# Supabase $30m Series A

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Oct 28, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced a $30 million Series A funding round led by Coatue, bringing its total funding to $36 million. The company aims to provide an open source alternative to Firebase while addressing the scalability limitations typical of abstracted database platforms. Rather than building a compatibility layer, Supabase provisions a full PostgreSQL database for every project alongside integrated authentication, storage, RESTful APIs, and realtime data streaming. Platform features rely directly on core PostgreSQL primitives, including Row Level Security policies, database triggers, and logical replication streams. Funding will support long-term development of a cloud-native PostgreSQL platform offering database branching, distributed read-write nodes, scalable storage, and ephemeral compute that scales down to zero.

## Context

While platforms like Firebase offer rapid application development tools, they suffer from scalability constraints, whereas traditional PostgreSQL lacks modern cloud-native capabilities like automatic scaling and usage-based ephemeral compute.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase provisions a full, unabstracted PostgreSQL database per project, leveraging existing open source projects like PostgREST and PostgreSQL, and exposing native database features like Row Level Security and logical replication.

## Takeaways

- Supabase provisions a full PostgreSQL database per project without abstraction layers to maintain native scalability.
- Platform features like RESTful APIs, authentication, and realtime streams directly utilize PostgreSQL capabilities such as PostgREST, Row Level Security, and logical replication.
- The long-term roadmap focuses on cloud-native PostgreSQL features including database branching, globally distributed read-write nodes, scalable storage, and scale-to-zero compute.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres), [REST APIs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/rest-api), [Scalability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/scalability)

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