Picolo

Picolo is building decentralized storage infrastructure for blockchains and web 3. It will consist of a data sharing platform powered by nodes running a database like software with features such as complex querying, differential privacy, fine grained access control to data and audits. Two blockchains invested in us and we will be a launch partner with one of them. Picolo aims to host all blockchain data and make it available for querying. It will also have native support for data sharing between dapps and state channels. Ideally, data is encrypted, would never even leave this network and code would ‘come to it’ and perform computations without leaking any info. Picolo is an ex-Wisc, ex-Googler startup building a new database and compute platform. Picolo's mission is 'one data, one compute close to the source'. We aim to offer a firebase like service whose backend runs on multiple public clouds and on the edge at mini datacenters across the world. We also aim to host Picolo's database and compute at 5G access points in the future for maximum performance and resiliency. Some problems we are thinking about are: How should a decentralized database running over a 1000 nodes work? How should these nodes talk to each other? What if some of these nodes are malicious? Our founding team consists of two ex-Google engineers who have solid backgrounds in building scalable systems that serve billions of users every single day. We closed our first round of funding from top Silicon Valley VCs and are hiring for full time, part time and internship positions.