Redis Founder Joins Israeli Startup Redis Labs

August 24, 2015 | According to a “Geektime” report, the inventor of the Redis database, Salvatore Sanfilippo has joined the Israeli company Redis Labs. At the company, he will lead the open source development of the product, “Redis Cloud” for users in Israel and Silicon Valley. According to Sanfilippo, Redis Labs is “the only significantly sized team of Redis core experts.” Redis Labs was founded in 2011 by Ofer Bengal and Yiftach Shoolman.