Tembo(US)

United States - Cincinnati, Ohio

• 03/07/2024
• Series A
• $14,000,000

Tembo is the Postgres developer platform for building every data service. Our mission is to collapse the database sprawl of the modern data stack with a unified developer platform. With Tembo, developers can quickly create and deploy specialized data services using Stacks, pre-built Postgres configurations, and deployments without complex builds or additional data teams.

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Ry WalkerFounder

United Kingdom - Cincinnati, Ohio

I'm a long-time software engineer, founder, and champion of open source.

I'm currently building Tembo, a dev-first, fully-extensible, fully-managed, secure, and scalable Postgres service.

In 2022 I create OSSRank, a public ranking of open-source software and people.

In 2015 I co-founded Astronomer, one of Cincinnati's first tech unicorns.

In 2013 I co-founded Differential, a venture studio built around the open-source Meteor framework.

In the 00's I was CTO for a couple of Cincinnati-based software companies, specializing in open-source Ruby on Rails.

In the 90's I built and sold a web agency, leveraging open-source Perl and PHP.

I love nature, science, art, tennis, platform tennis, golf, basketball, fishing and indie game development.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rywalker/