Company:Vercel
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| Formerly | ZEIT (2015–2020) |
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| Type | Private |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Guillermo Rauch (CEO) |
| Website | vercel.com |
Vercel Inc., formerly ZEIT,[1] is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework.[2]
Vercel's architecture is built around composable architecture, and deployments are handled through Git repositories. Vercel is a member of the MACH Alliance.
History
Vercel was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 as ZEIT.[1][3] Rauch had previously created the realtime event-driven communication library Socket.IO.[4] In 2016, Nicolás Garro (aka Evil Rabbit) joined ZEIT as the Founding Designer and Head of Design. ZEIT was rebranded to Vercel in April 2020, although retained the company's triangular logo.[1][5]
In June 2021, Vercel raised $102 million in a Series C funding round.[6] As of November 2021, the company is valued at $2.5 billion.[7]
Acquisitions
On December 9, 2021, Vercel acquired Turborepo.[8]
On October 25, 2022, Vercel acquired Splitbee.[9]
Architecture
Deployments through Vercel are handled through Git repositories, with support for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories.[b 1] Deployments are automatically given a subdomain under the vercel.app domain,[10] although Vercel offers support for custom domains for deployments.[b 1]
Vercel's infrastructure uses Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.[11]
Reception
Vercel's clientele includes Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Nike, Ticketmaster,[1] Carhartt, IBM, and McDonald's.[6]
References
Bibliography
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 So, Preston (September 9, 2021). Gatsby: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. p. 367. ISBN 9781492087489. https://books.google.com/books?id=pDhCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA367.
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pimentel, Benjamin (April 21, 2022). "The 29-year-old founder of Vercel used this pitch deck to raise $21 million from investors like Accel and GitHub's CEO to build faster websites". Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/vercel-zeit-pitch-deck-21-million-accel-github-ceo-2020-4.
- ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (October 26, 2021). "Vercel brings new dynamic features to its Next.js framework". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/26/vercel-brings-new-dynamic-features-to-its-next-js-framework/.
- ↑ Carey, Scott (February 21, 2022). "Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS". InfoWorld. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3650751/vercel-netlify-and-the-new-era-of-serverless-paas.html.
- ↑ Krill, Paul (June 2, 2014). "Socket.IO JavaScript framework ready for real-time apps". InfoWorld. https://www.infoworld.com/article/2607757/socket-io-javascript-framework-ready-for-real-time-apps.html.
- ↑ Anderson, Tim (April 22, 2020). "News sure to ex-Zeit: Next.js company reborn as Vercel". The Register. https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/22/nextjs_vercel_logowatch/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lardinois, Frederic (June 23, 2021). "Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/23/vercel-raises-102m-series-c-for-its-next-js-based-front-end-development-platform/.
- ↑ Yasmin, Mehnaz (November 23, 2021). "Software startup Vercel doubles valuation to $2.5 bln in latest funding round". Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/software-startup-vercel-doubles-valuation-25-bln-latest-funding-round-2021-11-23/.
- ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (December 9, 2021). "Vercel acquires Turborepo". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/09/vercel-acquires-turborepo/.
- ↑ Dee, Katie (October 25, 2022). "Vercel announces Next.js 13 along with the acquisition of Splitbee". SD Times. https://sdtimes.com/software-development/vercel-announces-next-js-13-along-with-plans-to-acquire-splitbee/.
- ↑ Tyson, Matthew (April 21, 2022). "Go serverless with Vercel, SvelteKit, and MongoDB". InfoWorld. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3655952/go-serverless-with-vercel-sveltekit-and-mongodb.html.
- ↑ Michael Kerner, Sean (June 28, 2022). "Middleware enterprise functionality comes to JavaScript, thanks to Vercel". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/middleware-enterprise-functionality-comes-to-javascript-thanks-to-vercel/.
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