Upstash, Inc.

Upstash, Inc. is a technology startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company specializes in developing cloud-native infrastructure and developer tools tailored to the cloud and AI ecosystems. Its core products focus on serverless data storage and infrastructure solutions, enabling developers to build fast, scalable applications with flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing. Upstash primarily targets developers working in backend, machine learning, and AI domains, as well as teams building AI copilots and enterprises requiring continuously updated technical documentation integrated with AI workflows.

Upstash’s product portfolio includes Context7, an AI documentation integration platform designed to bridge large language models with always-current technical resources, and cloud-native offerings such as Upstash Redis and Upstash Kafka, which provide serverless Redis and event-based messaging capabilities respectively. The company operates on a subscription-based SaaS business model with usage-based pricing tiers and offers both free and paid plans. Upstash is privately held, with $1.9 million in seed funding secured from key investors including Y Combinator, Ali Ghodsi of Databricks, Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, and Yetkin Silahtaroglu.

Committed to developer empowerment, Upstash emphasizes open standards and maintains permissive open-source licensing models, such as the MIT license for Context7. While being a relatively young company, Upstash has established a presence through GitHub-hosted projects and maintains official communication channels including Twitter and LinkedIn. As of August 2025, it employs between 26 and 50 professionals and continues to focus on innovation in cloud-native and AI-integrated developer tools.