Convex

About Convex

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Convex

All products by Convex reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

ConvexAI DevOps

Full-stack TypeScript platform with real-time database and serverless functions

From $25/mo8.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Convex

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Competitive Landscape

Who Convex competes with, and how they differ.

Supabase8.1/10

Postgres/SQL-based BaaS with a shared-responsibility model (developers partly manage database health) versus Convex's custom transactional document store with fully-managed reliability and function-subscription realtime that needs no separate realtime server. Both target code-first developers and are common backends behind AI coding tools (Bolt, Lovable, Cursor).

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Firebase

Google-owned NoSQL document platform with security-rules-based access control and no built-in transactional guarantees across reads/writes; Convex instead runs backend logic as ordinary TypeScript functions with all data read/written in transactions, and pushes a relational-style schema on top of its document store rather than Firebase's schema-less collections.

Xano8.0/10

No-code visual backend builder on dedicated compute, aimed at non-technical founders and no-code app builders (Bubble, FlutterFlow); Convex is code-first, TypeScript-native, and targets professional developers wiring reactive queries directly into React/Next.js apps.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Convex's history, with sources.

1. Aug 4, 2026Funding

   Series B — $57M led by Insight Partners, total funding reaches $110.5M

   Insight Partners led a $57M Series B with participation from Etna Labs and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital, bringing Convex's total disclosed funding to $110.5M as the company positions its reactive TypeScript backend platform for AI-agent-written software.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. Apr 27, 2022Funding

   Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz

   Andreessen Horowitz led Convex's Series A, with a16z partner Martin Casado joining the board. At the time Convex was positioned as a TypeScript-native backend letting frontend/serverless developers manage global application state without deep distributed-systems expertise.

   a16z.com
3. 2021Founded

   Convex founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers

   Convex was founded in 2021 by Jamie Turner (CEO), James Cowling (CTO), and Sujay Jayakar, who previously built storage and distributed-systems infrastructure at Dropbox.

   a16z.com