# Angels of Supabase

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Mar 25, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced a 6 million dollar seed round led by Coatue, Mozilla, and Y Combinator, accompanied by over twenty technical angel investors. To guide its mission of providing an open-source alternative to Firebase, the company deliberately assembled a roster of angel backers comprising CTOs, developers, and developer advocates. The post features short interviews with several angel investors who share their career backgrounds, coding habits, and rationale for supporting the platform. Many investors highlighted the appeal of Supabase's developer ergonomics, its open-source foundation, and the advantages of utilizing Postgres directly alongside built-in authentication over proprietary NoSQL alternatives. Supabase also teased its upcoming Launch Week, during which the team plans to release one new feature daily for a week.

## Context

Following completion of Y Combinator, Supabase sought guidance from experienced developers, CTOs, and developer advocates to build an open-source Firebase alternative focused on developer experience.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase deliberately recruited over twenty technical angel investors into its Seed round and collaborated with several of them to co-author a fundraising announcement highlighting their perspectives.

## Takeaways

- Supabase raised a 6 million dollar seed round led by Coatue, Mozilla, and Y Combinator, with participation from over 20 technical angel investors.
- Investors cited Supabase's open-source architecture, built-in client authentication, and reliance on Postgres as key advantages over proprietary NoSQL alternatives.
- Supabase organized an upcoming Launch Week to release one new item every day across a single week.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

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