Netlify

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Netlify, Inc.
Formerly called
 MakerLoop, Inc.[1]
Founded
Area served
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Netlify is a San Francisco–based cloud computing company that offers hosting and serverless backend services for web applications and static websites.[5]

The company provides hosting for websites whose source files are stored in the version control system Git and then generated into static web content files[b 1] served via a Content Delivery Network.[b 2][b 3] Given the limitations of the purely static model, the company later expanded services to include content management systems, and features of serverless computing[6] to handle websites with interactive features.[7]

History

A predecessor to the company was founded in 2014 when Danish entrepreneur Mathias Biilmann noticed the emergence of Git-centered workflows with modern build tools and static sites generators, a shift he described as "a massive change happening in the web development space", while running MakerLoop, a content management startup based in San Francisco. In 2015, Biilmann invited Christian Bach, his childhood friend who was working as an executive at a creative services agency in Denmark, to join him as co-founder in his new venture.[8] In 2017, MakerLoop was rebranded as Netlify.[1]

Beyond the initial focus on hosting for static websites, and attracting many developers with a free basic offer, the company expanded to a broader offering including serverless functions and test and deployment services.[7][9]

Financing

On August 16, 2016, Netlify raised $2.1 million from the founders of GitHub, Heroku, and Rackspace Cloud.[10]

On August 9, 2017, the company announced that it had raised $12 million in series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz.[11][12][13][14]

On October 9, 2018, the company issued a press release announcing that it had completed a series B round led by Kleiner Perkins—with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Slack and Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Yelp CEO and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman, among others—securing $30 million.[15][16]

On March 4, 2020, Netlify secured $53 million in a series C round led by EQT Ventures, the venture capital branch of Swedish investment company EQT, with contributions by existing investors Adreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and newcomer Preston-Werner Ventures.[17]

On November 17, 2021, Netlify secured $105 million in a series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $2 billion valuation, with contributions by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Mango Capital, and Menlo Ventures.[18]

Products

Netlify CMS

File:Netlify CMS dashboard.png
Netlify CMS dashboard

To address some of the limitations of static websites, which tend to be less sophisticated and harder to use for the website maintainer than a dynamic content publishing solution such as WordPress or Medium, Netlify develops its own open source headless content management system called Netlify CMS.[b 1][8]

Jamstack

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Main article: Jamstack

Jamstack[lower-alpha 1] is a cloud-native web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript code, reusable APIs, and markup content.[b 4] It was pioneered and created by Netlify.[19][20] In its purest form, the idea of Jamstack is that a web application is pre-built into static pages, using content and code to generate the output. In basic terms, Jamstack is a significant shift in focus from the now abstractable back end to the now-powerful front end.[21]

Reception

In March 2017, Netlify CMS was named "GitHub project of the week" by the Software Development Times.[22]

On July 10, 2018, GitHub founder and former CEO Tom Preston-Werner predicted that "within 5 years, you'll build your next large scale, fully featured web app with JAMstack and deploy on Netlify."[23]

Netlify customers include Google, Facebook, Verizon, NBC, Samsung, Nike, Cisco, Atlassian, LiveChat, TriNet, Loblaw, Wieden+Kennedy, Vue.js, Citrix, Peloton, Kubernetes, Lodash, Smashing Magazine, and Sequoia Capital.[24][8][25][26][27][28]

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