Overview
Trajectory score
68
/100TrueUp rank#947
Valuation
$5.0billion
Tech Unicorn
Last round - Dec 2021
TrueUp rank#644
Open jobs
36
TrueUp rank>1,000
Employees
500
TrueUp rank>1,000
Business
Distributed SQL database
Founded
12 years ago
2015
Company type
Private - Venture-Backed
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Cockroach Labs is a Distributed SQL database company with 36 job openings. It is currently valued at $5.0 billion as a private company. 500 people work at Cockroach Labs. The company was founded in 2015.
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Jobs
Open jobs
36
TrueUp rank>1,000
CategoriesJobs
- Engineering (Software)9
- Sales9
- Marketing & Growth7
- Customer Success3
- Product Management3
LocationsJobs
- 🇺🇸 United States26
- 🇺🇸 New York City17
- 🇮🇳 India7
- 🌎 Remote7
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom6
TechnologiesJobs
- CockroachDB36
- SQL11
- AWS8
- Google Cloud7
- Salesforce7
Financials
Valuation
$5.0billion
Tech Unicorn
Last round - Dec 2021
TrueUp rank#644
Latest secondary valuation
$2.0billion
60% from last round
Estimate as of Jul 1, 2026
Data source: Notice.co
Most recent funding
5 years ago
💸 ZIRP-era funding
Total funding
$633 million
Actual value 'created' (valuation - total funding)
+$4.4 billion
Lead Investors - Series A
Benchmark
Index VenturesValuation per employee
$10.0 million
Culture
Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
67%
90+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Better than 54% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
Spencer Kimball
79%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
People
Cockroach Labs Org Chart
Rankings and awards
Redpoint InfraRed 100
Late Stage
2026
Redpoint InfraRed 100
Late Stage
2025
Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers #200
2025
Redpoint InfraRed 100
Late Stage
2024
Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers #129
2024
Layoffs
Employee reported layoffs
Oct 2023 · 3 years ago
75 impacted15%
Open source
Open source at core
CockroachDB
Top open source projects
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