Industry Computer software Founded 2011 | Website www.lightbend.com | |
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Services Distribution and support on the Lightbend Reactive Platform Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States Founders Martin Odersky, Paul Phillips, Jonas Bonér, Mark Brewer | ||
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Lightbend, formerly known as Typesafe, is a company founded by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka middleware, and Paul Phillips in 2011. It provides an open-source platform for building Reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming language, with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Scala IDE for Eclipse, the Slick database query, and access library for Scala and the sbt build tool. Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform.
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- Lightbend lagom microservices just right by mirco dotta
- Leadership
- Investors
- Products
- Conferences
- References
Lightbend is one of the main contributors of Reactive Streams.
In February 2016, the company was renamed from Typesafe to Lightbend and adopted a new logo.
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Leadership
The company's CEO is Mark Brewer and the CTO is Jonas Bonér. Viktor Klang serves as the Chief Architect and Derek Henninger as its Vice President of Engineering.
Investors
Lightbend initially raised $3 million for Series A funding from Greylock Partners. Lightbend then raised another $14 million for Series B from Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Juniper Networks and Francois Stieger. Intel Capital is leading a new $20 million Series C round of funding along with new investor Blue Cloud Ventures and current backers Bain Capital Ventures, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, and Shasta Ventures. This brings funding to date to $42 million.
Products
Lightbend leads the following open-source software projects:
Lightbend also offers Lightbend Subscription, which offers 24/7 developer support and a commercial product Lightbend Production Suite. Lightbend Production Suite includes Service Orchestration, Lightbend Monitoring, Application Resilience, and Enhanced Availability.
Conferences
Lightbend hosts an annual conference called Scala Days which brings together developers from around the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala.