We're building the database for applications and AI agents

Founded. In London, by Tobie and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock, who lead the company today as CEO and COO.

Built in the open. The engine is free to self-host under BSL 1.1; the SDKs and tools are open source under Apache 2.0 or MIT.

In production. SurrealDB runs at scale for Samsung, Verizon and Tencent, with more than four million developers.

OUR STORY

How we got here

2022Public launchSurrealDB is released publicly, with the engine built in the open on GitHub.
4 Jan 2023$6M seed roundThe first funding round backs the engine and a managed cloud for it.
13 Sep 2023SurrealDB 1.0The first stable release of the engine.
Nov 2025$38M Series AThe Series A takes total funding to $44M.
17 Feb 2026SurrealDB 3.0The third major version of the engine.
14 Oct 2026Agent MemoryA memory layer for AI agents, running on the same engine.

FAST FACTS

SurrealDB in numbers

33.3kStars on GitHub 105Releases shipped v4.0.0The latest release 4M+Developers building on SurrealDB 35People on the team $44MRaised in total, from seed to Series A

2022Launched to the world

974People online on Discord right now

THE PEOPLE

The people behind SurrealDB. We're based in London and around the world, and we build in the open alongside a much larger community.

Tobie Morgan HitchcockCo-founder and CEO on LinkedIn
Jaime Morgan HitchcockCo-founder and COO on LinkedIn
Beau den HeijerSoftware Engineer
Charli BaptiePeople and Experience Manager
Chiru BoggavarapuSenior Developer Experience Engineer
Corrado BogniExecutive Assistant to the Co-founders
Dale PendleburyVideo and Events Producer
Daniel ClimentSenior Backend Platform Engineer
Dave MacLeodTechnical Writer
Drew RidleyDatabase Engineer
Emmanuel KellerSenior Staff Engineer
Heather RaubSenior Account Executive
Ignacio PazGrowth Lead
Ingrid MorganPR and Editorial Advisor
Julian MillsSenior Software Engineer
Konstantin DatzCreative Director
Lizzie HolmesHead of Customer and Implementation
Lorena SzermanFractional Chief Revenue Officer
Lucy MackPeople Consultant
Manel MontillaSenior Cloud Engineer
Mark GylesSocial Media Lead
Martin SchaerSolutions Engineer
Matthew McFaddenCloud Engineer
Mees DelzenneSenior Software Engineer
Meriel CunninghamData and Systems Lead
Micha de VriesSoftware Engineer
Michael IsteedFinance Director
Ned Rudkins-StowEvents and Media Programmes Lead
Nico OteizaData and ML Consultant
Rushmore MushambiSenior Software Engineer
Sean GleasonSales Development Representative
Stu SchwartzHead of Engineering
Travis FutasIn-House General Counsel
Yusuke KuokaSenior Software Engineer
Zeeshan SanaullahSenior Platform Engineer

INVESTORS

Our investors

Matt Turck

Emily Walsh

Mike Chalfen

Begin Capital

Alumni Ventures

OUR VALUES

The principles that shape how we work, how we hire, and how we build.

BEGIN;

Low ego. Transparency. Ambition.

Open minds, team success before individual credit, and ambition about what we build.

CREATE;

Collaboration. Curiosity. Drive.

We challenge assumptions, move quickly, learn as we go and build together.

UPDATE;

Clarity. Adaptability. Growth.

We iterate, share feedback openly and keep momentum when things change.

COMMIT;

Ownership. Focus. Customer-first.

We own our work, focus on what matters and stay close to our users.

IN PRODUCTION

Trusted at scale. Samsung, Nvidia, Verizon, Tencent, and Walmart run on SurrealDB.

14,000+

Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud

4M+

Developers building on SurrealDB worldwide

FROM THE TEAMS

SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture.

Justin Foley

VP of Engineering, Later

KEY FACTS

SurrealDB at a glance

COMPANY: SurrealDB Ltd; Registered in England and Wales (company number 13615201), and certified to SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus.
WHAT WE BUILD: SurrealDB and Agent Memory; A multi-model database for applications and AI agents, and a memory layer for agents that runs on the same engine.
FOUNDERS: Tobie and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock; Tobie is Chief Executive Officer and Jaime is Chief Operating Officer. Together they founded the company and lead it today.
HEADQUARTERS: London, United Kingdom; SurrealDB is headquartered in London, with a team of 35 working from London and around the world.
LAUNCHED: 2022; SurrealDB was released publicly in 2022. Version 1.0 followed in September 2023, and 3.0 in February 2026.
FUNDING: $44M; The company has raised $44M to date: a $6M seed round in 2023 and a $38M Series A in 2025.
INVESTORS: Six venture firms; SurrealDB is backed by FirstMark, Georgian, Chalfen Ventures, Begin Capital, Crew Capital and Alumni Ventures.
SOURCE CODE: Open on GitHub; The core engine, the SDKs and the tooling are developed in public, with every change and release on GitHub. github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb
LICENCE: BSL 1.1, Apache 2.0 and MIT; The SurrealDB engine is free to use, modify and self-host, including in production. The one thing its licence (BSL 1.1) reserves is running SurrealDB as a database service for third parties, where they create and manage their own schemas or tables. Each version becomes Apache 2.0 no later than four years after its release, and the SDKs and tools are open source under Apache 2.0 or MIT from day one. surrealdb.com/license
COMMUNITY: 4M+ developers; More than four million developers build on SurrealDB and its community is on Discord alongside the engineering team. discord.gg/surrealdb

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