Cockroach Labs scuttles its way to $160m funding, $2bn valuation thanks to the database that doesn't die

Upstart hopes to do for transactional databases what Snowflake did for data warehousing

Even database companies you've never heard of might be worth a billion or two. Take Cockroach Labs, the firm behind the distributed RDMS CockroachDB, for example, which has hit gold in a $160m funding round....