Supabase Bets on Postgres to Build the Next Platform for Developers

Paul Copplestone didn’t plan on raising capital, certainly not while tucked away in Wānaka, a remote town on New Zealand’s South Island better known for postcard views than venture capital dealmaking. But venture capital came anyway. Accel partner Gonzalo Mocorrea didn’t send a calendar invite. He asked for an address. Then, in a scene that sounds more like a startup legend than a standard Series D, Mocorrea showed up in person. “He literally showed up on my doorstep in Wānaka, which is really not easy to get to,” Copplestone recalled. Over the next couple of days, the pair would have sporadic chats “a couple hours here and there” with no formal meeting on the books. Then Mocorrea called in backup: Accel partner Arun Mathew. Copplestone, both amused and alarmed, tr