Here is a summary of the provided text in one paragraph: YugabyteDB, a cloud-native transactional database company, celebrated its first full year in the market in 2018 with significant milestones, including two major releases (1.0 and 1.1) that showcased the product's performance and correctness characteristics through benchmarking tests such as YCSB and Jepsen. The company received $16M in funding, expanded its ecosystem integrations with popular solutions like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and Presto, and published 53 blog posts covering various topics related to cloud-native database architectures. In 2019, YugabyteDB aims to accelerate the adoption of cloud native app and data architectures by releasing YSQL, a high-performance distributed SQL offering, and improving its transactional NoSQL offerings, YCQL and YEDIS, with additional feature depth. The company also plans to launch a fully managed YugabyteDB service on major public cloud platforms and engage in formal Jepsen certification.