Fauna
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Fauna develops an adaptive operational database platform designed to scale digital business. Its database solutions provide users with access control, data isolation, and encryption security; unified relational, temporal, graph, and search capabilities; and resources across products, customers, and teams to reduce overhead.
| Type | Private | |
| Founded | 2011 | |
| HQ | San Francisco, CA, US | Map |
| Website | fauna.com |
Recent NewsAll News
- Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing
- Tom Wester and Linda M. Kilty's New Book 'Flowers, Fauna, and Memories' Shares a Captivating Celebration of the Many Beautiful Seasons of Life
- Beyond the ‘fail whale’: How former Twitter engineers are designing a modern serverless database at Fauna
- Fauna raises an additional $27M to turn databases into a simple API call
Latest Updates
| Employees (est.) (Jan 2021) | 40 | |
| Cybersecurity rating | B | More |
Key People/Management at Fauna
Evan Weaver
CTO
Eric Berg
CEO & Board Member
Matt Freels
Chief Architect
Dhruv Gupta
CMO
Dan Meyers
VP of HR & Operations
Cheryl Dalrymple
Board Member
Fauna Office Locations
Fauna has an office in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, US (HQ)
744 Montgomery St #200, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, US
548 Market St, San Francisco
Fauna Financials and Metrics
Summary Metrics
Founding Date | 2011 |
Fauna total Funding | $59.6 m |
Fauna latest funding size | $27 m |
Time since last funding | 7 months ago |
Fauna investors | Madrona Venture Group, CRV, Quest Venture Partners, Webb Investment Network, Data Collective, Ulu Ventures, Roger Bamford, Quest Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, GV, Scott McNealy, Olivier Pomel, Tom Preston-Werner, Point72 Ventures, Afore Capital, Addition |
Fauna's latest funding round in July 2020 was reported to be $27 m. In total, Fauna has raised $59.6 m
Human Capital Metrics
Fauna Cybersecurity Score
Fauna Online and Social Media Presence
550 Twitter followers
Fauna has 550 Twitter Followers. The number of followers has increased 4.6% month over month and increased 9.4% quarter over quarter
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Fauna News and Updates
December 08, 2020
Tom Wester and Linda M. Kilty's New Book 'Flowers, Fauna, and Memories' Shares a Captivating Celebration of the Many Beautiful Seasons of Life
Recent release 'Flowers, Fauna, and Memories' from Covenant Books author Tom Wester and Linda M. Kilty is a mind-clearing collection of tales and photographs that share the story of a family's love and a journey of discovering who they really are and who they believe in.
August 28, 2020
Beyond the ‘fail whale’: How former Twitter engineers are designing a modern serverless database at Fauna
In the time it takes to read this sentence, more than 60,000 tweets will have already been sent. Twitter Inc. today has 330 million monthly active users, 1.3 billion accounts and 83% of the world’s leaders use the service. Yet, as the company’s 15th employee hired in 2008 saw it, one of the most po…
July 01, 2020
Fauna raises an additional $27M to turn databases into a simple API call
Databases have always been a complex part of the equation for developers requiring a delicate balance to manage inside the application, but Fauna wants to make adding a database a simple API call, and today it announced $27 million in new funding. The round, which is technically an extension of the …
July 01, 2020
‘Serverless’ database startup Fauna raises $27M
Database startup Fauna Inc. today said that it has raised $27 million in funding to address the rise of serverless computing, which it argues has created a need for a new, likewise serverless approach to managing data. Madrona Venture Group led the investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV f…
July 01, 2020
Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia and Okta veteran Eric Berg are joining the leadership team of the data startup Fauna, just as it closes a $27 million round
On Wednesday, the data startup Fauna announced it brought on Okta veteran Eric Berg as CEO and former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia as executive chairman.
Fauna also announced it closed $27 million in funding led by Madrona Venture Group.
Fauna cofounder Evan Weaver, who started the company after his …
Fauna Blogs
January 06, 2021
Using Fauna's streaming feature to build a chat with Svelte
December 10, 2020
Getting started with Fauna and Node.js using Fastify
Learn how to build a small API that illustrates how to use Fauna in Node.js.
November 23, 2020
Live UI updates with Fauna’s real-time document streaming
November 23, 2020
Introducing new capabilities for collaboration, third-party authentication and real-time streaming
Read about Fauna's new capabilities including team management, MFA, the ability to secure applications with third-party identity providers, and real-time document streaming.
November 23, 2020
Setting up SSO authentication in Fauna with Auth0
Fauna Frequently Asked Questions
When was Fauna founded?
Fauna was founded in 2011.
Who are Fauna key executives?
Fauna's key executives are Evan Weaver, Eric Berg and Matt Freels.
How many employees does Fauna have?
Fauna has 40 employees.
Who are Fauna competitors?
Competitors of Fauna include YugaByte, Cockroach Labs and NuoDB.
Where is Fauna headquarters?
Fauna headquarters is located at 744 Montgomery St #200, San Francisco, San Francisco.
Where are Fauna offices?
Fauna has an office in San Francisco.
How many offices does Fauna have?
Fauna has 2 offices.
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