Total amount raised
$57 Million
Latest funding date
7/1/2020
Location
Fauna successfully raised significant funding over multiple rounds for its distributed serverless database. The platform was shut down in May 2025, and all accounts and data were deleted after that date.
What Is Fauna?
Fauna, Inc. operated in the database technology and cloud computing industry until it shut down its database service in May 2025. The company offered a distributed serverless database that merged the flexibility of document databases with the power of relational databases. This platform was designed to accelerate development, reduce operational overhead, and ensure compliance with data regulations.
Fauna provided automatic scaling, zero infrastructure management, and a modern architecture that simplified infrastructure tasks. The platform supported various deployment models, including multi-tenant and dedicated customizable deployments, ensuring high availability, low latency, and strong consistency.
How Much Funding Has Fauna Raised?
- Seed Round
- Amount Raised: $3.1M
- Date: June 2016
- Lead Investors: Afore Capital
- Valuation at Round: Not publicly disclosed
- Motivation Behind the Round: To develop the initial version of FaunaDB and bring it to market.
- Seed Round
- Amount Raised: $4.5M
- Date: September 2016
- Lead Investors: CRV
- Valuation at Round: Not publicly disclosed
- Motivation Behind the Round: To expand the development team and accelerate product development.
- Series A
- Amount Raised: $25M
- Date: September 2017
- Lead Investors: Point72 Ventures
- Valuation at Round: Not publicly disclosed
- Motivation Behind the Round: To scale operations and enhance the platform's capabilities.
- Series A
- Amount Raised: $25M
- Date: March 2018
- Lead Investors: Not publicly disclosed
- Valuation at Round: Not publicly disclosed
- Motivation Behind the Round: To further develop the technology and expand market reach.
- Series A
- Amount Raised: $27M
- Date: July 2020
- Lead Investors: Madrona Venture Group
- Valuation at Round: Not publicly disclosed
- Motivation Behind the Round: To accelerate growth, expand the user community, and enhance product offerings.
Total Amount Raised: $57M. Current Valuation: Not publicly disclosed. This is the lifetime total Fauna reported in July 2020; the March 2018 Series A row repeats the September 2017 round.
Key Investors
- Madrona Venture Group
- Details: Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. S. Somasegar, Managing Director at Madrona, will join Fauna's board of directors.
- Investment Focus Areas: Cloud computing, machine learning, enterprise software.
- Notable Investments: Amazon, Smartsheet, Snowflake.
- GV (formerly Google Ventures)
- Details: GV is the venture capital arm of Alphabet Inc., investing in various sectors including technology and life sciences. They participated in Fauna's $27M funding round.
- Investment Focus Areas: Life sciences, technology, consumer products, and services.
- Notable Investments: Uber, Slack, Nest.
- CRV (Charles River Ventures)
- Details: CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. They are an existing institutional investor in Fauna.
- Investment Focus Areas: Early-stage technology companies, particularly in software and IT.
- Notable Investments: Twitter, Zendesk, HubSpot.
- Quest Ventures
- Details: Quest Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology startups in Asia. They are an existing institutional investor in Fauna.
- Investment Focus Areas: Early-stage technology companies in Asia.
- Notable Investments: Carousell, 99.co, ShopBack.
- ADDITION
- Details: ADDITION is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies across various sectors. They participated in Fauna's $27M funding round.
- Investment Focus Areas: Early-stage technology companies across various sectors.
- Notable Investments: Not publicly disclosed.
What's Next for Fauna?
Fauna stopped accepting new customers in March 2025 and turned off its database service in May 2025. Its last funding was a $27 million round in July 2020.
Fauna's board and investors determined that it was not possible to raise the capital needed to continue independently. The company committed to releasing an open-source version of its core database technology.
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