Undisclosed closed December 2025, led by Lachy Groom.[2][3][4][5]

Round size and post-money valuation are not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Lachy Groom, Thrive Capital.[2][3][4][5]

Simon Eskildsen, Co-Founder & CEO[1][2][6][35]

Justine Li, Co-Founder[1][2][6][35]

Mike Gagnon, CFO[9][35]

Nathan VanBenschoten, Chief Architect[9][35]

Nikhil Benesch, Chief Technology Officer[9][35]

Pinecone · pinecone.io · Named in the same competitive landscape list for turbopuffer, so the same buyer evaluating a managed vector search backend would weigh it against turbopuffer.[30]

Qdrant · qdrant.tech · Listed as a turbopuffer competitor; same buyer and same job of vector similarity search with filtering.[30]

Elastic · elastic.co · Listed as a turbopuffer competitor; overlaps on full-text plus vector search, the same retrieval job turbopuffer sells.[30]

Chroma · trychroma.com · Listed as a turbopuffer competitor; same buyer building AI retrieval and the same embedding-store job.[30]

LanceDB · lancedb.com · Listed as a turbopuffer competitor and closest on architecture, since both pitch serverless vector search backed by persistent object storage rather than in-memory indexes.[30]

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