Supabase raises $150M and agrees to acquire Turso
GIC led Supabase’s $150 million financing as the Postgres platform agreed to buy SQLite-based Turso for an undisclosed price.
By Dominic Okoye · Staff Writer
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Supabase raises $150M and agrees to acquire Turso in a paired financing and M&A announcement aimed at supporting databases created by AI agents. GIC led the round, with CapitalG, IronArc and SquarePeg participating; Supabase did not disclose either the valuation for the financing or the price it agreed to pay for Turso.
The company said the new capital will fund product work on agent-driven databases and provide liquidity for employees. The financing arrives four months after Supabase’s announced $500 million Series F, according to its Oct. 2 release.
The transaction has been announced as an acquisition agreement, rather than a confirmed closing. Turso’s platform is expected to keep operating, while being brought into the broader Supabase ecosystem. Supabase said existing customers would see no changes under its current plan.
Why is Supabase acquiring Turso?
Supabase’s stated rationale is that AI agents can create large numbers of isolated databases, a pattern that requires fast provisioning without assigning a dedicated machine to every database. Turso offers an architecture that Supabase says is designed to provide low-cost, on-demand databases for those workloads in public-cloud and bring-your-own-cloud deployments.
The deal combines two distinct database approaches. Supabase is built around Postgres and sells a developer backend that includes database services, authentication, storage, edge functions, real-time subscriptions and vector search. Turso is built around SQLite, a lighter-weight relational database. Supabase says it will continue developing its Postgres offering, while Turso will continue working on SQLite.
For developers, the practical implication is continuity rather than an announced product consolidation. The companies have not disclosed a timetable for integration or specific changes to pricing, features or support.
What changes for Turso’s team and customers?
Glauber Costa, Turso’s founder, is set to join Supabase as head of agentic services. Turso co-founder Pekka Enberg and the rest of the Turso team will also join, Supabase said. The company said the Turso service will remain available, with a route into its wider product portfolio over time.
Supabase is using its own growth figures to make the case for the transaction. It said it is adding more than 1 million users and more than 4 million databases each month, and that agents or AI-driven tools create 70% of new databases. Those figures were not independently verified in the announcement.
The funding and acquisition do not establish how much demand will persist for per-agent databases, or whether Turso’s architecture will be integrated into Supabase’s core platform. They do show Supabase putting new capital behind a product split it says can serve both Postgres-centered application backends and SQLite-based databases for high-volume agent workloads.
This story draws on original reporting from SiliconANGLE.
