Vercel

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Vercel Inc.
FormerlyZEIT (2015–2020)
Company type Private
Industry
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
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]

Contents

Vercel's architecture is built around composable architecture, and deployments are handled through Git repositories, the Vercel CLI, or the Vercel REST API. 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] 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 May 2024, the company is valued at $3.25 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]

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Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
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  3. ↑ Carey, Scott (February 21, 2022). "Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  4. ↑ Krill, Paul (June 2, 2014). "Socket.IO JavaScript framework ready for real-time apps". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  5. ↑ Anderson, Tim (April 22, 2020). "News sure to ex-Zeit: Next.js company reborn as Vercel". The Register. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  6. 1 2 Lardinois, Frederic (June 23, 2021). "Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  7. ↑ Tong, Anna. "Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation". Reuters. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
  8. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (December 9, 2021). "Vercel acquires Turborepo". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  9. ↑ Dee, Katie (October 25, 2022). "Vercel announces Next.js 13 along with the acquisition of Splitbee". SD Times. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
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