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Instant

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Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Give your AI a real backend. You get auth, permissions, storage, presence, and everything you need to ship apps your users will love.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Joe Averbukh

Founder

I truly believe each one of us has the ability to create the world they want to see. I love working with optimistic and principle-oriented people. Since 2020 I’ve been building with my best friend. We followed two rules initially 1) Build something we want for ourselves and 2) Make something more ambitious than previously. Since 2021 we added a third rule, 3) Make it a business. To that end we launched Jobsearch.dev, ExportHealth, Zeneca, Consistent, and now work on Instant, the modern Firebase

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Stepan Parunashvili

Founder

I work with people I will be friends with for a lifetime. I love hacking. I started off my career building a startup in China, and soon joined Wit.ai to work on an API for natural language processing. We used a suite of interesting tools, like Clojure, which heavily influenced my software design philosophy. We were acquired by Facebook. After 4 years, I had a stint at Airbnb, and decided to start Instant with my best friend. I also love to write; you can read some essays on my blog: stopa.io

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
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Founded 2022 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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