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 is an American cloud application company. The company created and maintains the Next.js web development framework. [1]

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Vercel provides developer tools, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure to build and maintain websites. [2] It is the maker of v0 [3] and AI SDK. [4] The company maintains a free open-source library for building AI-generated products. [5]

History

Vercel was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 as ZEIT. [6] [7] Rauch had previously created the realtime event-driven communication library Socket.IO [8] and Next.js, the open source framework that Vercel optimized for their platform. [1] ZEIT was rebranded to Vercel in April 2020, although it retained the company's triangular logo. [6] [9]

In June 2021, Vercel raised $102 million in a Series C funding round. [10] In 2023, Vercel released an AI web development tool called v0 that creates web applications with natural language prompts; [3] it won a 2025 Webby Award for developer tools. [11] In 2023, Vercel released a software development kit called AI SDK [12] designed to allow developers to build conversational streaming interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. [13] In May 2024, Vercel raised $250 million in a funding round which valued the company at $3.25 billion. [3]

Acquisitions

On December 9, 2021, Vercel acquired Turborepo. [14]

On October 25, 2022, Vercel acquired Splitbee. [15]

On January 22, 2025, Vercel acquired Tremor. [16]

On July 8, 2025, Vercel acquired NuxtLabs. [17] [18]

Architecture

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.

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, [19] although Vercel offers support for custom domains for deployments. [b 1]

Vercel's infrastructure uses Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare. [20]

In 2025, Vercel introduced a web application infrastructure model called Fluid that enables an instance in a local region to handle multiple requests concurrently, similar to a traditional server, while also maintaining the elasticity of serverless systems. [21]

Reception

Vercel's clientele includes Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Nike, Ticketmaster, [6] Carhartt, IBM, and McDonald's. [10]

References

Bibliography

  1. 1 2 So, Preston (September 9, 2021). Gatsby: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. p. 367. ISBN   9781492087489.

Citations

  1. 1 2 MacManus, Richard (July 20, 2020). "How Vercel Frees Frontend Developers from Backend Burden". The New Stack. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  2. ↑ Lawson, Lorraine (February 5, 2025). "Vercel Rolls Out More Cost-Effective Infrastructure Model". The New Stack. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Tong, Anna (May 16, 2024). "Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation". Reuters. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Vercel Introduces SDK for Building AI Apps with React and Svelte". CMS Critic. June 19, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  5. ↑ MacManus, Richard (August 31, 2023). "Vercel's Next Big Thing: AI SDK and Accelerator for Devs". The New Stack. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  6. 1 2 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. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  7. ↑ Carey, Scott (February 21, 2022). "Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  8. ↑ Krill, Paul (June 2, 2014). "Socket.IO JavaScript framework ready for real-time apps". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Tim (April 22, 2020). "News sure to ex-Zeit: Next.js company reborn as Vercel". The Register. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  10. 1 2 Lardinois, Frederic (June 23, 2021). "Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Webby Winner, v0 from Vercel". WebbyAwards.com. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Vercel Introduces SDK for Building AI Apps with React and Svelte". CMS Critic. June 19, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  13. ↑ MacManus, Richard (August 31, 2023). "Vercel's Next Big Thing: AI SDK and Accelerator for Devs". The New Stack. Retrieved April 15, 2025.
  14. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (December 9, 2021). "Vercel acquires Turborepo". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  15. ↑ Dee, Katie (October 25, 2022). "Vercel announces Next.js 13 along with the acquisition of Splitbee". SD Times. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  16. ↑ Occhino, Tom (January 22, 2025). "Vercel acquires Tremor to invest in open source React components". Vercel. Archived from the original on March 19, 2025. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
  17. ↑ Chopin, Sébastien (July 8, 2025). "NuxtLabs is joining Vercel". NuxtLabs. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  18. ↑ "NuxtLabs joins Vercel". Vercel. July 8, 2025. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  19. ↑ Tyson, Matthew (April 21, 2022). "Go serverless with Vercel, SvelteKit, and MongoDB". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  20. ↑ Michael Kerner, Sean (June 28, 2022). "Middleware enterprise functionality comes to JavaScript, thanks to Vercel". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  21. ↑ Lawson, Lorraine (February 5, 2025). "Vercel Rolls Out More Cost-Effective Infrastructure Model". The New Stack. Retrieved April 14, 2025.

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