Cologne, Germany – February 10, 2015 – ArangoDB announced today that the company has recently secured €1.85 million ($2.1m) funding from Machao Holding AG and an undisclosed investor to boost ArangoDB’s presence in the database market.

ArangoDB is using the private equity investment to accelerate product and business development, to drive open source community growth, to meet growing global demand and to expand its U.S. and international activities.

When asked about his company’s strategy, Claudius Weinberger, CEO of ArangoDB, said: ”With these activities, we are advancing our company’s vision to make distributed database handling easier, more convenient and more reliable. This includes a seamless integration into cluster and data-center operating systems like Mesosphere and Docker Swarm.”

In addition, ArangoDB is complementing its unique native multi-model approach by new supported data models. Also it is expanding its built-in Microservice Framework Foxx to streamline the development cycle of applications. Furthermore, it is planned to strengthen the business support around ArangoDB, in order to further grow the successful commercial efforts.