Jaime Morgan Hitchcock

SurrealDB 3.0 & $38M Series A with Brothers Toby and Jamie Morgan Hitchcock

In a first for the show, both brothers join on separate lines — Toby and Jamie Morgan Hitchcock, co-founders of SurrealDB, calling at 5:50 AM from San Francisco while their UK team launches a product. They describe SurrealDB as a multimodal database begun in 2015 (launched 2022) that unifies time series, graph, document, and relational data, which has become a strong fit for AI agents needing memory, and they talk about 20+ years of working together as brothers. They announce SurrealDB 3.0 releasing imminently and a Series A extension taking the round to $38M ($44M since seed), adding UK/European investors like Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital alongside FirstMark. The conversation also covers why agents need more than vector/RAG (temporal and graph data), a 'headless' app future, spending the new capital on US go-to-market, balancing enterprise stability with fast shipping, and how open-source adoption drove enterprise production usage.

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