USA – StackBlitz, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that is building a collaborative web development platform in the browser, raised $7.9M in seed funding.
The round was led by Greylock Partners with support from Google Ventures, Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub Co-Founder), Jay Srinivasan and Pratyus Patnaik (Appurify & atSpoke Co-Founders), and other leaders across the developer space. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and to build its collaborative web development environments and launch a new suite of developer experiences over the coming quarters, and expand its business reach. Led by By Eric Simons, CEO, and Albert Pai, CTO, StackBlitz provides a development environment to enable seamless code collaboration without ever having to set up a local environment. Last May at Google I/O, the team launched the beta of this new experience powered by key technology called WebContainers. These environments boot instantly inside a browser tab, are shareable via URL, and provide a step function increase in security posture thanks to browser sandboxing. Since then, the team has worked with the largest open source projects (such as Vite, Remix, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Next) and companies to expand StackBlitz’s capabilities.Developers from over 2,000 companies – including many global tech leaders like Google, Airbnb, Uber, Meta, Shopify, Stripe, Apple, and Cloudflare – use it to accelerate their web development.The company has also partnered with Google, Mozilla, Fastly, Shopify, Amazon, Intel, Arm and others to bring WebContainers to all devices, platforms, languages and runtimes.06/04/2022
