Supabase funding, round by round, and what it means for your app
By Christophe Paka · Facts checked on 24 October 2026
You are about to build your product on Supabase, and readers ask the blunt question: "Will Supabase still be here in five years?" Nobody can promise that. But you can read the signals before you commit.
Guess wrong about a vendor and you face a rushed move later, with your users waiting.
Supabase funding is one signal, and the figure lays it out as TechCrunch reported it: each round, its valuation, and the developer count beside it. The open source code is the second signal.
How to read this figure
Start at the left end. Supabase was founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. YC S20 in the box means the Summer 2020 batch of Y Combinator, a program that backs young startups. Each Series letter after that is a later round of investor money.
Read the four rounds left to right. A valuation is what investors say the company is worth. The figure's "pre money" means its value before the new cash came in. Series C in September 2024 raised $80M at about $765M. Series D in April 2025 raised $200M at $2B. Series E in October 2025 raised $100M at $5B. Series F on 5 June 2026 raised $500M at $10B pre money, led by GIC.
Check the developer boxes below. The gray boxes are the developer counts as announced. In October 2025 the company reported about 4M developers, and in June 2026 nearly 10M. So the count more than doubled in about eight months.
Read the green box on AI. Database launches grew over 600% in a year, and over 60% of them came from an AI tool. Many new projects are started by coding agents and app builders, not typed by hand.
Read the two boxes on the left. Total raised by October 2025 was $500M, and Series F alone matched it eight months later. About 113k GitHub stars sit on the code, which is open source under Apache 2.0. So the versions already published stay free for anyone to run. No license keeps the hosted service itself running.
Key takeaways
- Treat funding as a lower vendor risk, not a promise about prices or any one feature.
- Price your exit anyway: give each rebuild an hour estimate, for Edge Functions, Realtime channels, Storage policies and the Auth setup.
- Write your decision down with a revisit date, and reread the pricing page before it.
Worked example: read the valuation as a series of steps
Put the four valuations from the figure in a row and compare each to the one before.
- Series C in September 2024: about $765M.
- Series D in April 2025: $2B, more than double.
- Series E in October 2025: $5B, more than double again.
- Series F in June 2026: $10B, double once more.
Result: Each round valued the company higher than the last, as TechCrunch reported it. Investors kept betting more, which is a signal, not proof. The book reads it this way: a sudden shutdown is a smaller risk than the limits that make people leave, such as cost per project or architecture.
Questions readers ask
Will Supabase still be here in five years?
No one can promise that. The signals are strong: a higher valuation at each round, a fast growing developer count, and open source code. None of this fixes prices or any one feature. Your data is plain Postgres, so its export tool, pg_dump, copies it to any Postgres host. If prices rise, the exit you priced is your answer.
Is Supabase open source, and does that protect me?
The code is open source under Apache 2.0, so the versions already published stay free to run. You could run the same services on your own server, in the EU if your data must stay there. That means you set it up, update it about once a month, and run the backups. See the self hosted architecture. Open source protects the code, not the hours that work takes.
What does the Turso deal change for existing users?
Supabase announced it is buying Turso, a company built on SQLite, a small database kept in one file. If the news made you wonder about your project, Supabase says, "For existing users, nothing changes." Your Postgres project stays as it is.
Sources: TechCrunch: Supabase doubles valuation to $10B; Supabase is acquiring Turso (Supabase blog); supabase/supabase on GitHub.
This figure is from Supabase Made Crystal Clear, chapter 15.
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