Supabase
Supabase enables developers to build in a weekend and scale to millions by providing an open-source Postgres development platform that eliminates the complexities of backend infrastructure.
Founding Story
Founded in January 2020 after Paul Copplestone experienced scaling issues with Google's Firebase while working at Nimbus for Work. He devised a solution by attaching serverless functions to Firestore to replicate data into a Postgres database, then built an open-source real-time engine on top of Postgres. He pitched the idea to Ant Wilson, whom he met during the Entrepreneur First Accelerator Program. The company initially struggled, hosting only eight databases by April 2020. Traction accelerated dramatically in May 2020 when they repositioned with the tagline 'the open-source Firebase alternative,' causing the platform to scale from eight hosted databases to eight hundred within three days.
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Leadership
Founders
Paul Copplestone
CEO and Co-Founder. Previously CTO of Singapore-based startup Nimbus for Work, where he built solutions for scaling Firebase. Before that, he was Co-Founder & CTO at ServisHero. Full-stack developer and repeat founder who participated in Y Combinator.
Ant Wilson
CTO and Co-Founder. Software engineering background with previous experience co-founding Crypto Squad and STYLINDEX before starting Supabase. Participated in Y Combinator and the Entrepreneur First Accelerator Program where he met Paul Copplestone.
Executive Team
Paul Copplestone
CEO and Co-Founder
Full-stack developer and repeat entrepreneur with prior experience as CTO at Nimbus for Work and Co-Founder & CTO at ServisHero. Y Combinator alum focused on building company culture in a global, remote startup.
Ant Wilson
CTO and Co-Founder
Software engineer with experience co-founding Crypto Squad and STYLINDEX. Leads technical strategy and product development at Supabase.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS with usage-based pricing. Revenue is generated through monthly subscriptions across Free, Pro ($25/month), Team ($599/month), and Enterprise (custom) tiers. Monetization is based on monthly active users (MAUs), database storage, bandwidth, file storage, and compute resources. Additional revenue from add-ons including compute scaling, advanced disk configurations, and enterprise features like SOC2/HIPAA compliance.
Pricing Tiers
Perfect for passion projects & simple websites. Includes unlimited API requests, up to 50K MAUs, 500MB database space, 5GB bandwidth, 1GB file storage, and 2GB log retention.
For production applications with the power to scale. Includes $10 in compute credits, 100K MAUs (additional charges for more), 8GB database space, 250GB bandwidth, 100GB file storage, daily backups, email support, and 7-day log retention.
Adds features such as SSO (SAML 2.0), control over backups, and industry certifications (SOC2). Includes $10 in compute credits, read-only and billing member roles, priority email support, and 28-day log retention.
For large-scale applications running Internet scale workloads. Includes 24/7/365 support, private Slack channel, on-premise support, custom contracts, SLAs, and dedicated support.
Target Markets
- Individual developers and hobbyists (passion projects)
- Startups and small businesses (production applications)
- Enterprise customers (large-scale, data-intensive workloads)
- AI builders and vibe coding platforms (approximately 30% of signups)
- No-code and low-code platform developers
- Y Combinator startups (1000+ YC companies use Supabase)
- Full-featured backend for web and mobile applications
- Fast prototyping - build in a weekend, scale to millions
- Real-time synchronization and collaborative applications
- AI-powered applications and vibe coding platforms
- Complex data relationships with PostgreSQL
- Backend infrastructure for no-code and low-code platforms
- PwC
- McDonald's
- GitHub Next
- 1Password
History & Milestones
Acquired BKND and became official Claude connector
Raised $202M Series D at $2B valuation led by Accel
Raised $100M Series E at $5B valuation; surpassed 4 million developers
1000 Y Combinator Founders Choose Supabase
Acquired Triplit
1 AI Tool by Supabase
Official Supabase extension for VS Code that adds AI-powered database management features via GitHub Copilot integration
