SurrealDB has raised an additional $23 million in a Series A extension, bringing its total funding to date to $44 million and expanding its Series A round to $38 million. The new capital brings Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital into the round, joining existing investors FirstMark and Georgian. As part of the investment, Mike Chalfen, Founder of Chalfen Ventures, has joined SurrealDB’s board.
The company positions the funding as a pivotal step toward advancing AI-native infrastructure. SurrealDB argues that while artificial intelligence models have evolved rapidly, the underlying data layer has lagged behind. Modern AI agents require persistent memory, unified access to structured and unstructured data, synchronized context as systems scale, and real-time performance at enterprise levels.
SurrealDB says its platform was architected from the ground up to address these needs. The company describes its product as the first truly AI-native, multi-model database that enables relational, document, graph, vector, search, geospatial, time-series, and key-value data to coexist natively within a single system. Rather than stitching together multiple data tools, SurrealDB aims to consolidate infrastructure into a single, cohesive platform for AI-era workloads.
The funding comes amid strong growth metrics. According to the company, SurrealDB has recorded 2.3 million downloads, 31,000 GitHub stars, and more than 1,000 forks, alongside increasing adoption in production environments worldwide. The company attributes its traction to demand for simplified, scalable data architectures that reduce integration complexity, latency, and cost.
The announcement coincides with the general availability release of SurrealDB 3.0, described as the company’s most mature and production-ready version to date. Leadership says the combination of new capital and a major product milestone underscores its ambition to define the database layer for AI-native applications.
The new funding will be used to accelerate enterprise-grade reliability and performance improvements, expand security and governance features, enhance cloud scalability across new regions, strengthen production support and deployment tooling, and grow the company’s global team.
SurrealDB says its focus remains on delivering a stable, high-performance, enterprise-ready platform as AI systems transition from experimentation to full-scale production environments.
KEY QUOTES
“This fresh investment demonstrates a growing level of excitement for our category-defining, developer-friendly database. Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital have joined this round due to our strong momentum in real-world usage, and clear path to large-scale production.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Co-Founder And CEO, SurrealDB
“Every compute era requires a new database paradigm. We are in the AI era, but most ambitious enterprise AI projects stall. They need a data platform that makes unprecedentedly large-scale contextual information available to agentic systems, in a way that is synchronised across data sources, fast, and secure. SurrealDB is that platform.”
Mike Chalfen, Founder, Chalfen Ventures
