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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cThis funding enables Hasura to greatly increase our innovation velocity, which in turn allows our rapidly-expanding user base to deliver software even faster,” said Hasura CEO Tanmai Gopal. “With this funding round, our investors and the Hasura team are doubling down on our vision to solve data access and unlock the next decade of developer productivity. We\u2019re going to be addressing the needs of our users by adding support for their favourite data systems much faster,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hasura had been founded in 2017 by Tanmai Gopal, who had a degree from IIT Madras, and Rajoshi Ghosh, who’d studied at National University of Singapore. The duo had previously founded a software development company named 34Cross, which initially built web & mobile applications, but then transitioned to building automation tools. These tools eventually formed the seeds of their new company, Hasura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hasura — a portmanteau of Asura, the Sanskrit word for demon, and programming language Haskell — helps make web application development faster by eliminating bottlenecks to data access for frontend and fullstack developers. The platform cuts down the time and niche expertise required to build GraphQL APIs for data access by automating the repetitive work involved in mapping models to APIs with common access patterns like pagination, filtering, joining, setting up authorization rules, and optimizing performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hasura has now been downloaded more than 400 million times and has earned more than 25,000 GitHub stars since its introduction in 2018. Its products are now used by major companies including Airbus, Walmart, Swiggy and others. The company has offices in Bangalore and San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n