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Turbopuffer

5 of 7 claims verified

5 of 7 key claims verified, 1 thin, 1 plausible with source conflict

Claims

  • [verified]

    Turbopuffer reached roughly $100M in annualized revenue by March 2026, up from about $75M at the end of 2025

    Confirmed by independent journalism (Globe and Mail, which put 2026 revenue at 'more than US$100-million') and by founder Simon Eskildsen's own post: 'turbopuffer crossed $100M run-rate in March. 19mo after $1M.' Sacra (third-party analyst) corroborates with $75M end-2025 to $100M March 2026.

    theglobeandmail.comsacra.comx.com

  • [verified]

    Company is profitable and has raised less than $1M in outside capital, funded via angel money from Lachy Groom (2024) plus a December 2025 round joined by Thrive Capital

    Globe and Mail specifies the raise at 'between US$700,000 and US$900,000' and states the company is 'already profitable.' BetaKit confirms Thrive Capital (led by Joshua Kushner) and Lachy Groom as investors. Exact round size undisclosed.

    theglobeandmail.combetakit.comsacra.com

  • [verified]

    Founded October 2023 by CEO Simon Eskildsen and CTO Justine Li, both former Shopify engineers who scaled Shopify's infrastructure from 1,000 to 1,000,000 requests per second over eight years

    Consistent across independent press and the company's own about page.

    theglobeandmail.combetakit.comturbopuffer.com

  • [verified]

    Roughly 1,200 customers, including Cursor, Anthropic, Notion, Cognition, Harvey, Bridgewater, Ramp, Linear, Legora, Superhuman, Atlassian, Granola, and Telus

    Customer count (~1,200) is a single independent-press figure (Globe and Mail); the named logos are corroborated directly by the founder's own customer-thank-you post.

    theglobeandmail.comx.combetakit.com

  • [plausible]

    Headcount grew roughly 5x in 2025 alongside 10x revenue growth

    The '10x revenue, 5x headcount' framing comes from Turbopuffer's own 2025 recap, cited by BetaKit. But absolute headcount is a moving, inconsistently-dated target across sources: 22 employees (BetaKit, reporting ~April 2026), 37 employees (Globe and Mail / Tracxn, ~June-July 2026), 50+ listed on the company's own current about page (fetched August 2026). Direction is real; the specific snapshot number depends entirely on which month you ask.

    betakit.comtheglobeandmail.comtracxn.comturbopuffer.com

  • [thin]

    Revenue grew approximately 2,400% year-over-year

    Single-source Sacra analyst estimate. The figure does not reconcile with Sacra's own adjacent numbers on the same page ($75M end-2025 to $100M March 2026 is roughly +33%, not 2,400%), implying the YoY comparison uses a much earlier, unstated baseline (e.g., March 2025 ARR). No primary source states this percentage directly.

    sacra.com

  • [verified]

    Turbopuffer manages trillions of vectors/documents and tens of petabytes of data, with writes at 10M+/s and 25k+ queries/s

    Company's own stated operational metrics ('We host 1T+ documents, handle writes at 10M+ writes/s, and serve 25k+ queries/s'), corroborated in substance by BetaKit's 'trillions of vectors and tens of petabytes of data.'

    turbopuffer.combetakit.com

Gaps

  • No disclosed valuation for the December 2025 Thrive Capital / Lachy Groom round.
  • Exact size of the December 2025 funding round is undisclosed in all sources checked.
  • Current, single-point-in-time headcount could not be pinned down; sources from different months in 2026 disagree (22 vs 37 vs 50+).