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Founded by Christian Bach and Mathias Biilmann on Jan 27, 2014, in Delaware.1
The company was founded in 2014 by Danish entrepreneur Mathias Biilmann who noticed the emergence of Git-centered workflows with modern build tools and static site generators, while running Webpop, a content management startup based in San Francisco. In 2015, Biilmann invited Christian Bach, his childhood friend who was working as an executive at a creative services agency in Denmark, to join him as co-founder in his new venture. In 2017, MakerLoop was rebranded as Netlify.
Beyond the initial focus on hosting for static websites, the company expanded to a broader offering including serverless functions and test and deployment services.
Acquisitions
On May 19, 2021, Netlify announced the acquisition of FeaturePeek, a Y Combinator and Matrix Partners backed startup that enables developer teams to preview frontend content.
On November 17, 2021, Netlify acquired Y Combinator and SignalFire-backed OneGraph to allow for the composition of apps with APIs and services using GraphQL.
On February 1, 2022, Netlify announced the acquisition of Quirrel, an open-source solution and service for managing and scheduling the execution of serverless functions and jobs.
In February 2023, Netlify announced the acquisition of Jamstack framework and platform provider Gatsby.
On June 29, 2023, Netlify announced the acquisition of Stackbit, a visual editing company.
Financing
On August 16, 2016, Netlify raised $2.1 million from the founders of GitHub, Heroku, Rackspace Cloud, Bloomberg Beta and Tank Hill.
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On August 9, 2017, the company announced that it had raised $12 million in series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz.
On October 9, 2018, the company issued a press release announcing that it had completed a series B round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Slack and Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Yelp CEO and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman, among others—securing $30 million.
On March 4, 2020, Netlify secured $53 million in a series C round led by EQT Ventures, the venture capital branch of Swedish investment company EQT, with contributions by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and newcomer Preston-Werner Ventures.
On November 17, 2021, Netlify secured $105 million in a series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $2 billion valuation, with contributions by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Mango Capital, and Menlo Ventures. This brought Netlify's total funding to $212 million.
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