Lightbend provides a cloud-native application platform and frameworks that help developers build scalable, high-performance microservices and streaming data systems optimized for cloud-native infrastructure. Its core product Akka is a Reactive Architecture platform used by more than one million developers and customers including Capital One, Fortnite, LinkedIn, PayPal and Verizon. The company also maintains and contributes to open-source frameworks and projects such as Play, Lagom, Cloudflow, Cloudstate and the Scala programming language. Lightbend’s platform is designed to help applications optimize resource consumption and scale dynamically using Kubernetes, microservices and containers, and it targets deployments on platforms like Red Hat OpenShift. Led by Jonas Bonér and CEO Mark Brewer, Lightbend operates offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Quebec, Switzerland and Sweden. The company said it will use the new funds to continue expanding operations and its business reach. Lightbend provides a reactive application development platform for building distributed applications using microservices and fast data on a message-driven runtime. The platform is powered by an open source core and delivers capabilities across reactive programming, data streaming and microservices. IBM will integrate these capabilities across its cloud platform and portfolio of cloud services, including data analytics, cognitive and machine learning, and collaborative data science tools. That integration is intended to extend new capabilities to Java and Scala communities. Enterprises including Credit Karma, Hootsuite, iHeartRadio, LinkedIn, Norwegian Cruise Lines, UniCredit Group, Verizon, Walmart, Weight Watchers and William Hill have adopted the Lightbend Reactive platform to build low-latency, fast-data applications based on modern microservice architectures. The company is led by Mark Brewer, President and CEO. Lightbend offers a platform based on the Java Virtual Machine and JVM languages such as Java and Scala to build message-driven, low-latency applications for multicore and cloud architectures. Its toolset and technologies include Lagom, Play Framework, Akka, Apache Spark, Scala, and Java. The company sells the Lightbend Reactive Platform and partners with Databricks, IBM, and Mesosphere. Customers cited in the article include Walmart, Verizon, iHeartRadio, William Hill, and Samsung. Lightbend is led by CEO Mark Brewer and founder/CTO Jonas Bonér. Following the announced funding, the company plans to use the proceeds to continue to expand operations. Typesafe packages the Scala language with the Akka middleware framework and the Play web framework into the Typesafe Stack, which is compatible with Java. The stack is aimed at building large-scale, data-rich applications and scaling to cloud computing and virtualized enterprise datacenter environments. Typesafe offers a Typesafe Subscription that provides commercial support, maintenance, and operations tools alongside training and consulting services to help organizations adopt Akka, Play, and Scala. The company was founded by the creators of the Scala language and the Akka framework. Leadership emphasizes Scala’s expressiveness and suitability for distributed cloud applications and massively multicore hardware while integrating with existing Java infrastructure. Typesafe, based in Cambridge, Mass., offers a modern architecture for building scalable multicore and cloud applications centered on the Scala programming language. The company introduced the open-source Typesafe Stack, which integrates the most recent releases of Scala, Akka middleware and developer tools to simplify and accelerate Scala development. Typesafe also offers commercial support and maintenance for the stack. Scala was created by Typesafe co-founder and CEO Martin Odersky, and the company was co-founded by Jonas Bonér, creator of Akka. Java creator James Gosling and concurrency expert Doug Lea have joined Typesafe's board of advisors. As part of its launch, Typesafe raised $3M in Series A funding.

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$77M

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5

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Mar 2020