Founded in 2025 by Lev Kokotov, PgDog is an open-source proxy written in Rust that sits between applications and PostgreSQL to provide connection pooling, load balancing, automatic horizontal sharding and cross-shard query aggregation without requiring application or schema changes. The company reports that dozens of companies are already using its proxy in production and it claims compatibility with managed Postgres offerings like AWS RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Supabase and Neon. PgDog emphasizes zero-code changes for adopters and differentiates from alternatives (e.g., PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, Citus) by offering a unified layer combining multiple capabilities. The team is actively hiring key engineering talent, including a Founding Software Engineer, as part of its growth after the seed raise. Financially, the company has just completed a $5.5M seed round to fund scaling and team expansion; no additional revenue or user-metric details were disclosed in the articles.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2026