EdgeDB grew out of MagicStack, a Toronto software consultancy that Yury Selivanov and Elvis Pranskevichus started in 2008. Years of in-house tools and a failed "Airbnb for boats" convinced them the database layer needed reinventing. To build it they first contributed async/await to Python and created uvloop and asyncpg, then incorporated EdgeDB Inc. in San Francisco in late 2019, shipped EdgeDB 1.0 in February 2022, raised a $15 million Series A, rebranded as Gel in 2025, and in December 2025 sh
EdgeDB grew out of MagicStack, a Toronto software consultancy that Yury Selivanov and Elvis Pranskevichus started in 2008. Years of in-house tools and a failed "Airbnb for boats" convinced them the database layer needed reinventing. To build it they first contributed async/await to Python and created uvloop and asyncpg, then incorporated EdgeDB Inc. in San Francisco in late 2019, shipped EdgeDB 1.0 in February 2022, raised a $15 million Series A, rebranded as Gel in 2025, and in December 2025 shut the company down as the team joined Vercel.
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