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 repository- 18kStars on GitHub 
- 141Contributors 
- 18k+Databases created daily 
Leadership
Neon was founded by a team of database builders and Postgres hackers.
 Nikita ShamgunovCEO Nikita ShamgunovCEO
 Heikki LinnakangasCo-Founder Heikki LinnakangasCo-Founder
 Stas KelvichCo-Founder Stas KelvichCo-Founder
 James BroadheadVP Engineering James BroadheadVP Engineering
 Bryan ClarkVP Product Bryan ClarkVP Product
 Arjunan RajeswaranHead of Revenue Arjunan RajeswaranHead of Revenue
 Luke FlanaganVP Finance 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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