A better way to build with Postgres
Neon is an open-source database company. Our mission is to take everything that developers love about Postgres — reliability, performance, extensibility — and deliver it as a serverless product that helps teams confidently ship reliable and scalable applications faster than ever before.
- March, 2021First Commits
- June 15th, 2022Technical Preview
- July, 2022$54MM Raised
- December, 2022Open Access
- August, 2023$46MM Raised
- April 15th, 2024Neon is Generally Available
Developers are at the center of everything we do.
Just Be Postgres
Achieve this by leveraging the pluggable storage layer, preserving the core of Postgres.
Easy
Simplify the life of developers by bringing the serverless consumption model to Postgres.
Reliable
Use modern replication techniques to provide high availability and high durability guarantees.
Cost Efficient
Aim to deliver the best price-performance Postgres service in the world.
Neon is
open-source
We chose the most permissive open-source license, Apache 2.0, and invited the world to participate. You can build and run your own self-hosted instance of Neon.
Neon GitHub repository16kStars on GitHub
132Contributors
18k+Databases created daily
Leadership
Neon was founded by a team of database builders and Postgres hackers.
Nikita ShamgunovCEO
Heikki LinnakangasCo-Founder
Stas KelvichCo-Founder
James BroadheadVP Engineering
Bryan ClarkVP Product
Arjunan RajeswaranHead of Revenue
Luke FlanaganVP Finance
Our investors
We've raised $104 million in funding, backed by some of the world's leading investors.
Individual investors
Nat FriedmanFormer CEO at GitHub
Guillermo RauchCEO at Vercel
Wes McKinneyFounder of VoltronData
Ajeet SinghFounder of ThoughtSpot
Elad GilFounder of Color Genomics
Mike OvitzFounder of CAA
Søren Brammer SchmidtCEO at Prisma
Ramtin NaimiFounder at Abstract
Andy PavloProfessor at CMU
Become a part of our team
We're looking for people who care deeply about quality to build with us.
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