PlanetScale

Culture & Overview

PlanetScale is a mid-sized software company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on scalable, secure cloud databases for developers and organizations. The company's mission is to provide a Database product that is easy to use, highly available, and automatically handles failures and network partitions. PlanetScale has raised a total of $105M over 4 funding rounds, with their latest round being $50M in November 2021. In September 2026, PlanetScale launched Neki in platform preview, bringing horizontal sharding and automated online operations to native PostgreSQL clusters. The company also announced a partnership with Cloudflare in September 2025, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer experience. - ## Recent posts - 2026-03-09: We've been shipping: - New Terraform provider for Postgres + Vitess - Reduced pricing for traffic over private connections - New region: gcp-us-east1 And much more. - 2026-03-11: The PlanetScale plugin for Cursor is a huge unlock for database productivity. Discover and apply schema recommendations, improve query performance, and work with your data in natural language - Managed. Based in San Francisco, California, PlanetScale operates as a mid-sized software company. In September 2025, Cloudflare announced a partnership with PlanetScale, signaling a collaboration focused on performance, reliability and developer experience. The company operates in the software development industry, focusing on scalable, secure cloud databases for developers and organizations. [.. - The mission of PlanetScale is to provide a Database product that can be used easily, where you as a Developer start small and grow to scale. It's highly available, automatically handles failures and network partitions while continuing to serve traffic. Due to its globally distributed architecture, you'll get low latency as well. As an application developer, you don't have to worry about any of the - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PlanetScale, creators of a database-as-a-service built on Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced PlanetScaleDB is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace. PlanetScale's flagship product provides customers with a battle-tested transactional database that delivers the scalability, manageability and reliability enterprises need for curren