Release blog · May 2026
Release added Supabase support so teams can provision isolated PostgreSQL database branches for every pull-request environment with automatic provisioning and full schema isolation.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Release is a privately held developer-platform company that sells Environments as a Service (EaaS): on-demand, isolated full-stack environments for development, testing, QA, and production-like delivery. It positions itself as a Vercel alternative for full-stack apps and a Heroku replacement, with extra products around Instant Datasets, Release Delivery, and remote development environments.
Primary product
Environments as a Service (EaaS) platform for on-demand ephemeral full-stack environments and release delivery
Founded
2019
Headquarters
530 Divisadero St, San Francisco, California 94117, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / platform engineering
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
usage-based pricing
enterprise software
developer platform
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$23M
Latest round
Series A · Oct 2021
Latest amount
$20M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder
Co-founder
Chief Revenue Officer
Work & culture
Public materials describe a mission-driven, developer-focused company that emphasizes speed, simplicity, and helping teams release ideas faster. Hiring and blog posts suggest a remote-first, collaborative, high-ownership culture that values work-life balance and practical engineering.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
Consumption-based, hourly billing with plan tiers; no per-user charges. Public plans include Free, Teams, Enterprise, and Release Delivery.
Differentiators
- —Ephemeral full-stack environments created on demand, often from every pull request
- —Production-like data via Instant Datasets
- —Supports development, testing, QA, staging, and production workflows
- —Can run in Release's cloud or the customer's AWS/Kubernetes environment
- —On-prem / VPC delivery option for SaaS vendors
- —Consumption-based pricing instead of per-seat pricing
- —Integrations with common VCS, cloud, CI/CD, and observability tools
- —Designed to remove environment bottlenecks and accelerate release velocity
Technology
Kubernetes
Docker
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Terraform
Slack
Datadog
Tonic
Docker Hub
Artifactory
ECR
LaunchDarkly
GraphQL
Redis
Sidekiq
React
Customers
DebtBook
Datasaur.ai
Mosaic
Chipper Cash
Noteable
Simon Data
Monad
Shogun
BraveCare
TripActions
Competitors
Vercel
Heroku
CircleCI
Jenkins
LaunchDarkly
JetBrains
Imgix
Raycast
Syntouch
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
983.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Release blog · Apr 2026
Release added Neon support for instant isolated PostgreSQL branches in ephemeral environments, extending its Instant Datasets workflow.
Release blog · Apr 2026
Release added PlanetScale integration to provision isolated database branches for every pull-request environment.
Release blog · Apr 2025
A technical article showing how Release’s ephemeral environments can support AI-assisted end-to-end testing workflows.
Release blog · Mar 2025
A long-form product and thought-leadership post arguing that ephemeral environments reduce infrastructure cost, developer wait time, and release friction.
Jobs and careers at Release
0 jobs at Release
No open positions
Check back later for new openings