Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
(From left) Supabase CEO and co-founder Paul Copplestone and CTO and co-founder Ant Wilson
Courtesy: Supabase Inc.
Vibe coding needs infrastructure. Supabase is trying to achieve this.
The startup, which makes back-end tools for building artificial intelligence applications, said Thursday it has raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation; It’s the latest sign that venture investors are trying to pour money into every corner of the AI market, which is showing signs of growth.
Supabase’s valuation has roughly doubled since its last funding round in October; This has fueled a wave of AI-powered coding that allows developers and people without technical skills to quickly create applications and programs via simple text commands.
Co-founded by CEO Paul Copplestone, Supabase has benefited greatly from the growing popularity of Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. He said such tools are now responsible for the majority of databases on the Supabase platform, with Claude Code making the biggest contribution in 2026.
Supabase uses the popular open-source database Postgres for developers to store data, verify users’ sign-ups and logins, and build and more easily scale their applications on the same platform.
Copplestone said he was unsuccessful when he first pitched the idea to an investor in 2014. Six years later, after struggling with the scaling limits of the databases he was using on another startup, he tried again.
“I built some tools around that and released it to the world,” Copplestone said. “It started to become very popular, and at that point I decided, ‘Oh, this is the moment where I can build the startup I’ve been dreaming of.'”
The funding round was led by GIC and included Accel, Y Combinator, Craft, Felicis, Coatue, and fintech startup Stripe.
Since founding the company with CTO Ant Wilson in 2020, Copplestone has attracted more than 250,000 customers and built a staff of 350 employees. It directly targets the database services of companies such as. MongoDB And AmazonIt offers Aurora through its cloud division.
Alongside Thursday’s announcement, Copplestone also previewed a new tool called Multigres to help companies built on the Supabase platform scale “up to the size of OpenAI or even larger.”
Team photo of database startup Supabase
Courtesy: Supabase Inc.
“The product works, and I think historically there have been a lot of challenges in scaling a database from a small, small application with a single developer to the largest organizations, companies, and applications in the world,” said Arun Mathew, a partner at Accel. “Very few products do this.”
AI infrastructure startups have been a hot commodity for buyers. In May last year, data bricks acquired database startup Neon for approximately $1 billion.
Mathew describes Supabase’s growth rate as “phenomenal”.
“We have never seen a company grow at this pace before, especially at the database layer,” Mathew said. “The rushing water is currently a raging river in AI infrastructure and developer-first tools.”
WRISTWATCH: Apple’s crackdown on vibration coding
