Fauna is a distributed serverless document-relational database company that shut down its paid service in May 2025 after being unable to raise the capital required to continue operations. Fauna's Twitter Score is 8.0 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #113,570 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Fauna was co-founded by Evan Weaver and Matt Freels, positioning itself as a serverless database built to help development teams ship and scale without managing traditional database infrastructure. On March 19, 2025, Fauna announced it would sunset its paid database service, citing an inability to raise the required capital, and the service formally ended on May 30, 2025. Fauna committed to releasing an open-source version of its core database technology following the shutdown.
Fauna had previously raised $27 million in a funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, announced in July 2020. The company was also formerly backed by ADDITION, GV, CRV, Quest Venture Partners, Point72 Ventures, Capital One Growth Ventures, Data Collective, and Ulu Ventures. Fauna has published 4,430 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 23 accounts, with 111 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Fauna include 46 founders, 7 angel investors, 11 influencers and 7 VCs. Among them are John Wang, Nader Dabit, Scoopy Trooples, Alex Van de Sande avsa.eth, JB and Minion.