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ArangoDB Named to Accel Open100 and Tracxn Emerging Startups 2020

Leading multi-model graph database continues to see growth, passing 10,000 GitHub stargazers and a Four-time Leader in G2 Crowd’s Graph Database category

San Francisco and Cologne, Germany – November 12, 2020 – ArangoDB, the leading open source multi-model graph database, today announced it has been named to Accel’s inaugural Open100 list, as well as selected by Tracxn as a ‘Minicorn’ on its Emerging Startups 2020: Database Technology list.

The Open100 is a collection of the fastest-growing start-ups of significance in open source as recognized by Accel, a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days though all phases of private company growth. Companies on the Open100 list are measured by community growth, commercial evolution, and innovative approaches to driving OSS adoption in new markets.

Tracxn is one of the world’s largest platforms for tracking startups and private companies. Its Emerging Startups are a handpicked selection of high-growth and high-potential companies, founded since 2013, that are making an impact in the new-age sectors. The companies that make the cut are ones that show promising performance on multiple parameters, such as market size, investment by marquee investors, execution excellence, and future growth prospects.

These recognitions come on top of a momentous year for ArangoDB, whose other recent accolades include:

“We are honored and proud to be recognized by Accel in its inaugural Open100 list,” said Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of ArangoDB. “As 2020 has brought an unprecedented level of global uncertainty, the ability for businesses to adapt quickly is more important than ever. With the flexibility of a multi-model database like ArangoDB, organizations can easily work with any data model at any scale — minimizing complexity for developers, and empowering them to respond to customer needs quicker.”

ArangoDB is the leading open source multi-model graph database. With more than 10.5M downloads worldwide, it is trusted by leading organizations such as Barclays, RE/MAX, Mentor, OpenText, Refinitiv, as well as Pl@ntNet, one of the largest citizen science observatories in the world with 500,000 daily users.

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About Arango

Arango delivers the Contextual AI Data Infrastructure that forms a unified System of Context, helping enterprises build AI they can trust, run at scale, and achieve better economics. With Arango, teams get the trusted data foundation needed to deliver explainable, accurate outcomes grounded in real business context, so AI decisions are transparent and reliable. As AI initiatives grow, Arango enables organizations to deploy with confidence, scaling across multimodel data without adding complexity. By unifying graph, vector, document, key-value, and search in a single platform, Arango helps shift resources from integration to innovation — freeing teams to focus on building what matters most.

Trusted by NVIDIA, HPE, the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Air Force, NIH, Siemens, Synopsys, and Articul8, Arango powers enterprise AI with context, confidence, and scale. Arango is a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program. Learn more at arango.ai, LinkedIn, and G2.

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