PlanetScale

PlanetScale is an Operational Databases company founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $80M in total funding, most recently a Series C in 2021.

PlanetScale operates a serverless MySQL platform built on Vitess, offering branching, schema migrations, and horizontal scaling. Raised $105M in 2021. Ended free tier in 2023, causing developer backlash. Strong technical product but uncertain market positioning.

Brought Vitess (YouTube's sharding system) to the masses, making MySQL horizontally scalable and offering Git-like database workflows.

planetscale.com Operational Databases

United Statesprivate

At a glance

Total raised

$80M

last round series c

Headcount

51-200

approximate · public range

Headquarters

San Francisco

United States

Founded

2018

8 years active

Status

Private

Operational Databases

Patents on file

Funding history

Total raised

$80M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Series C

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Nov 16, 2021	Series C	$50M	—	Kleiner Perkins
Jun 23, 2021	Series B	$30M	—	Insight Partners

PlanetScale

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Products

PlanetScale for MySQL (Vitess)

PlanetScale Metal (Managed Postgres)

Database Branching & Deploy Requests

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