Vercel

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Vercel Inc.
FormerlyZEIT (2015–2020)
TypePrivate
Industry
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
Websitevercel.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 Jamstack, and deployments are handled through Git repositories.[b 1] 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 2] Deployments are automatically given a subdomain under the vercel.app domain,[10] although Vercel offers support for custom domains for deployments.[b 2]

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. Camden, Raymond; Rinaldi, Brian (June 21, 2022). The Jamstack Book. Manning Publications. p. 138. ISBN 9781638356936.
  2. So, Preston (September 9, 2021). Gatsby: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. p. 367. ISBN 9781492087489.

Citations
  1. 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.
  2. Lardinois, Frederic (October 26, 2021). "Vercel brings new dynamic features to its Next.js framework". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  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. Lardinois, Frederic (June 23, 2021). "Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  7. Yasmin, Mehnaz (November 23, 2021). "Software startup Vercel doubles valuation to $2.5 bln in latest funding round". Reuters. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
  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.
  10. Tyson, Matthew (April 21, 2022). "Go serverless with Vercel, SvelteKit, and MongoDB". InfoWorld. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  11. Michael Kerner, Sean (June 28, 2022). "Middleware enterprise functionality comes to JavaScript, thanks to Vercel". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
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