# DBOS, Inc.

> DBOS, Inc. is a San Francisco- and Cambridge-based developer infrastructure company commercializing durable execution technology born from a joint MIT-Stanford research project led by Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker and Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia. Its flagship open-source library, DBOS Transact, adds crash-proof workflow orchestration and built-in observability to ordinary Python and TypeScript programs by persisting application state in Postgres, so software resumes exactly where it left off after a failure - without a separate workflow server. The company pairs the library with DBOS Conductor and DBOS Cloud for managing and hosting reliable backends, AI agents, and long-running workflows.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States (also operates from Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- **Founders:** Qian Li (CEO, Co-founder), Peter Kraft (CTO, Co-founder), Michael Stonebraker (Architect, Co-founder (creator of Postgres, Turing Award laureate)), Andy Palmer (Chairman, Co-founder), Matei Zaharia (Founding Advisor (creator of Apache Spark, Databricks CTO))
- **Team size:** ~14 employees
- **Products:** DBOS Transact, DBOS Conductor, DBOS Cloud
- **Notable:** Raised $8.5M seed round in March 2024 led by Engine Ventures., Founded by Turing Award laureate and Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker alongside Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia., Released DBOS Transact as open source, achieving strong traction on GitHub and Hacker News.

## Products & services

- **DBOS Transact** — Open-source, lightweight durable execution library for Python, TypeScript (with Go, Java and Kotlin support) that guarantees workflows run to completion with exactly-once execution by persisting state in Postgres. Adds durable workflows, automatic OpenTelemetry observability, and access control via decorators.
- **DBOS Conductor** — A control plane for managing, observing, and orchestrating AI agents and long-running workflows built with DBOS Transact.
- **DBOS Cloud** — A transactional serverless platform for deploying and running DBOS functions, workflows, and reliable backends, with automatic outage recovery and a production 'time travel' debugger.

## Achievements

- Raised $8.5M seed round in March 2024 led by Engine Ventures.
- Founded by Turing Award laureate and Postgres creator Michael Stonebraker alongside Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia.
- Released DBOS Transact as open source, achieving strong traction on GitHub and Hacker News.
- Built durable execution technology on three years of joint MIT-Stanford research.
- Introduced a database-powered operating system concept positioned as an alternative to Linux-style state management.

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — DBOS launched publicly with an $8.5M seed round and released the DBOS Transact open-source durable execution library.
- **2025-01** — Show HN debut of DBOS TypeScript - lightweight durable execution built on Postgres - drew significant Hacker News discussion.
- **2025-08** — CEO Qian Li featured on Software Engineering Radio (episode 681) discussing DBOS durable execution and serverless computing.

## Links

- Website: https://www.dbos.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dbos-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DBOS_Inc
- GitHub: https://github.com/dbos-inc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DBOS-Inc

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Last updated: 2026-07-06