ strong community on Slack.
The company participated in the first remote cohort of Y Combinator and has since announced a $12m Series A in November 2021 at an $80m valuation, led by 468 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures and a list of industry angels, including the co-founder of Reddit.
We discuss:
- The ins & outs of Y Combinator
- Battling between building bespoke features for first users and true scalability
- Fundraising in the US vs UK
- Monetising open-source propositions
- Reflecting on board leadership