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.

TypePrivate
Founded2011
HQSan Francisco, CA, USMap
Websitefauna.com
Employee Ratings4.1More
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Employees (est.) (Sept 2021)51(+5%)
Cybersecurity ratingAMore

Key People/Management at Fauna

Evan Weaver

Evan Weaver

CTO
Eric Berg

Eric Berg

CEO & Board Member
Matt Freels

Matt Freels

Chief Architect
Dhruv Gupta

Dhruv Gupta

CMO
Dan Meyers

Dan Meyers

VP of HR & Operations
Cheryl Dalrymple

Cheryl Dalrymple

Board Member
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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
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Fauna Financials and Metrics

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Founding Date

2011

Fauna total Funding

$59.6 m

Fauna latest funding size

$27 m

Time since last funding

a year 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
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Fauna Operating Metrics

Jul, 2020

Users (Developers)

25 k
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Fauna Cybersecurity Score

Cybersecurity ratingPremium dataset

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90/100

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Fauna News and Updates

June 07, 2021

Mudflow Simulations Cast Doubt On Reconstruction Of Burgess Shale Fauna As A Unique Fossil Ecosystem

The fossil fauna of the Burgess Shale in Canada is one of the earliest ecosystems known to date. A recent study, however, has thrown this reconstruction into question.
May 09, 2021

Fauna CEO says cloud APIs help developers build apps without a database

Fauna makes database development easier with cloud APIs. CEO Eric Berg explains the company's approach and why Fauna is not a database.
March 03, 2021

How Fauna Helps Deliver The Serverless Future

The world of IT is moving to a new application model that goes beyond the client-server models of yore and beyond the ubiquitous web servers we use every day.
December 09, 2020

Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB: Architecture and Pricing

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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…
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Fauna Blogs

September 20, 2021

Real world database latency

Choosing the right database to power an application is a difficult task that involves reasoning about a complex set of tradeoffs. This is a high-level framework to help developers think about latency.
September 17, 2021

Product Updates - September 2021

September 17, 2021

Additional features to help you build faster!

September 17, 2021

Authenticating users with AWS Cognito in Fauna

In this article, you learn how to use AWS Cognito to authenticate to Fauna, the data API for modern applications.
September 10, 2021

Migrating your GraphQL schema with Fauna

Modern applications frequently change as you deliver features and fixes to customers. In this post, you learn specific considerations for migrating Fauna databases that you access via GraphQL and how to apply the techniques from the previous posts.
August 30, 2021

Building Fauna’s GDPR-compliant distributed and scalable database infrastructure with Pulumi

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 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 51 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.