Prisma

Prisma

Open-source ORM and database tooling

Overview

Prisma offers developer tools to help build data-heavy applications. Its products include Accelerate, a global database cache with scalable connection pooling; Pulse, which provides real-time, type-safe database events; and an open-source Node.js and TypeScript ORM that makes it easier to interact with databases in code. Accelerate caches data and manages many connections between apps and databases to lower load, while Pulse streams real-time events so apps can respond quickly. The goal is to help developers and businesses build scalable, reliable data-driven applications more efficiently by providing cohesive tools in a remote-first environment.

About Prisma

Simplify's Rating
Why Prisma is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$56.5M

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Founded

2016

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Prisma 8 Early Access shipped May 22, 2026, signaling strong product momentum.
  • Prisma 8 benchmarks hit about 90% of raw PG throughput on June 11, 2026.
  • Prisma released v7.7.0 in April 2026 and continues active weekly engineering velocity.

What critics are saying

  • Standalone Prisma Accelerate retires December 1, 2026, forcing customer migration.
  • Prisma 8 rewrite risks breaking workflows, delaying upgrades, and fragmenting the community.
  • Supabase, Drizzle, and raw SQL tooling compress Prisma’s ORM differentiation quickly.

What makes Prisma unique

  • Prisma Next rewrites ORM for extensibility, composability, and AI-agent workflows.
  • Prisma 8 keeps schema-first contracts while adding type-safe migrations and queries.
  • Prisma’s open-source ORM plus Data Platform bundles client, caching, and realtime tooling.

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Funding

Total Funding

$56.5M

Meets

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
Series B Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$35M
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$45M
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Benefits

Stock options

Vacation days

Parental leave

Sick leave

Generous recurring tech budget

Yearly company offsite

Co-working spaces

401k matching

Medical, dental, & vision cover

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

3%
Prisma
Aug 26th, 2024
Announcing TypedSQL: Make your raw SQL queries type-safe with Prisma ORM

With today's Prisma ORM v5.19.0 release, Prisma Data, Inc. is thrilled to announce TypedSQL: The best way to write complex and highly performant queries.

Business Wire
Mar 19th, 2024
Redpanda Serverless Delivers Powerful Streaming Data Platform As A Fully Managed Pay-As-You-Go Service

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At Kafka Summit London, Redpanda announced the availability of Redpanda Serverless, a fully managed, pay-as-you-go edition of its powerful, cost-effective streaming data platform. Redpanda Serverless empowers developers to get started with streaming data in seconds and to automatically scale the service up or down to match their data workloads. As with all Redpanda products, Redpanda Serverless is fully Apache Kafka® API-compatible, ensuring it works with the complete Kafka ecosystem without requiring changes to application code. “The magic of Redpanda Serverless is its ability to create a globally available cluster in the blink of an eye,” said Redpanda CEO and founder Alex Gallego. “Engineered from the ground up for massive multi-tenancy, speed and performance, Redpanda Serverless is the most cost effective and simplest way to get started with streaming, whether you are a solo dev just getting started or an expert at a large enterprise looking to absorb spikes and scale to zero during downtime.”. With Redpanda Serverless, developers will be able to tap into the Redpanda streaming data ecosystem to build new real-time applications

KILL NET SWITCH
Jan 3rd, 2024
Extremely exploited Chromium bug traced to a Google OAuth endpoint

To substantiate {that a} MultiLogin endpoint has been used to regenerate session cookies within the exploit, CloudSEK conversed with Prisma and reverse engineered the exploit executable supplied by the menace actor.

Prisma
Oct 6th, 2023
Support for Serverless Database Drivers in Prisma ORM Is Now in Preview

Prisma is releasing Preview support for serverless database drivers from Neon and PlanetScale.

Prisma
Sep 28th, 2023
SQLite on the Edge: Prisma Support for Turso is in Early Access

Prisma is excited to share that Prisma ORM is adding Early Access support for Turso.

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