The name Hasura comes from a portmanteau of Asura, the Sanskrit word for a demon, and Haskell. Asura refers to daemons or computer programs that run as background processes. Haskell is the functional programming language we used to build Hasura in and is Hasura’s one true.

The Hasura GraphQL Engine gives you instant, realtime, high-performance GraphQL on any Postgres application, existing or new. It also includes an event trigger system to help you build serverless apps.

We are a venture-backed company with offices in Bangalore and San Francisco. Our investors include Nexus Venture Partners and GREE.