(2019-09-26) Announcing Gatsby's $15m Series A Funding Round

Announcing Gatsby’s $15M Series A Funding Round. Gatsby is a free and open-source web framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps

We believe that the basic architecture of websites is being reinvented. The dominant web architecture, the LAMP stack, was founded at the dawn of the web before paradigm-shifting technologies were invented, like virtual machines, AWS, smartphones, Git, Node/NPM, React, and Serverless—elements of modern engineering we now take for granted. With Gatsby, we’re reinventing website technology so people can create sites that are lightning fast, incredibly secure, and stable

The web is now migrating to a decoupled architecture where specialized modular services are stitched together to create websites.

Instead of a monolithic CMS powering everything, Gatsby ties together specialized services with a modern development experience and optimized website delivery.

With Gatsby, we’re striving to create a business model that will drive many millions of dollars of investment in open-source tools and enable people to build the next generation of web experiences.

We’re also investing heavily in building cloud services which complement our open source product. Modern software development work relies heavily on services from cloud vendors. Our cloud services help people quickly setup & run sites, and enable website teams, including both technical and nontechnical people, to collaborate easily together.

Gatsby raises $15 million for website and web app development tools

The capital infusion brings Gatsby’s total raised to nearly $20 million following a $3.8 million seed round in May 2018, and it comes as hundreds of brands including IBM, PayPal, Nike, Harry’s, Fabric, Braun, Ideo, Airbnb, and Impossible Foods use the startup’s eponymous framework to create web properties

We’ve spent four years building Gatsby to be the most comprehensive platform for building a modern website. What would take companies months or even years to implement with a cutting edge web stack is trivial to start with, build with, and deploy on Gatsby,”

A robust plugin engine lets developers pull in data directly from software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms, APIs, databases, file systems, and more. And helpfully, Gatsby ships with template sites preconfigured for different use cases, in addition to a curated list of community projects and learning resources like podcasts and tutorials.

Gatsby offers a cloud-hosted service — Gatsby Preview — that lets teams build web apps and websites and see changes in real time.