Vibe coding is taking the tech industry by storm, and it’s not just the Lovables and Replits of the world who are winning. The startups that are building the infrastructure behind them are also benefiting.
Supabase, the open source database platform that has become the backend of choice in the vibecoding world, has raised $100 million at a $5 billion valuation, just months after closing on $200 million for $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone has a surprising strategy. He continues to turn down multi-million dollar corporate contracts from deep-pocketed but demanding clients. Instead, he’s betting that if he sticks to his own product vision, the world will come closer to him. So far, he was right.
Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie Bort speaks with Copplestone to explore the rise of Supabase and what it means for Vibecoding, developers, and the database giants that have historically dominated this market.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
Why Coplestone believes “Oracle won’t be gone in a generation” The technical landscape Supabase is funding to make Postgres even more scalable How to decide which corporate deals to turn down and why it still “feels so painful”
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