Existing backer GV helped the data storage technology provider hike its overall funding to more than $56m as it appoints a new chief executive.

US-based data programming software provider Fauna has secured $27m in funding from investors including GV, a corporate venturing subsidiary of internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet.

Venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group led the round, participating alongside Addition, CRV, Quest Ventures and private investors Tom Preston Werner and Roger Bamford.

Fauna’s distributed storage and computing software powers a serverless application programming interface (API) for data storage. It revealed the round with the appointment of Eric Berg, previously chief operating officer of…

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Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.