
Guepard offers instant database environments for development, CI/CD, DevOps, testing, QA, and AI agents, enabling teams to ship faster with improved quality by leveraging production data. The platform allows users to deploy databases in one click, choosing their system and configuring servers. Key features include instant database branching, which allows cloning terabytes of data in seconds without data duplication, bookmarking changes into snapshots for version tracking, and one-click time travel for seamless rollback. Guepard also offers 'Scale to Zero' to stop databases during idle periods and 'Private Node' for secure, dedicated clusters, including on-premise deployments. The platform is API-first, facilitating integration with external tools for CI/CD and DevOps automation. Guepard boasts extreme performance with 5-second cloning for 1TB, 80% storage savings, and 10x faster releases. They offer a free tier and an enterprise plan. Guepard is built by software engineers for software engineers.

Guepard offers instant database environments for development, CI/CD, DevOps, testing, QA, and AI agents, enabling teams to ship faster with improved quality by leveraging production data. The platform allows users to deploy databases in one click, choosing their system and configuring servers. Key features include instant database branching, which allows cloning terabytes of data in seconds without data duplication, bookmarking changes into snapshots for version tracking, and one-click time travel for seamless rollback. Guepard also offers 'Scale to Zero' to stop databases during idle periods and 'Private Node' for secure, dedicated clusters, including on-premise deployments. The platform is API-first, facilitating integration with external tools for CI/CD and DevOps automation. Guepard boasts extreme performance with 5-second cloning for 1TB, 80% storage savings, and 10x faster releases. They offer a free tier and an enterprise plan. Guepard is built by software engineers for software engineers.
Product: Serverless database platform with instant branching, time-travel, copy-on-write storage, and ephemeral DBs for dev, CI/CD, and AI-agent workflows
Performance claims: 5-second cloning for 1TB and ~80% storage savings via copy-on-write (Guepard File System)
Founders: Koutheir Cherni (Co‑Founder & CEO) and Ghassen Menaouar (Co‑Founder & CPO)
Team size: Approximately 14 employees
Early-stage funding with investors including Berkeley SkyDeck and Schematic Ventures
Developer and data workflow tooling for database provisioning, testing, CI/CD, DevOps, and AI-agent experimentation
Developer tools / Database platform
$2.1M
Dealroom records a Seed round of $2.1M (Sep 2025) listing Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator and Schematic Ventures as investors.
Crunchbase lists multiple Pre-Seed rounds with obfuscated amounts/dates.
“Early-stage investors include Berkeley SkyDeck (SkyDeck Berkeley) and Schematic Ventures”