About

Founded

2018

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Industry

Cloud, Data

Company Description

We are the first serverless database platform designed specifically with the developer in mind. Our products are loved by developers, builders, scalers, and creators alike. We harness the power of open source allowing unlimited scaling. No one else combines scalability and the developer experience like we do.

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Funding

Total Raised

$105 million

Valuation

Undisclosed

Significant Investors

Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, Insight Partners

Company Traction

As of July 2023, PlanetScale counts Square, Etsy, Community, MyFitnessPal, Solana, Attentive, Kick, and Barstool Sports as customers.

Leadership Team

Sam Lambert: CEO & President at PlanetScale. Former VP of Engineering at GitHub.

Jiten Vaidya: Co-Founder & CSO of PlanetScale. Former Software Engineer at Dropbox.

Dan Burrill: VP of Sales at PlanetScale. Former RVP, West Enterprise and Strategic at Twilio.

Gabriel Madureira: Chief Growth Officer at PlanetScale. Former VP of GTM Operations at MongoDB.

Nicholas Van Wiggeren: VP of Engineering at PlanetScale. Former Director of Software Engineering at GitHub.

Jacques Grove: Head of Customer Engineering at PlanetScale. Former Global Head of Infrastructure Services, Google Cloud Professional Services at Google.

Press

VentureBeat (May 24, 2022): PlanetScale announces new database analysis and performance features

TechCrunch (November 16, 2021): PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability

TechCrunch (June 23, 2021): PlanetScale raises $30M Series B for its database service

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