Netlify
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Type of business | Privately held company |
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Founded | February 7, 2014[1] |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
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URL | www |
Launched | March 2015[2] |
Netlify is a Danish-American[3][4] company that offers hosting and serverless backend services for static websites, headquartered in Dogpatch, San Francisco, California.
It features continuous deployment from Git across a global application delivery network,[5] serverless form handling, support for AWS Lambda functions,[6] and full integration with Let's Encrypt.[7]
History
Funding rounds
On August 16, 2016, Netlify raised $2.1 million from the founders of GitHub, Heroku, and Rackspace Cloud.[8]
On August 9, 2017, the company announced that it had raised $12 million in series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz.[9][10][11]
On October 9, 2018, the company issued a press release announcing that it had completed a series B round led by Kleiner Perkins—with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Slack and Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Yelp CEO and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman, among others—securing $30 million.[5][12]
Reception
On July 10, 2018, GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner predicted that "within 5 years, you'll build your next large scale, fully featured web app with JAMstack and deploy on Netlify."[13]
In an October 2018 press release co-authored by Netlify, CodePen co-founder Chris Coyier stated that "this is where the web is going, Netlify is just bringing it to us all a lot faster. With all the innovation in the space, this is an exciting time to be a developer."[14]
References
- ^ "Business filings for Netlify, Inc". Office of the Secretary of State of California. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Neal, Ryan (July 26, 2016). "Guest Post: NATS at Netlify - New Possibilities for Ultra-fast Web Content Publishing". NATS. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Blædel, Mathias (August 11, 2017). "Dansk startup får millionrygstød: Har Google og Facebook som kunder". Dagbladet Børsen (in Danish). Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ Wittorff, Jacob Ø. (August 25, 2017). "Dansk it-firma har landet en investering fra et af verdens største ventureselskaber: "De forlanger pengene 100 gange igen"". Computerworld (in Danish). Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ a b Sawers, Paul (October 9, 2018). "Netlify raises $30 million to modernize the web". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Miller, Ron (March 20, 2018). "Netlify wants to make it easier for web developers to use AWS Lambda event triggers". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ Biilmann, Matt (January 15, 2016). "A World's First. Free SSL with Let's Encrypt". Netlify. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
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(help) - ^ Lynley, Matthew (August 17, 2017). "Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Weinberger, Matt (August 9, 2017). "A hot startup is using $12 million from Andreessen Horowitz to pursue a 'holy grail' of web technology". Business Insider. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ Hanley Frank, Blair (August 9, 2017). "Netlify raises $12 million to advance web development". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ Levine, Peter (August 9, 2017). "Netlify". Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ Miller, Ron (October 9, 2018). "Netlify just got $30 million to change the way developers build websites". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Tom Preston-Werner [@mojombo] (July 10, 2018). "Prediction: within 5 years, you'll build your next large scale, fully featured web app with #JAMstack and deploy on @Netlify" (Tweet). Retrieved October 9, 2018 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with a global 'Application Delivery Network'" (Press release). Netlify. October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.