Supabase raises $150 million and buys Turso for lightweight agent databases
Supabase co-founder Paul Copplestone says agents are spinning up millions of databases, and the Postgres company is buying SQLite-based Turso after a $150 million round led by Singapore's GIC.
Supabase, which sells a hosted version of open-source PostgreSQL, announced a $150 million funding round and an agreement to acquire Turso on 2 October, SiliconANGLE reported. Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC led the round. Alphabet's CapitalG, IronArc and SquarePeg also invested. The purchase price was not disclosed, and SiliconANGLE is the only outlet this report found carrying the details.
Turso builds on SQLite, the small embedded database, and the report says it supports embeddings and page-level encryption. Supabase's argument, as SiliconANGLE relays it, is that agents often need a cheap database for a simple job and not a full relational setup. A lightweight engine lets them create one quickly.
Copplestone put the demand plainly. "Agents are spinning up millions of databases to power the prototypes, explorations, dashboards, and apps they're building," he said, according to the report. That is a founder describing his own market, and the report gives no figure showing how many databases agents create on Supabase today.
The money is earmarked for employee liquidity and for new agent features, the report says, especially Supabase Compute. That newly launched service offers hosted sandboxes where long-running AI agents can work. Supabase has not said, in the material SiliconANGLE cites, when Turso's technology will appear in its products or what happens to Turso's existing customers.