What is Convex?

What is Convex?

Convex is a backend platform for full-stack TypeScript developers that bundles a reactive database, serverless functions, file storage, search, scheduling, workflows, and realtime updates. It is positioned as an easier alternative to assembling a database, backend runtime, cache, queues, and sync layer separately.

Convex was founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers Jamie Turner, James Cowling, and Sujay Jayakar. The product focuses on developer speed: developers write queries, mutations, and actions as TypeScript functions, while Convex handles state, reactivity, transactions, deployment, and synchronization to frontend clients. The company has also pushed into AI app backends, vector search, workflows, and enterprise support.

Public scale signals include a November 2025 $24 million raise and company commentary that customer base, projects, and revenue had grown more than tenfold over the prior nine months. The platform is widely discussed in the modern web and AI-app developer community, with a competitive set that includes Firebase, Supabase, AWS Amplify, PlanetScale-adjacent stacks, and newer realtime databases.

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What does Convex offer?

Convex offers a managed reactive backend platform with database, functions, search, storage, scheduling, workflow, auth integrations, and enterprise controls.

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How does Convex make money?

Convex makes money from usage and seats across Free/Starter, Professional, Business, and Enterprise plans.

Convex publishes a self-serve pricing ladder. Free/Starter is $0 plus pay-as-you-go usage for early projects; Professional is publicly listed at $25 per developer per month for startups moving into production; Business and Enterprise have a $2,500 monthly minimum and add 50+ developer capacity, SAML/SSO, SLAs, dedicated deployments, custom MSAs, and volume pricing. Starter and paid plans can exceed included resources with usage-based pricing.

The growth model is developer-led adoption that later converts to team and enterprise spend. Convex can land in prototypes, AI app experiments, internal tools, and realtime products, then expand as projects hit production scale, compliance needs, dedicated deployment requirements, or support requirements. The main economic drivers are developer seats, deployment class, storage/search/vector usage, bandwidth, functions, support, and enterprise controls.

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Who leads Convex?

Convex is led by co-founder and CEO Jamie Turner and co-founder and CTO James Cowling, with co-founder Sujay Jayakar and a team of database and infrastructure engineers.

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How do you contact Convex's leadership?

Convex publishes sales, support, community, and enterprise contact routes, but not verified personal emails for executives. Use the company contact and community paths rather than guessed personal addresses.

• Jamie TurnerCo-founder & CEOcontact via https://www.convex.dev/contact
• James CowlingCo-founder & CTOcontact via https://www.convex.dev/contact
• Convex supportSupport / communityDiscord/community via https://www.convex.dev/community

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How much funding has Convex raised?

Convex has disclosed at least about $50 million in funding: a $26 million Series A in 2022 led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $24 million 2025 round led by a16z and co-led by Spark Capital.

Convex announced a $26 million Series A in April 2022 led by Andreessen Horowitz, with a16z general partner Martin Casado joining the board. That round followed seed funding and supported the company's initial push to reinvent application backends around global state and reactive data. Forbes reported the Series A as about $25.7 million, while Convex's own announcement rounded it to $26 million.

In November 2025, Convex announced another $24 million financing led by a16z and co-led by Spark Capital, with participation from Neo Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Upscalers, and angels including Adam D'Angelo, Drew Houston, and Theo Browne. Convex did not disclose a valuation in the reviewed announcements, so valuation should be treated as undisclosed.

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How did Convex get here?

Convex turned a database-infrastructure thesis from former Dropbox engineers into a production backend platform for TypeScript and AI apps.

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Who are Convex's competitors?

Convex competes with backend-as-a-service platforms, realtime databases, serverless app platforms, and database-plus-framework stacks.

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