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FaunaDB was a serverless, distributed database company founded by former Twitter employees Evan Weaver and Matt Freels. Headquartered in San Francisco, with operations in Boston, the company focused on providing a strongly consistent, multi-model data platform for global-scale applications. It raised significant venture funding and aimed to support modern cloud-native applications with features like low-latency global access, scalability, and security. The flagship product, Fauna, was a serverless database that combined relational and document capabilities in JSON format. It supported various data models, including document, relational, graph, and temporal data, all accessible through a unified query interface. FaunaDB's architecture allowed for active-active, masterless design, ensuring high availability and low write latency. The company served notable clients such as Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, and Anaplan, catering to use cases like dynamic web apps, multi-tenant SaaS, and data unification across silos.