pgEdge today announced that it has secured strategic investments from Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, and Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), a leading investment management firm. Existing investors Rally Ventures and Sands Capital also participated in the funding. These investments bring pgEdge's total seed stage funding to $23 million, further fueling its growth and innovation in distributed PostgreSQL solutions to deliver high availability and low latency for mission-critical applications.

pgEdge, the leading company dedicated to distributed Postgres, is on a mission to make it easy for developers to build and deploy highly distributed database applications across global networks. Founded by industry veterans with decades of PostgreSQL expertise, pgEdge is headquartered in Northern Virginia. Its customers include prominent enterprises such as Bertelsmann, Qube RT, Jobot, European Parliament, and several U.S. government agencies.