Supabase
Singapore
Headquarters
SingaporeFounded
2020CEO / Founder
Paul CopplestoneEmployees
51-200Funding
Series D+ — $500MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.1/10Website
supabase.com
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About Supabase
Supabase provides an open-source alternative to Firebase, offering developers a complete backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL. The company was founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson and is headquartered in Singapore.
The platform combines PostgreSQL database hosting with authentication, real-time subscriptions, auto-generated APIs, file storage, and edge functions. Supabase serves developers building web and mobile applications, with customers ranging from startups to enterprises. The company positions itself as an open-source Firebase alternative, with all core components available under open-source licenses.
Supabase raised $30 million in Series A funding in December 2021 led by Felicis Ventures, following an $6 million seed round in July 2021. The company has grown to over 100 employees and reports more than 1 million developers using its platform. In 2023, Supabase launched additional enterprise features and expanded its global infrastructure with multiple regions.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Supabase competes with, and how they differ.
Google-owned NoSQL platform (Firestore/Realtime Database) with mobile-first SDKs and a generous free tier; has no native SQL and keeps data on Google's proprietary infrastructure — the exact gap Supabase was founded in 2020 to fill with an open-source, Postgres-based alternative.
Serverless Postgres specialist (acquired by Databricks for $1B in 2025) built around instant copy-on-write database branching and scale-to-zero compute billed per CU-hour; competes on the database layer alone, shipping no built-in auth, storage, or realtime services.
Reactive, TypeScript-native backend on a custom document database rather than Postgres — queries auto-update connected clients with no manual subscription setup. Trades Supabase's SQL/relational power and self-hosting option for a more opinionated, higher-lock-in programming model.
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No-code visual backend builder on dedicated compute instances, targeting non-technical founders and no-code app builders (Bubble, FlutterFlow) — versus Supabase's code-first Postgres platform aimed at professional developers and AI coding tools like Bolt, Lovable, and Cursor.
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Key milestones in Supabase's history, with sources.
- Funding
Series F — $500M at a $10B pre-money valuation
Led by GIC with all existing investors plus new investors Georgian and Salesforce Ventures participating; Supabase also previewed a new database tool, Multigres.
supabase.com - Acquisition
Acquired Triplit
Offline-first sync startup Triplit joined Supabase; co-founder Matt Linkous will expand third-party sync integrations (ElectricSQL, Zero, PowerSync).
supabase.com - Funding
Series E — $100M at a $5B pre-money valuation
Round led by Accel and Peak XV, with Figma joining as a new investor alongside existing backers YC, Coatue, Felicis, Craft, and Square Peg.
supabase.com - Funding
Series D — $200M led by Accel, $2B post-money valuation
Came seven months after Series C and brought Supabase's cumulative funding to about $398M.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Series C — $80M led by Peak XV and Craft Ventures
Brought total funding to $196M, with Avra Capital, Coatue, Felicis, and Y Combinator also participating.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquired the OrioleDB team
OrioleDB's engineers joined Supabase to build a faster, pluggable Postgres storage engine with page-level compression and reduced write-path IO.
supabase.com - Funding
Series B — $80M led by Felicis Ventures
Brought total funding to $116M; Coatue and Lightspeed also participated.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Acquired Logflare
Elixir-built logging and analytics platform Logflare joined Supabase to power log ingestion across the stack.
supabase.com - Funding
Series A — $30M led by Coatue Management
Brought total funding to $36M; Coatue partner Caryn Marooney joined the board.
supabase.com - Funding
Seed — $6M led by Coatue
Institutional seed round with Y Combinator, Mozilla, and roughly 20 angel investors participating.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Founded by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson
Founded in Singapore, building an open-source, Postgres-based alternative to Google Firebase; went through Y Combinator's S20 batch.
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