Cinderbase

Cinderbase is a database that handles the hard parts, sharding, replication, scaling, so a small team can run serious load without hiring a platform crew. You get the power of the heavy infrastructure without the headcount it usually demands.

We partnered early because the founders came out of the teams that built this stuff at scale, so they knew which complexity to hide and which to expose. That judgment is the whole game in infrastructure, and it cannot be faked.

The edge is the developer experience layered on top of genuinely hard engineering. Plenty of teams can do one or the other. Doing both is rare. Cinderbase nailed it, so adoption grew through word of mouth in exactly the technical communities that matter. By Series B the largest users were betting their products on it, and that trust is the moat.