Berkeley, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Gatsby is announcing a $28 million Series B round of funding led by Index Ventures with repeat investments from CRV and Trinity Ventures. Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, who has led investments in popular cloud infrastructure and enterprise startups like DataDog (Nasdaq: DDOG), Nginx (acquired by F5) and Duo Security (acquired by Cisco), joins Gatsby’s board of directors.
Gatsby is an open source web development framework granting an endlessly customizable and extensible way to build websites and web apps — with built-in optimizations that simply guarantee today’s modern website table stakes of performance, security, and scalability. Gatsby’s modular architecture, based on popular open source technologies Javascript, React, and GraphQL, means users can stitch together best-fit tools and services to create a powerful site serving nearly any use case.
The framework offers over 2,000 plugins, many contributed by Gatsby’s passionate open source community of over 3,300 contributors, for getting sites up and running quickly and easily with the latest web technologies.
Businesses using Gatsby see increased conversion rates, because Gatsby-built sites are search engine optimized and load up to 10x faster than traditional database-backed sites. Because Gatsby sites are pre-rendered and deployed as static pages to a global CDN (content delivery network), they’re inherently scalable whenever traffic spikes. They also cost far less — often thousands of dollars less — than a high traffic website running on traditional database-backed technologies.
Gatsby’s open source platform integrates with WordPress, Drupal, and hundreds of additional CMSs, making it easy to integrate and leverage the tools frontend developers prefer while making sure creators and editors get to use their own preferred content solutions.
The fastest growing developer platform for building websites, Gatsby is becoming the gold standard for website development with adoption among Fortune 500 companies and businesses of all sizes. Supported by a developer community that’s growing over 10 percent month-over-month, with over 200,000 sites on GitHub using the framework, Gatsby is the most popular emerging tech skill professionals are interested in learning.
Launched in 2019, Gatsby’s commercial product Gatsby Cloud provides a suite of tools for building and maintaining websites and web apps built with Gatsby. The purpose-built product adds simple collaboration features for developers and content creators to work in harmony while delivering the fastest possible Gatsby builds and deploys for the most demanding use cases.
In the past month Gatsby Cloud has doubled its customer base, in part due to strong demand for Incremental Builds, which was released at the end of April. This new technology, available in Gatsby Cloud, allows developers to deploy websites in less than ten seconds when data changes occur.
On June 2 and 3, Gatsby will host its first Virtual Gatsby Days, an online conference that provides unique opportunities for the Gatsby community to interact with each other and develop their skills. The company also plans to make several product announcements and share progress on what’s coming next.
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