# Serverless Inc.

> Serverless Inc. is a San Francisco software company that builds the Serverless Framework, one of the most widely used open-source tools for deploying applications to AWS Lambda and other cloud functions. Founded in 2015 by Austen Collins, it turned a solo open-source project called JAWS into a de facto standard for infrastructure-as-code in the function-as-a-service era, then layered commercial products - a dashboard, observability, and a subscription license - on top for larger teams.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Austen Collins (Founder & CEO, creator of the Serverless Framework)
- **Team size:** 17 (some sources cite ~22)
- **Products:** Serverless Framework, Serverless Framework Dashboard, Serverless Framework V4, Serverless Components
- **Notable:** Created the Serverless Framework (originally JAWS), a de facto standard for FaaS deployment, 25,000+ GitHub stars on the open-source project, Adopted in production by EA Sports, Coca-Cola, Nordstrom, Expedia, and Reuters

## Products & services

- **Serverless Framework** — Open-source CLI and framework for building, deploying, and managing serverless applications across AWS Lambda and other providers using a simple serverless.yml configuration.
- **Serverless Framework Dashboard** — Commercial dashboard for monitoring, observability, CI/CD, secrets management, and team collaboration on serverless apps.
- **Serverless Framework V4** — Major release introducing a new commercial license for organizations over $2M revenue, hybrid developer mode, multi-cloud support, HashiCorp Vault integration, and built-in CI/CD.
- **Serverless Components** — Higher-level, reusable building blocks for deploying full serverless applications and infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Created the Serverless Framework (originally JAWS), a de facto standard for FaaS deployment
- 25,000+ GitHub stars on the open-source project
- Adopted in production by EA Sports, Coca-Cola, Nordstrom, Expedia, and Reuters
- Raised $13M total from Trinity Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Founder Austen Collins recognized as an AWS Serverless Hero

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Released Serverless Framework V4 with a new commercial license: free for organizations under $2M revenue, paid credit-based subscription above that threshold.
- **2024-12** — Serverless Framework V3 reached end of maintenance on December 31, 2024, pushing users toward V4.
- **2025-01** — Community forked V3 as oss-serverless with a committed five-year maintenance plan after official V3 support ended.

## Links

- Website: https://serverless.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/serverless
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/goserverless
- GitHub: https://github.com/serverless/serverless
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/serverless
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/serverless

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