About Juicedata Inc.
Juicedata was founded in April 2017, and our flagship product, JuiceFS, is a high-performance distributed file system designed specifically for cloud environments. In October 2017, we launched JuiceFS Cloud Service, offering enterprises a fully-managed subscription-based file storage service. We serve nearly a hundred famous technology companies, such as MiniMax, ModelBest, Xiaohongshu, Momenta, Metabit Trading, Lepton AI, BentoML, and Diffus.
In January 2021, JuiceFS Community Edition was open sourced. Currently, our users span across more than 50 countries, with an increasing number of users sharing their experiences and use cases, joining our community roster.
Our team consists of senior architects, engineers, and solution experts with years of experience in the field of distributed systems. They previously worked in renowned high-tech companies such as Meta, Databricks, Alibaba, NetEase, Xiaohongshu, and Douban.
At its inception, Juicedata received joint investment from China Growth Capital and Foothill Ventures.
Mission and Vision
Storage does not mean expensive hardware and complex maintenance work. Juicedata is committed to empowering every enterprise to easily tackle the challenges of massive data and high-performance workloads.
Products and Services
About Founders
Graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree. Douban's early employees, during the 6 years of Douban, were responsible for the Douban infrastructure, developed the earliest open-source Key-Value storage Beansdb, and DPark (Python clone of Spark), and served as Apache Spark PMC. In 2013, he went to the Meta US headquarters to do HDFS research and development. In 2014, he joined Databricks, the world's leading big data computing service provider, as an early engineer, responsible for the research and development in big data computing and storage, helping Spark SQL achieve hundreds of times of performance improvement during this time.
Graduated from Xidian University. During his master's degree at Beihang University, he joined the Maxthon browser as an early engineer. In 2008, as a founding employee, he joined a non-profit organization named “1 kg more” and creatively combined the backpacking and rural education support to build an online community. This project won the Austrian Prix Arts Digital Community Gold Award and was the first Chinese project to receive the award. In 2010, he joined Douban and worked as Tech Lead. In 2014, he founded the O2O car service brand Kung Fu Car Wash. He served as the CEO to lead the team to complete two rounds of financing. In 2017, joined Juicedata to start a new pioneering journey.
Investor Testimonials
Data is the foundation of AI, and one of the top challenges for today's businesses is how to deal with larger, more dimensional, faster-growing data. Juicedata's technological innovations in data storage make storage management of different data types at the enterprise-class very easy, while significantly reducing overall storage costs. Prior to founding Juicedata, Davies had more than a decade of technical expertise and extensive practical experience in big data computing and storage. We are pleased to participate in support of Juicedata when it was founded, and expect Juicedata to bring best practices of advanced distributed storage management to more companies.
An increasing number of companies realized that data is the core asset and competitiveness of an enterprise. How to effectively collect, access, and manage the rapidly growing data becomes a new challenge. Juicedata's technology and product innovations better balance the management efficiency and cost of large-scale data storage, making it an ideal solution for building data lakes on the cloud. We are excited to help Juicedata bring innovative technologies and products to more companies to help them build a more efficient big data platform.
