Supabase Raises $150M and Acquires Turso as AI Agents Drive Database Demand

Quick Facts

• Supabase raised $150 million led by GIC, just four months after closing a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation.
• The company acquired Turso, an open-source SQLite-compatible database startup, with Turso founder Glauber Costa joining as head of agentic services.
• Seventy percent of Supabase's new databases are now created by AI agents or AI-driven tools, with the platform adding 4 million databases per month.

Supabase has raised $150 million in new funding and acquired database infrastructure company Turso, doubling down on its position as the backend platform of choice for AI coding agents. The round was led by GIC, with participation from Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG, IronArc, and SquarePeg.

The raise comes only four months after Supabase closed a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation. The company did not disclose a new valuation. Part of the capital will provide liquidity for employee shares. Supabase's total funding now sits at approximately $1.1 billion.

Agent Traffic Is Rewriting the Growth Story

Supabase now adds 1 million users and 4 million databases every month. Of those new databases, 70% are spun up by agents or AI-driven tools rather than human developers. That figure reflects a 600% year-over-year increase in database volume the company reported in June.

Tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex are the primary drivers. Claude Code alone is the largest single contributor to new databases on the platform in 2026. The platform has attracted nearly 10 million developers total, more than doubling user growth in eight months.

CEO Paul Copplestone put it plainly: "The past year has been the fastest growth in our history by a wide margin. The future is agents and the architecture Turso provides will help us accelerate Supabase as the backend platform for supporting that future."

What Turso Brings to the Table

Turso is an open-source, SQLite-compatible database written in Rust. Its core design treats a database as a lightweight file rather than a long-running server process, which lets a single server manage millions of databases by loading them on demand and pausing them when idle.

The company built libSQL, an open-source fork of SQLite with more than 17,000 GitHub stars. The fork adds multi-version concurrency control for concurrent writes, native async I/O, built-in vector search, and WebAssembly support. Customers include Superhuman, Mastra, Sauna.ai, and CTO.new.

Turso founder Glauber Costa will join Supabase as head of agentic services. Co-founder Pekka Enberg and the rest of the Turso team will also move over. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Costa said his goal from the start was to serve upward of a billion databases. "Being a part of Supabase, with its gargantuan developer success and ever-growing partner ecosystem will bring this goal closer," he said.

Products Stay Separate, For Now

Supabase and Turso will not immediately merge their products. Supabase continues developing around PostgreSQL. Turso keeps its focus on SQLite. Existing databases, APIs, and workflows remain unchanged, and Turso Database will stay open source.

The longer-term plan is a graduation path between the two platforms. Agents using Turso databases will eventually be able to access Supabase Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, and Realtime without managing two separate stacks. The integration targets the agent use case directly: lightweight Turso instances for simple tasks that do not require a full relational database.

New Products Round Out the Announcement

Supabase also launched Supabase Compute alongside the funding news. The new cloud service provides hosted sandboxes for long-running AI agents. It is one of several features unveiled at the company's Select 2026 event, which also introduced Docker-free local development, Declarative Schemas 2.0, and new data pipeline destinations including BigQuery, ClickHouse, and Snowflake.

The company also announced enterprise-managed authentication for its Model Context Protocol server via SSO, and added agent-run health, security, and performance monitoring through MCP. Those features signal Supabase is moving beyond developer tooling and into the operational layer for production agentic systems.

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