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PlanetScale

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Company overview

PlanetScale brings you the fastest Postgres and MySQL (Vitess) databases available in the cloud. Get horizontally sharded MySQL with Vitess, and sharded Postgres with Neki (coming soon).Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed.
Founded in 2018
San Francisco, California, USA
96 employees (2 in marketing)
planetscale.com
59% recommend to a friend
57% positive business outlook

Salaries

Typical salary range

$120,000 – $140,000

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People

Founders

Sam Lambert
Sam Lambert
Co-founder/CEO
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Jiten Vaidya
Jiten Vaidya
Co-Founder & CSO
LinkedIn

Marketing leadership

Holly Guevara
Holly Guevara
Chief Marketing Officer
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Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +68.4% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$105M

Last raise

$50M

Series C, 5 years ago

Funding history

Nov 2021

Series C PlanetScale · $50M

Jun 2021

Series B PlanetScale · $30M

May 2019

Series A PlanetScale · $22M

Dec 2018

Seed Round PlanetScale · $3M

Audience

Monthly website visitors
277.1K
Month over month+3.1%
Quarter over quarter-2%
Top sourceDirect (46.6%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank36.5
Traffic source mix
Direct
46.6%
Search
31.8%
Social
11.4%
Referral
7.6%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

14.3K

12-mo growth

+38.2%

Monthly growth

+6.5%

News

Links

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