What is Supabase?
Supabase helps teams build and scale open-source backend platform products.
- Category
- Open-source backend platform
- Headquarters
- Singapore / remote-first
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 120-200 estimated
- Total funding
- $521M disclosed equity
- Valuation
- $5.1B last disclosed valuation
What is Supabase?
Supabase is a open-source backend platform company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore / remote-first.
Supabase builds open-source backend platform infrastructure for teams that need production software, AI, or data workflows rather than one-off prototypes. Public estimates put 2024 revenue around $16M and 2025 revenue around $27M; company revenue is not formally disclosed. Its public scale signal is 4M+ developers and 3.5M+ databases reported in 2025 coverage.
The company sits in a fast-moving market where buyers care about reliability, security, integration depth, and procurement maturity. Open-source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL. Its position is strongest when customers need a managed platform that shortens engineering time while still fitting into existing cloud, data, and developer workflows.
For sellers, Supabase is best treated as a scaled technical buyer. Engineering and product leaders influence architecture, finance and operations shape budget, and security or procurement becomes more important as contract size grows.
What does Supabase offer?
Supabase's product set centers on Postgres database, Auth, Storage.
- Postgres database· Core product
- Auth· Core product
- Storage· Core product
- Realtime· Expansion product
- Edge Functions· Expansion product
- Vector· Expansion product
How does Supabase make money?
Supabase makes money through usage, subscription, committed-capacity, and enterprise contracts depending on customer scale.
Free includes small project quotas. Pro starts at $25/project/month plus usage. Team starts at $599/month for collaboration and compliance controls, and Enterprise is custom for larger deployments, support, security, and procurement requirements.
Growth is driven by land-and-expand adoption: individual developers or small teams start with self-serve usage, then production workloads create larger commitments, security requirements, support needs, and procurement events. Enterprise customers typically pay for higher limits, private deployment patterns, governance, support, SLAs, and negotiated usage economics.
The unit economics depend on the underlying product category. Software-heavy products expand through seats and usage, while AI infrastructure and GPU-cloud businesses require disciplined capacity planning, reserved commitments, power and data-center execution, and high utilization of expensive compute assets.
Who leads Supabase?
Supabase is led by Paul Copplestone, with technical, product, and go-to-market ownership spread across the leadership team.
- Paul CopplestoneCo-founder & CEOCo-founder since 2020Leads company strategy, community, and fundraising.
- Ant WilsonCo-founder & CTOCo-founder since 2020Leads technical direction around Postgres and developer platform architecture.
- Steve ChavezEngineering / PostgREST leaderTechnical leadershipKey maintainer voice in Supabase APIs and Postgres tooling.
- Supabase product leadershipProduct leadersScale-up phaseOwns cloud, auth, storage, realtime, and enterprise roadmap.
How do you contact Supabase's leadership?
Use published company channels first. The personal addresses below are format-following examples using supabase.com; they should be verified before outreach and are not presented as confirmed personal inboxes.
first@supabase.com (format-following example, not a verified personal mailbox)How much funding has Supabase raised?
Supabase has $521M disclosed equity; its latest disclosed valuation/status is $5.1B last disclosed valuation.
Supabase's disclosed financing history is concentrated in these major events: 2020 Seed - about $6M; Sep 2021 Series A - $30M; May 2022 Series B - $80M; Sep 2024 Series C - $80M; Apr 2025 Series D - $200M at $2B valuation; Oct 2025 Series E - $120M at $5.1B valuation. The latest disclosed valuation or market status is $5.1B last disclosed valuation.
2020: Seed - about $6M. Y Combinator, Coatue, and angels back the open-source Firebase alternative. Sep 2021: Series A - $30M. The company raises capital to expand Postgres-based backend services. May 2022: Series B - $80M. Led by Felicis Ventures with Coatue and Lightspeed participating. Sep 2024: Series C - $80M. Led by Peak XV and Craft Ventures. Apr 2025: Series D - $200M at $2B valuation. Led by Accel as adoption among AI and app builders accelerates. Oct 2025: Series E - $120M at $5.1B valuation. Co-led by Accel and Peak XV, bringing total funding to about $521M.
The funding signal matters because it defines buying capacity and operating pressure. Late-stage capital usually means new hiring, platform expansion, security upgrades, finance-process maturity, and larger procurement reviews; earlier-stage profiles require tighter ROI and founder-led evaluation.
How did Supabase get here?
Supabase's path runs from founding in 2020 through product expansion and its latest financing or public-market milestone.
- Jan 2020Company foundedPaul Copplestone and Ant Wilson start Supabase.
- 2020YC and launch momentumPositioning as the open-source Firebase alternative drives early adoption.
- May 2022Series B raisedSupabase raises $80M as hosted Postgres adoption grows.
- Apr 2024OrioleDB acquiredSupabase acquires OrioleDB to invest deeper in Postgres storage.
- Apr 2025Series D raisedSupabase reaches a $2B valuation.
- Oct 2025Series E raisedSupabase raises at a $5.1B valuation.
Who are Supabase's competitors?
Supabase competes with category specialists, open-source alternatives, and larger platform vendors.
- FirebaseGoogle backend platform with database, auth, hosting, and mobile tooling.
- AppwriteOpen-source backend server and cloud for app developers.
- NeonServerless Postgres platform focused on branching and cloud databases.
- PlanetScaleManaged MySQL/Vitess database platform for developer teams.
- HasuraGraphQL and data API platform over existing databases.
Supabase — frequently asked questions
