Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins

Prisma, a Munich, Germany-based SAAS developer, announced raising a $4.5 million seed investment round.

The money was provided by the American VC Kleiner Perkins. At the same time, the company announced changing its namde from Graphcool in Prisma.

Prisma was founded in 2016 by by Johannes Schickling (CEO) and Søren Bramer Schmidt (CTO) developed a performant open-source GraphQL ORM layer and the fastest way to build a GraphQL server with any database. GraphQL is becoming the new standard for API development and is used in production by leading tech-companies such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub and many others. Designed as a cross-platform technology, GraphQL unlocks a rich ecosystem for both client-to-server and server-to-server communication.

The first version of Prisma was developed in early 2016, shortly after GraphQL was first released. Originally conceived as the query engine powering the Graphcool BaaS, it has gained widespread use in large and small companies adopting GraphQL. Originally conceived as the query engine powering the Graphcool BaaS, it has gained widespread use in large and small companies adopting GraphQL. In 2018, Prisma released its 1.0 version as a standalone infrastructure component under the Apache 2 license.