PlanetScale

The world's fastest and most scalable cloud databases

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2018 · $102.0M raised

Employees
51–200
Founded
2018
Business Model
B2B
Total Funding
$102.0M
Last Round
$50.0M Series CNov 2021
Rounds
3

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About

PlanetScale is a cloud database platform founded in 2018 by the creators of Vitess, an open-source MySQL clustering system originally built at YouTube and now maintained by the CNCF. The company offers the world's fastest and most scalable managed databases for both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL workloads, powered by NVMe-backed servers with unlimited IOPS. PlanetScale Metal, its flagship offering, consistently benchmarks as the fastest Postgres in the cloud and serves Tier 0 production databases for companies including Cursor (Anysphere), Cash App, Intercom, MyFitnessPal, and Convex. The platform features branch-based schema workflows, online schema changes, global edge routing, full observability, and enterprise compliance (SOC 2, PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA). PlanetScale also develops Neki, a next-generation Postgres sharding architecture. The company is remote-first and globally distributed.

Summary

PlanetScale is an Infrastructure company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2018. It has raised $102.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $50.0M Series C round in Nov 2021. Investors include Kleiner Perkins and Insight Partners.

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Funding History

Series CSeries CNov 2021
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