Supabase

San Francisco, CaliforniaFounded 2020

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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.

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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

Free

$0/month

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.

Pro

From $25/month

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.

Team

From $599/month

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.

Enterprise

Custom pricing

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.

Private company. No public IPO plans announced. Valued at $5 billion in Series E (October 2025). Company reserved allocation for community members to co-invest in Series E round.