Boring is a feature
If you remember our infrastructure exists, we have failed. The best praise we hear is "oh, we forgot Lambda was even there."
About Lambda Backends should be boring.
Backends should be boring.
So you can build the interesting parts.
Lambda was founded in 2023 by three engineers who were tired of YAML and 3 a.m. pages. We're building the typed, observable backend platform we wished existed.
Origin
Why we started Lambda
Before Lambda, our founders spent a decade at infrastructure companies you've heard of. We watched the same scene play out: a small team builds something great, hits scale, and then spends 60% of their time wrestling Kubernetes manifests, debugging cold-start latency, and arguing about which cloud's IAM dialect to learn next.
We thought there had to be a better way — a backend you could deploy with one command, observe without a separate vendor, and trust without writing a runbook. So in early 2023, we left, opened a Notion doc titled "Boring backends manifesto," and started writing.
Three years later, the principles haven't changed. The product has grown — managed Postgres, edge functions, built-in analytics, RBAC — but the goal is the same one we wrote down on day one: make backends boring, so engineers can ship the interesting parts.
Lambda by the numbers
Real metrics from a real company. Updated quarterly — last refreshed April 2026.
12k+
developers shipping every day
38
edge regions, six continents
99.99%
uptime, trailing twelve months
$24M
Series A, March 2025
Principles
What we believe
Four lines we wrote on day one. They've survived three product pivots and a Series A.
Types over tickets
A compiler error you fix in 30 seconds beats a runtime alert you debug at midnight. We push as much correctness left as we can.
Ship in public
Roadmap, status page, weekly changelog, post-mortems within 72 hours. If we know it, you know it. No surprises.
Customer success > vanity metrics
We don't chase logos for the homepage. We chase teams who ship faster, sleep better, and want to keep us as a vendor for ten years.
Timeline
How we got here
The short version, with footnotes for the curious.
- 2023 Q1
2023 Q1
Three engineers, one prototype
Founded in a Brooklyn co-working space. First commit lands on a snowy Tuesday in February. The prototype deploys a Postgres + HTTP function in 90 seconds.
- 2023 Q4
2023 Q4
Y Combinator, Winter '24 batch
Accepted into YC W24. Move ten people into a sublet in San Francisco for three months. Ship the public beta the week before Demo Day.
- 2025 Q1
2025 Q1
Series A — $24M, led by Index
Index Ventures leads a $24M Series A with participation from Y Combinator, Founders Fund, and angels from Stripe, Vercel, and Linear.
- 2025 Q3
2025 Q3
GA across 38 regions
Leave beta. Cross 10,000 daily-active developer accounts. Open offices in Berlin and Bengaluru. Hire our first SRE — finally.
- 2026 Q1
2026 Q1
Edge functions, pgvector, RBAC
Largest product release to date. Edge functions go GA. Postgres ships pgvector and PITR. SAML SSO + audit logs land for Enterprise.
Team
The people behind Lambda
We're 42 people across Brooklyn, Berlin, and Bengaluru. Engineers, designers, writers, ops — all working on the same boring backend.
AV
Anya Voss
Co-founder & CEO
Previously infra at Stripe and Datadog. Writes the company-wide weekly memo.
MO
Mateo Ortiz
Co-founder & CTO
Built the Postgres extension layer. Maintains a small Linux distribution on the side.
PR
Priya Reddy
Head of Engineering
Ten years at Cloudflare. Holds the team's only formal SRE certification.
JB
Jonas Brandt
Head of Design
Designed the original dashboard on a flight from Berlin to JFK. Still iterating.
SL
Sara Lin
Head of DevRel
Writes the docs you actually want to read. Records demos in one take.
FO
Felix Okafor
Head of Security
Found the first SOC 2 control we shipped. Will find the last one too.
Backed by operators
We took capital from people who've built and run the kind of infrastructure we're rebuilding.
Index Ventures
Y Combinator
Founders Fund
Sequoia Scout
South Park Commons
Angel collective
We're hiring
Want to help build it?
We're a remote-first team of 42 across Brooklyn, Berlin, and Bengaluru. Engineering, design, devrel, sales, security — we're hiring across the board.