Built by the people who've lived this problem
The team behind SIXTA built database monitoring at Percona, VividCortex, and SolarWinds — then reunited to build what comes next. We've been the ones paged at 3am. We built SIXTA because we know what the next generation of database operations looks like.
Every database team we've worked with has the same problem. They're drowning in alerts, dashboards, and monitoring tools that tell them something is wrong without telling them what is wrong. The investigation process is manual, repetitive, and dependent on whoever happens to know the system best.
We've been on both sides of this. As DBAs responding to incidents at Percona. As engineers building the monitoring tools at VividCortex. As the team that ran database products at SolarWinds after the acquisition. Every member of the founding team has worked together before — we know each other's strengths, and we know this domain inside out.
That gap is where SIXTA lives. We're building an autonomous agent that does the diagnostic work your best DBA does, but faster, at 3am, without burning out. It starts by observing. It learns your specific environment. And over time, as it earns your trust, it takes action on your behalf.
We're not trying to replace DBAs. We're trying to give them their time back.
Ewen Fortune
25 years in database operations. Early employee at Percona. Early employee at VividCortex (acquired by SolarWinds). Product manager for database monitoring at SolarWinds. Ewen has been building, selling, and using database tools for his entire career.
Andrew Morgan
Engineering leadership across RKG, VividCortex, and SolarWinds. Built and operated multi-shard MySQL systems handling hundreds of millions of rows. Andrew leads the agent platform, data pipeline, and AI infrastructure that powers SIXTA.
Lori Gagnon
6+ years in database and infrastructure software across VividCortex and SolarWinds. Lori leads SIXTA's sales, partnerships, and customer relationships — translating complex technical products into enterprise revenue.
Nitay Joffe
Built data infrastructure at Facebook. Core contributor to Apache HBase. Founded ActionIQ and scaled it as CTO. Nitay brings deep expertise in building data platforms that operate at massive scale.
Andy Ellicott
20 years launching database companies. Head of Marketing & Product Management at Vertica, go-to-market roles at VoltDB, Cloudant/IBM, and DBOS. Andy brings deep expertise in how database products find and win their markets.
Christian Bilien
Led data strategy and operations at one of Europe's largest financial institutions. Christian brings the enterprise buyer's perspective and deep understanding of what data teams need at scale.
The leading early-stage investor in enterprise infrastructure and developer tools. Portfolio includes PagerDuty, Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and Tailscale. Founded by the co-founder of Heroku, Heavybit has helped technical founders build category-defining companies since 2013.
Seed-stage fund focused on modern infrastructure software, founded by Alex Benik after 22 years investing in infrastructure and security at Battery Ventures. Previous investments include Guardicore, Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), Opsgenie, and Nobl9.
The world's leading open source database company, trusted by thousands of enterprises globally for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Percona's strategic investment in SIXTA reflects deep alignment between SIXTA's AI-driven approach and Percona's 18-year mission to make databases run better.
Also backed by Baron Schwartz — founder of VividCortex (acquired by SolarWinds) and author of High Performance MySQL. Baron built the database monitoring company where the SIXTA founding team first worked together.
Pre-seed funding
Raised pre-seed round from Heavybit, Encoded Ventures, Percona, and Baron Schwartz to build the SIXTA agent platform.
Design partners
Working with design partners across enterprise scale to validate the agent model in production database environments.
Commercial launch
General availability of the SIXTA platform. Connect → Learn → Act.
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