We last reported on Riptano’s launch in April – and just a few months later the company has announced they already raised a tidy $2.7MM in a Series A.

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, while Sequoia Capital and Jason Calacanis also got in on the action.  John Vrionis of Lightspeed Venture Partners will join Riptano’s board.  The company said they will use the cash to hire developers and further build out their business team to better serve their customers.

Plots for world domination typically fail because the plots themselves just aren’t scalable. But with the launch of Facebook’s Open Graph this week, there’s no doubt that they have some killer talent helping them scale the platform to own the rest of the web.

What you may not know, is that part of Facebook’s scaling effort has involved their use of the Apache Cassandra open source database. Other large sites including Twitter and Digg have made use of the open source technology, and the list keeps growing.