The company behind the multi-model database SurrealDB has raised a further £17 million in Series A funding. This brings the total investment in the firm to date to approximately £32.56 million.
This latest extension includes participation from Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital, who join existing investors FirstMark and Georgian. As part of the agreement, Mike Chalfen of Chalfen Ventures will join the board as a Director.
The funding coincides with the general availability of SurrealDB 3.0. This version is designed to address challenges faced by AI agents, which require a unified view of state, including semantic context and durable memory. The update allows for agent memory and context graphs to be managed within the database, ensuring that models run alongside the data and context remains synchronised.
SurrealDB reports that its platform has been downloaded 2.3 million times and has gained 31,000 GitHub stars.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, co-founder and CEO, stated: “This fresh investment demonstrates a growing level of excitement for our category-defining, developer-friendly database. Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital have joined this round due to our strong momentum in real-world usage, and clear path to large-scale production.”
The new capital will be used to support product maturity, focusing on reliability, security, and cloud offerings. The firm also plans to increase its headcount to support production deployments. Built in Rust, the database combines several data types, such as relational, graph, and vector, into one system. This is intended to remove the need for developers to manage multiple databases and complex API layers.
The 3.0 release introduces Surrealism, a plugin ecosystem that allows for custom business logic and access control layers to be managed as shareable modules. It also enables the handling of structured records alongside audio and images.
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