Startup profile for Upstash: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Upstash funding, valuation and investors

Serverless Redis, Kafka, and vector database with per-request pricing.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Not publicly disclosed

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

Not publicly disclosed

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

series a · San Francisco, California, USA

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Upstash provides serverless data infrastructure — Redis-compatible key-value store, Kafka messaging, and vector database — billed per request rather than provisioned capacity. Founded by Mehmet Dogan and team, Upstash targets edge functions, serverless apps, and AI workloads needing low-latency data without 24/7 database costs. Andreessen Horowitz participated in seed funding alongside other investors.

Why Upstash is interesting

Upstash brought serverless pricing to Redis — a16z seed as edge and serverless developers rejected always-on DB bills for intermittent workloads.

Product & use cases

Upstash offers HTTP/REST-accessible Redis, QStash scheduling, Kafka, and vector indexes with global replication — designed for Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, and Lambda-style architectures.

  • Serverless apps needing Redis cache without persistent servers
  • Edge functions with globally replicated low-latency data
  • AI apps storing embeddings in Upstash Vector

Key facts

  • a16z seed participant
  • Serverless Redis, Kafka, and vector DB
  • HTTP API for edge and serverless integration
  • Per-request pricing model

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Upstash's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: True serverless economics for Redis/Kafka — pay per command aligns with intermittent serverless compute billing.

Serverless databases won developer mindshare for intermittent workloads; Upstash must expand enterprise features while keeping pricing simplicity.

  • Redis Cloud (Redis Ltd) incumbent

    Managed Redis; traditionally instance-based pricing.

  • AWS ElastiCache incumbent

    Cloud Redis; requires provisioned nodes.

  • PlanetScale / Neon adjacent

    Serverless SQL; different data model.

Notable stories

  • Upstash emerged as developers complained about paying for idle Redis instances on serverless apps — pricing model matched Vercel's intermittent compute (company positioning).

Industries

Developer Tools Infrastructure & Cloud AI & Machine Learning

FAQs about Upstash

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Upstash provides serverless Redis, Kafka, and vector database with per-request pricing.
Andreessen Horowitz among seed backers. See /fund/andreessen-horowitz.
Upstash bills per request without always-on instances; Redis Cloud traditionally provisions servers.
Yes — common integration for serverless and edge deployments.
Vector database for AI embeddings with serverless pricing.
Managed service compatible with Redis APIs; not self-hosted Redis fork.
Mehmet Dogan and co-founders per company materials.
Not publicly disclosed.
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