Company:Hasura

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Hasura, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryCloud computing, Developer tools
Predecessor34 Cross
Founded2017
FounderRajoshi Ghosh, Tanmai Gopal
HeadquartersSan Francisco , California , United States,

Bengaluru
,
Karnataka, India
Websitehasura.io

Hasura is a privately held software technology company that builds developer tooling products, including open source tools, backend as a service (BaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) products.[1][2] The Hasura GraphQL Engine provides GraphQL APIs over new or existing Postgres databases.[3] The Hasura Kubernetes Platform is a managed platform for building, deploying, and managing applications on Kubernetes.[4][5] The company was spun-off from 34 Cross, a start-up based in Chennai,[6] and as of 2020 has offices in San Francisco and Bangalore.[7]

History

Prior to founding Hasura, founders Tanmai Gopal and Rajoshi Ghosh started an online food delivery platform, Find a Kadai (lit. Find a Shop).[6] While building the platform, they realised that there were questions of what stack and which programmes to use. They found that they were solving some core issues like getting a C library to communicate with a Python library and integrate the best that is available, while checking app performance. This is how their startup gradually transitioned from a food delivery platform, to building tools for developers.[8]

The technology created for the platform was a database platform that combined the use of a NoSQL API with transaction management, called "Procrust.es." as a toolkit to be used by developers. The toolkit evolved into the Hasura platform, which was introduced in February 2017.[8]

In 2017, the company started a free online course (MOOC)[9] called Introduction to Modern Application Development (IMAD), in partnership with IIT Madras.[10][11][12]

In April 2018, the company announced that it has raised $1.6 million seed capital from Nexus Venture Partners[13] and GREE Ventures.[11][14][15]

Hasura became a certified vendor of the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program, which was created by The Cloud Native Computing Foundation 2018.[16]

In July 2018, the company announced the open source release of the Hasura GraphQL Engine to enable developers to set up GraphQL endpoints on their existing postgres applications.[17] In September 2018, the company introduced an open source event trigger system on Postgres for building serverless apps.[18][19]

In 2020 the company raised Series A and Series B in venture capital funding mere 6 months apart, taking its total capital raised to $36.5 Million dollars.[20]

Products

Hasura GraphQL Engine

The Hasura GraphQL Engine provides developers with GraphQL APIs for Postgres applications.[21][22][23] The engine can be deployed on Heroku.

Hasura Kubernetes Platform

Hasura provides developers with a data layer, API gateway with authentication middleware, and GitOps automation for rapid deployment.[24] It also provisions Kubernetes clusters on different cloud-vendors and simplifies migration of an application from one cloud-vendor to another.[25]

Open source

The company maintains several open source projects on GitHub, including gitkube,[8][4] Skor,[26] and graphqurl.[27]

References

  1. "Developer Tools Startup Hasura Raises $1.6M to Bring Kubernetes to App Developers - The Sociable" (in en-US). The Sociable. 2018-04-25. https://sociable.co/business/developer-tools-kubernetes/. 
  2. Culbertson, Joy (2017-12-23). "ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Application Development and DevOps" (in en). https://www.programmableweb.com/news/programmablewebs-most-interesting-apis-2017-application-development-and-devops/brief/2017/12/23. 
  3. "Hasura GraphQL Engine, Pusher’s Beams API, and The Linux Foundation's blockchain course - SD Times" (in en-US). SD Times. 2018-09-06. https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/sd-times-news-digest-hasura-graphql-engine-pushers-beams-api-and-the-linux-foundations-blockchain-course/. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Hasura Grabs $1.6 Million Seed Round from Nexus Venture Partners & GREE Ventures". SiliconIndia. https://www.siliconindia.com/news/business/Hasura-Grabs-16-Million-Seed-Round-from-Nexus-Venture-Partners--GREE-Ventures-nid-204205-cid-3.html. 
  5. "Top 10 rising container startups to watch in 2018-2019" (in en-US). TechGenix. 2018-07-16. https://techgenix.com/top-10-container-startups/. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Sridharan, Apuurva (27 Nov 2015). "Honey, we shrunk the app development time". The Hindu. https://bloncampus.thehindubusinessline.com/entrepreneurship/honey-we-shrunk-the-app-development-time/article7923871.ece. 
  7. Bureau, BW Online. "San Francisco and Bangalore Based Developer Tools Startup Hasura Raises 1 6M in Seed Funding" (in en). BW Disrupt. http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/San-Francisco-and-Bangalore-Based-Developer-Tools-Startup-Hasura-Raises-1-6M-in-Seed-Funding/25-04-2018-147456/. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Hasura Focuses on Making Kubernetes Easier with GitOps" (in en-US). 2018-05-15. https://thenewstack.io/hasura-focuses-on-making-kubernetes-easier-with-gitops/. 
  9. "Creating apps made easy" (in en). Deccan Chronicle. 2017-07-17. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/170717/creating-apps-made-easy.html. 
  10. Narayanan, Lavanya (2017-07-14). "Out of the classroom" (in en-IN). The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/imad-course-hasura-and-iit-m/article19278200.ece. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 IANS (2017-01-19). "DigitalOcean, Hasura to help students build apps on cloud". Business Standard India. https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/digitalocean-hasura-to-help-students-build-apps-on-cloud-117011900444_1.html. 
  12. "Why download an app when you can build one - Times of India". The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/why-download-an-app-when-you-can-build-one/articleshow/64021556.cms. 
  13. "Nexus Venture Partners Led $1.6 Mn Funding In Dev Tools Startup Hasura" (in en-US). Inc42 Media. 2018-04-26. https://inc42.com/buzz/nexus-led-1-6-mn-funding-in-dev-tools-startup-hasura/. 
  14. "Hasura snares $1.6M seed for developer-focused Kubernetes solution" (in en-US). TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/hasura-snares-1-6-m-seed-for-developer-focused-kubernetes-solution/. 
  15. "Nexus, GREE Ventures back app-building platform Hasura" (in en-US). VCCircle. 2017-10-17. https://www.vccircle.com/exclusive-nexus-gree-ventures-back-app-building-platform-hasura/. 
  16. "Software Conformance - Cloud Native Computing Foundation" (in en-US). https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/. 
  17. "Nexus Venture Partners, others back developer tool startup Hasura" (in en-US). VCCircle. 2018-04-25. https://www.vccircle.com/nexus-venture-partners-others-back-developer-tool-startup-hasura/. 
  18. "Hasura debuts open source event system to simplify serverless development" (in en-US). TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/05/hasura-debuts-event-system-to-simplify-serverless-development/. 
  19. "Hasura Launches Event Triggers on Postgres to Enable Building | Virtual-Strategy Magazine" (in en-US). https://virtual-strategy.com/2018/09/10/hasura-launches-event-triggers-on-postgres-to-enable-building/. 
  20. Lardinois, Frederic (8 Sep 2020). "Hasura raises $25 million Series B and adds MySQL support to its GraphQL service". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/hasura-raises-25-million-series-b-and-adds-mysql-support-to-its-graphql-service/. 
  21. Hargrave, Christian. "GraphQL as a service platform launches by Hasura" (in en-US). App Developer Magazine. https://appdevelopermagazine.com/graphql-as-a-service-platform-launches-by-hasura/. 
  22. "Hasura GraphQL Service Targets Existing Postgres Apps -- ADTmag" (in en). https://adtmag.com/articles/2018/07/16/hasura-graphql.aspx. 
  23. Anadiotis, George. "GraphQL for databases: A layer for universal database access? | ZDNet" (in en). ZDNet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/graphql-for-databases-a-layer-for-universal-database-access/. 
  24. "As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake" (in en-US). TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/as-kubernetes-grows-a-startup-ecosystem-develops-in-its-wake/. 
  25. "Hasura Raises $1.6 Million In Seed Funding To Bring Kubernetes To Application Developers - TechStory" (in en-US). TechStory. 2018-04-26. https://techstory.in/hasura-raises-1-6-million-seed-funding-2018/. 
  26. "GitHub hasura/skor". https://github.com/hasura/skor. 
  27. "GitHub hasura/graphqurl". https://github.com/hasura/graphqurl.