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SUPABASE RAISES $150M, ACQUIRES TURSO

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SAT, OCT 3, 2026

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Supabase, which commercializes open-source PostgreSQL, secured $150 million in funding led by Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund. The company is acquiring Turso, a database platform optimized for AI agents.

The funding round places Supabase among the well-capitalized infrastructure startups building tools for the AI era. GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, led the investment alongside existing backers. The acquisition of Turso signals Supabase's strategic pivot toward AI workloads. Turso offers a database specifically optimized for AI agent applications, addressing a growing segment of developers building autonomous systems. Financial terms of the Turso acquisition were not disclosed. The deal underscores consolidation trends in the database market as companies compete to serve AI developers with specialized infrastructure. Supabase has positioned itself as an open-source alternative to Firebase, offering developers a PostgreSQL-based backend platform. The new capital and Turso acquisition expand its capabilities beyond traditional application backends into emerging AI-driven use cases.

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