SurrealDB this week closed a $20 million funding round led by FirstMark and Georgian with participation from Crew Capital and Alumni Ventures, bringing the 32-person, London-based startup’s total raised to $26 million.

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Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together, ranging from tools to let golf courses measure “golfer engagement” to online platforms designed to assess job candidates. While the systems they built had wildly different functions, the unifying thread running through all of them was a dependence on databases — databases that could allow the systems to grow while remaining performant.