(1) Hudson River Trading Joins Rapidly Growing Roster of Enterprise Customers; Company Acquires Falarica.io to Fuel APAC R&D and Recruiting Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, today announced a $48 million funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with additional participation by Greenspring Associates, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures and 8VC. Coming on the heels of a $30 million capital raise announced in June 2020, the round brings Yugabyte's total funding to $103 million. The funding will be used to expand Yugabyte's R&D, sales and customer functions in the EMEA and APAC markets. To support its aggressive expansion plans, Yugabyte will double its headcount in 2021.