# Vercel

> Vercel is the AI Cloud for frontend developers - a platform that makes deploying web applications as frictionless as a git push. Founded in 2015 as ZEIT by Guillermo Rauch, the Argentine-born dropout who also created Socket.IO and Next.js, Vercel grew from a side-project deployment tool into a $9.3 billion company powering websites for OpenAI, Walmart, Nike, and thousands of startups. Its open-source framework Next.js has logged over 500 million downloads in 12 months alone, and its AI tool v0 lets anyone turn a text prompt into a working web UI. Vercel is the company betting that the next billion developers won't write code at all.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founders:** Guillermo Rauch (Co-Founder & CEO), Naoyuki Kanezawa (Co-Founder, Infrastructure/Backend Developer), Tony Kovanen (Co-Founder (former CTO, departed 2017))
- **Team size:** ~897 employees (as of March 2026)
- **Products:** Vercel Platform, Next.js, v0, AI SDK, Vercel Agent
- **Notable:** Created Next.js, the most popular React framework with 500M+ downloads in 12 months - surpassing all downloads from 2016 to 2024 combined, AI SDK hit 3 million downloads per week, making it one of the fastest-growing open source projects, Grew from $1M ARR in 2019 to $200M ARR in 2025

## Products & services

- **Vercel Platform** — Cloud deployment and hosting platform with instant global CDN, preview deployments on every git push, serverless functions, and edge computing.
- **Next.js** — The world's most popular open-source React framework, created by Vercel. Over 500 million downloads in the last 12 months. Powers sites for OpenAI, TikTok, and Walmart.
- **v0** — AI-powered UI generation tool that turns natural language prompts into functional React/Next.js components and full web UIs. Available via web and iOS app.
- **AI SDK** — Open-source TypeScript/JavaScript toolkit for building AI-powered applications and conversational interfaces, with a unified interface across 60+ AI models. 3 million downloads per week.
- **Vercel Agent** — AI-powered code review tool in public beta that validates code and provides automated pull request analysis.
- **AI Gateway** — Routes AI model requests with observability, cost controls, and fallbacks across 60+ providers.
- **Turborepo** — High-performance build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos, acquired in December 2021.
- **Fluid Compute** — Next-generation serverless compute that dynamically scales for both lightweight APIs and compute-intensive AI workloads.
- **Web Application Firewall & BotID** — Security layer with bot management and WAF protecting applications deployed on Vercel.

## Achievements

- Created Next.js, the most popular React framework with 500M+ downloads in 12 months - surpassing all downloads from 2016 to 2024 combined
- AI SDK hit 3 million downloads per week, making it one of the fastest-growing open source projects
- Grew from $1M ARR in 2019 to $200M ARR in 2025
- Reached $9.3B valuation at Series F in September 2025 - raised $863M total
- Built v0, an AI UI generator that went from launch to widespread adoption in under two years
- Acquired Turborepo (2021), Splitbee (2022), Tremor (2025), and NuxtLabs (2025)
- Powers websites for OpenAI, Walmart, Nike, TikTok, Uber, Netflix, and thousands of startups
- Doubled its user base in the year leading up to Series F (2025)

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Security breach via compromised third-party AI tool Context.ai - Vercel responded and disclosed incident.
- **2025-09** — Closed Series F at $9.3B valuation - $300M investment co-led by Accel and GIC, plus $300M tender offer for employees and early investors.
- **2025-07** — Acquired NuxtLabs, bringing the Nuxt.js framework team in-house and expanding support for Vue.js ecosystem.
- **2025-01** — Acquired Tremor, an open-source React component library for building dashboards.
- **2024-05** — Raised $250M Series E at $3.25B valuation to accelerate AI and security innovation.
- **2023** — Launched v0, the AI tool that generates web UIs from natural language, and released AI SDK for building conversational interfaces.

## Links

- Website: https://vercel.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vercel
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vercel
- GitHub: https://github.com/vercel
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VercelHQ

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Last updated: 2026-04-20