Vercel
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About
Vercel is a cloud platform for frontend developers, originally founded in 2015 as ZEIT by Guillermo Rauch, Tony Kovanen, and Naoyuki Kanezawa 1. The company rebranded to Vercel in April 2020 alongside its Series A announcement 2. Vercel is the creator and maintainer of Next.js, the most widely used React framework, which has over 1 million monthly active developers 3. The company provides a frontend cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications 4. Vercel is headquartered in San Francisco, CA 1.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| April 2020 | Series A | $21M | Accel | CRV; angel investors Jordan Walke (React creator) and Nat Friedman (GitHub CEO) 2 |
| December 2020 | Series B | $40M | GV | Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital, Geodesic Capital, Accel, CRV 5 |
| June 2021 | Series C | $102M | Bedrock Capital | Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, GV, 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV Capital, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global 6 7 |
| November 2021 | Series D | $150M | GGV Capital | Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, GV, 8VC, Flex Capital, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, Tiger Global 8 |
| May 2024 | Series E | $250M | Accel | CRV, GV, Notable Capital, Bedrock, Geodesic Capital, Tiger Global, 8VC, SV Angel 3 9 |
| September 2025 | Series F | $300M | Accel, GIC | BlackRock, StepStone, Khosla Ventures, Schroders, Adams Street Partners, General Catalyst; existing: GV, Notable Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global 4 10 |
Total raised: $863M. Valuation at Series F: $9.3 billion 4. An approximately $300M secondary tender offer for employees, former employees, and early investors also closed alongside the Series F 4.
What Investors Say
Dan Levine, Partner at Accel, described Vercel as “like AWS for the front end” and noted: “The Vercel team understood this nearly a decade ago, and is ahead of the curve on AI’s role in the future of the web as well. Their vision is the reason why we first partnered with Vercel in the earliest days” 2 3.
Salesforce Ventures stated: “When we first invested in Vercel’s Series C in 2021, we saw a bold vision: simplify, accelerate, and unify how software is built” and added: “While Vercel is the leading framework and infrastructure provider for front-end developers today, we are most excited about Guillermo’s vision for being the leading agentic infrastructure” 4.
What Founders Say
Guillermo Rauch stated at the Series F announcement: “The web is undergoing a massive evolution. We’re moving from the world of pixels to the world of tokens” 4.
Rauch also said: “Our bet on open source has become a powerful flywheel, and we’re excited to continue democratizing agents and making them accessible to everyone” 10.
At the Series E, Rauch stated: “Vercel’s Frontend Cloud has been adopted by a growing number of enterprises globally to build more performant personalized web experiences” 9.
Sources
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Vercel company overview, various sources including LinkedIn and company website, accessed March 2026. https://vercel.com/about↩↩
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MarketScreener, “Next.js creator, Vercel, Raises $21 Million with Series A Funding Led by Accel,” April 2020, accessed March 2026. https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Next-js-creator-Vercel-Raises-21-Million-with-Series-A-Funding-Led-by-Accel-to-Transform-Frontend–30450076/↩↩↩
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Crunchbase News, “Vercel’s Valuation Jumps To $3.25B After $250M Series E,” May 2024, accessed March 2026. https://news.crunchbase.com/cloud/vercels-cloud-web-applications-funding-valuation-accel/↩↩↩
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Vercel Blog, “Towards the AI Cloud: Our Series F,” September 2025, accessed March 2026. https://vercel.com/blog/series-f↩↩↩↩↩↩
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Vercel Blog, “Series B: $40M to Build the Next Web,” December 2020, accessed March 2026. https://vercel.com/blog/series-b-40m-to-build-the-next-web↩
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TechCrunch, “Vercel raises $102M Series C for its Next.js-based front-end development platform,” June 2021, accessed March 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/23/vercel-raises-102m-series-c-for-its-next-js-based-front-end-development-platform/↩
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BusinessWire, “Vercel Announces $102M in Series C Funding,” June 2021, accessed March 2026. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210623005228/en/Vercel-Announces-%24102M-in-Series-C-Funding-to-Scale-Team-Globally-and-Accelerate-Innovation-and-Adoption-of-Leading-Frontend-Development-Platform↩
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Vercel Blog, “Vercel Series D Funding and Valuation,” November 2021, accessed March 2026. https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-funding-series-d-and-valuation↩
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BusinessWire, “Vercel Raises $250M to Accelerate AI and Security Innovation,” May 2024, accessed March 2026. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240516704768/en/Vercel-Raises-$250M-to-Accelerate-AI-and-Security-Innovation-and-Deliver-Next-Generation-Web-Experiences-and-Applications↩↩
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SiliconANGLE, “Vercel grabs $300M in late-stage funding to fuel its AI pivot,” September 2025, accessed March 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/30/vercel-grabs-300m-late-stage-funding-fuel-ai-pivot/↩↩