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Fauna
Platform providing data API for modern applications
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Big data
- SaaS
- API
- Cloud Computing
- Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To make working with operational data productive, scalable, and secure for every software development team.
0% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Adding a database to an application can be a difficult task for any developer. Fauna addresses this complexity through its indexed documentation system, offering developers the ability to create databases with API calls rather than laboriously building intricate functionality from scratch.
By leveraging Fauna's capabilities, developers can not only simplify their code but also reduce costs and expedite the product development and release process. The serverless nature of Fauna ensures automatic scalability, dynamically adjusting to meet the specific needs of developers' applications.
The company has garnered an impressive customer base, with thousands of users, including notable companies like Nextdor and NVIDIA. Along with recent fundraising that has enabled Fauna to double its workforce and extend its marketing reach. As the company continues to evolve, its emphasis on diversity, scalability, and streamlined database integration positons it as a transformative force in the development landscape, offering practical solutions to complex challenges.
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Benefits
- Health & Well-being: We believe you shouldn’t have to worry about Medical/Dental/Vision/Basic Life Insurance, so we provide great coverage for our employees with a choice of a variety of providers!
- Paid Sick Leave: Let’s face it, we all get sick or need to care for a loved one who is! At Fauna, we provide all our employees with Paid Sick Days to ensure they, as well as their loved ones, are happy and healthy!
- Stock Options: Who wouldn’t want a piece of this exciting company! Stock options are granted to employees to encourage everyone to think and act like an owner
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO): All our employees are afforded an unlimited number of vacation days and are encouraged to take time needed to get away and recharge their batteries.
- The Best Equipment: For anyone to do their job well, they need the right tools. At Fauna we let you select your preference between a Mac or PC and provide all the productive software you need to be successful in your role.
- Community Engagement: Our employees are passionate about making the world a better place. We offer all employees paid Civic Days annually and Fauna sponsors a Matching Gifts program for employee donations to qualified non-profit organizations!
Company values
- Solve for the customer
- Be optimistic and think big
- Innovate where it matters
- Own it and make it happen
- Seek the best idea, then commit
- Act with integrity
- Work as one team
- Attract and develop the best
- Stay hungry and humble
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2020
$27m
SERIES A
Mar 2018
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $109.6m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Matt Freels
(Co-Founder)Matt worked for Serious Business as a Software Engineer before spending 2 years at Twitter in Engineering and as a Technical Lead. They served as a freelance Backend Engineering Consultant for almost 4 years before founding Fauna in 2016.
Evan Weaver
(Co-Founder)Having studied Computer Science, Evan worked at Twitter for 3 years They co-founded Fauna serving as CEO since 2020 before changing to CTO in 2020 and stepping back to a board position in June 2022.