Supabase raises $150 M from Singapore's GIC and moves to acquire Turso’s database for AI agents
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Supabase has secured $150 million in funding led by Singapore’s GIC and will acquire Turso, a database tailored for AI agents, for an undisclosed amount.
Supabase, the startup that builds commercial services around the open‑source PostgreSQL database, announced a $150 million financing round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. The same statement confirmed that Supabase will acquire Turso, a company that provides a database platform tuned for AI‑agent workloads, for an undisclosed amount.
The infusion of capital and the Turso acquisition signal Supabase’s intent to deepen its role in the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market. By adding a database engineered for the low‑latency, high‑throughput demands of autonomous AI agents, Supabase can offer developers a more integrated stack for building and scaling generative‑AI applications. The move also positions the company against larger cloud providers that are bundling AI‑ready data services with their platforms.
Investors are likely watching how Supabase integrates Turso’s technology and whether the combined offering can attract enterprise customers that need both the reliability of PostgreSQL and the performance characteristics required by AI workloads. Future milestones to monitor include product road‑maps for AI‑specific features, pricing strategies for the new service tier, and any further funding rounds that might follow the GIC‑led investment.
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