Company:Pantheon Systems

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Pantheon Systems, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded2010; 16 years ago (2010)[1]
Founders
  • Zack Rosen
  • David Strauss
  • Josh Koenig
  • Matt Cheney
Headquarters
San Francisco, California[2]
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Bill Ingram (Interim CEO)
Bill Ingram (Interim CFO)
David Strauss (CTO)
ProductsPantheon Platform
Number of employees
378+ (June 2021)
Websitepantheon.io

Pantheon Systems, Inc.[3] is a privately held San Francisco-based corporation founded in 2010.

The company's flagship service, Pantheon, is a WebOps platform[4] for websites powered by open-source Drupal and WordPress CMS, as well as NextJS and GatsbyJS Jamstack front-ends. It is an app-specific PaaS provider. Technologically, Pantheon applications run as software-as-a-service instead of running on users' own servers. Pantheon's service is built on top of Google Cloud Platform.[5][6]

History

Founded in 2010, Pantheon Systems, Inc. raised a $1.3 million seed round to start. They subsequently raised $5 million Series A financing from Foundry Group, with previous investors being Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, Floodgate, and Founders Collective bringing the total amount to $6.3 million.[7]

In 2014, Pantheon raised $21.5 million in Series B financing led by Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) with participation from OpenView Partners and existing investors Foundry Group and First Round Capital. As part of the funding round, Rory O'Driscoll, Partner at ScaleVP joined the board of directors.[8]


In 2019, Sageview Capital led a Series D funding round of $40 million, bringing total funding to over $100 million.[9]

On July 13, 2021, WebOps platform Pantheon raises $100M from SoftBank Vision Fund. The $100 million Series E funding is at a valuation of over $1 billion.[10]

Hosting of hate group websites

In April 2023, Pantheon was criticized by open source developers for hosting the websites of organizations that have been designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center for their anti-LGBT stances[11][12] and their "ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists".[13][11] Koenig confirmed in a statement that Pantheon would continue to host the organizations' websites.[11]

In an October 2023 open letter, Koenig said, "we are marking new boundaries with a Prohibited Customers policy. We are setting standards that will, for instance, help us avoid taking on Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate groups as customers."[14]

Features

Pantheon is a combination of web development tools in the cloud and web hosting and management services. It is based in the cloud, and is free until deployment.[15] Developers have a choice between Drupal and WordPress and installation of profiles like Open Atrium, or custom upstreams with user-specified configuration. Data can be imported onto Pantheon automatically from existing Drupal-based websites.[16] Its container-based architecture allows for multiple development environments of a single website.[17][18]

References

  1. ↑ "Company". pantheon.io. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160426150907/https://pantheon.io/company. Retrieved 2016-06-24. 
  2. ↑ "Contact Us". pantheon.io. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160426152908/https://pantheon.io/contact-us. Retrieved 2016-06-24. 
  3. ↑ "Company Overview of Pantheon Systems, Inc.". Bloomberg. 5 July 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=117748511. Retrieved 5 July 2016. 
  4. ↑ "Pantheon Goes Global with Full Access WebOps". Yahoo! Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pantheon-goes-global-full-access-130000482.html. Retrieved 24 July 2019. 
  5. ↑ Josh Koenig (23 Jan 2018). "Pantheon Moves to Google Cloud Platform". https://pantheon.io/blog/pantheon-moves-google-cloud-platform. Retrieved 3 Aug 2018. 
  6. ↑ "Pantheon: Evolving operations for mission critical websites". https://cloud.google.com/customers/pantheon/. Retrieved 3 Aug 2018. 
  7. ↑ "Pantheon nabs $5M from Foundry, others for smarter Drupal site development". VentureBeat. 26 June 2012. https://venturebeat.com/2012/06/26/pantheon-funding/. Retrieved 2013-08-24. 
  8. ↑ "Pantheon Raises $21.5 Million to Expand its Website Platform for Drupal and WordPress Professionals" (Press release). BusinessWire. 15 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-11-19. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  9. ↑ "Pantheon Announces $40 Million in Growth Funding to Bring WebOps To Every Digital Marketing Team". Global News Wire (Press release). 5 March 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "Serverless CMS WebOps Platform Pantheon". mg21.com. 2021-07-14. https://www.mg21.com/pantheon.html. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Belanger, Ashley (2023-04-27). "WebOps platform Pantheon defends hosting "hate groups" as developers quit" (in en-us). https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/webops-platform-pantheon-defends-hosting-hate-groups-as-developers-quit/. 
  12. ↑ "Alliance Defending Freedom" (in en). https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/alliance-defending-freedom. 
  13. ↑ "Federation for American Immigration Reform" (in en). https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform. 
  14. ↑ Koenig, Josh (October 9, 2023). "Open Letter on Elevating Our Standards". https://pantheon.io/blog/open-letter-elevating-our-standards. 
  15. ↑ "Pantheon Drupal Hosting Plans | Drupal ASU". Drupal.asu.edu. https://drupal.asu.edu/pantheon/pricing. Retrieved 2013-08-24. 
  16. ↑ "Pantheon Brings Drupal to the Cloud on Rackspace – ReadWrite". Readwrite.com. 30 September 2011. http://readwrite.com/2011/09/30/pantheon-brings-drupal-to-the#awesm=~odW3Bzv0p5sOFg. Retrieved 2013-08-24. 
  17. ↑ "Pantheon Forks the Data Center". HostReview.com. 2013-07-11. http://www.hostreview.com/news/130711-pantheon-forks-the-data-center. Retrieved 2013-08-24. 
  18. ↑ "IST Pantheon Drupal Cloud Service | UC Berkeley Content Management". Content.berkeley.edu. 2013-02-01. https://content.berkeley.edu/hosting/drupal/pantheon. Retrieved 2013-08-24. 

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