Vercel Inc. | |
Former Name: | ZEIT (2015–2020) |
Type: | Private |
Area Served: | Worldwide |
Hq Location City: | San Francisco, California |
Hq Location Country: | U.S. |
Key People: | Guillermo Rauch (CEO) |
Vercel Inc., formerly ZEIT, is an American cloud platform as a service company. The company maintains the Next.js web development framework.
Vercel's architecture is built around composable architecture, and deployments are handled through Git repositories, the Vercel CLI, or the Vercel REST API. Vercel is a member of the MACH Alliance.
Vercel was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 as ZEIT. Rauch had previously created the realtime event-driven communication library Socket.IO. ZEIT was rebranded to Vercel in April 2020, although retained the company's triangular logo.
In June 2021, Vercel raised $102 million in a Series C funding round. As of May 2024, the company is valued at $3.25 billion.
On December 9, 2021, Vercel acquired Turborepo.
On October 25, 2022, Vercel acquired Splitbee.
Deployments through Vercel are handled through Git repositories, with support for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories. Deployments are automatically given a subdomain under the vercel.app
domain, although Vercel offers support for custom domains for deployments.
Vercel's infrastructure uses Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare.
Vercel's clientele includes Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Nike, Ticketmaster, Carhartt, IBM, and McDonald's.