Nikolay and Michael discuss the Postgres startup ecosystem — some recent closures, some recent fundraising announcements, and their thoughts on where things are going and what they'd like to see.
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Prediction from Dax Raad https://x.com/thdxr/status/1808972166752580039
• OtterTune shut down https://x.com/andy_pavlo/status/1801687420330770841
• Snaplet shutting down https://www.snaplet.dev/post/snaplet-is-shutting-down
• bit.io shut down https://blog.bit.io/whats-next-for-bit-io-joining-databricks-ace9a40bce0d?gi=8ef885454eef
• Timescale acquired PopSQL https://www.timescale.com/blog/best-postgresql-gui-popsql-joins-timescale
• Aiven https://aiven.io
• Hasura https://hasura.io
• Supabase https://supabase.com
• Neon https://neon.tech
• Tembo https://tembo.io
• FerretDB https://www.ferretdb.com
• Hydra https://www.hydra.so
• pgEdge https://www.pgedge.com
• Tembo raised $14m https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/08/database-startup-tembo-lands-new-cash-to-expand
• Ry Walker’s Cybertruck with STARTUP license plate https://x.com/rywalker/status/1810061804380557516 
• Supabase acquired OrioleDB https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-acquires-oriole
• Michael Stonebraker Turing Award Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGeKi6T6QI
• Microsoft acquired Citus https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale
• Crunchy Bridge https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge
• PeerDB https://www.peerdb.io
• ParadeDB https://www.paradedb.com
• pganalyze https://pganalyze.com
• DBeaver https://dbeaver.io
• Postico / Egger Apps https://eggerapps.at/postico2
• Postgres Compare https://www.postgrescompare.com
• Coroot https://coroot.com
• okmeter https://okmeter.io
• Slides from Nikolay’s talk on monitoring https://bit.ly/pg-monitoring 
• Nile https://www.thenile.dev
• Ubicloud https://www.ubicloud.com

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork