Docomo Capital, the corporate venturing unit of Japan-based phone operator NTT, has invested $1m in Couchbase, a US-based database company, as part of its $15m series C round.
Couchbase has also signed a customer relationship with Docomo Innovations to develop and deploy mobile services using Couchbase’s NoSQL database software.
Eisuke Miki, executive president of Docomo Capital, said: “We are increasingly convinced that NoSQL database technology is disrupting the database industry and that it will be an increasingly important part of…