Vercel is a cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications, founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch. It develops and maintains 📝Next.js, the 📝React-based framework for server-rendered and statically generated sites, and deploys applications directly from Git repositories with serverless and edge compute, automatic TLS, a global content delivery network, and real-time analytics. Its customers range from independent developers to enterprises including Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier.
The company launched as ZEIT and renamed to Vercel in 2020, reorienting from general-purpose hosting to a frontend cloud built around the framework it authors. Stewarding Next.js while selling the platform most tightly coupled to it is both the company's core differentiation against Netlify, 📝Cloudflare Pages, and AWS Amplify, and the most common critique leveled at it. Funding has tracked adoption: a $250 million Series E in May 2024 valued the company at $3.25 billion, and a $300 million Series F in September 2025 led by Accel and GIC valued it at $9.3 billion. Annual recurring revenue passed $200 million in mid-2025, roughly doubling in fifteen months, as the company repositioned around AI-oriented workloads.
Vercel is live infrastructure for 📝MythOS, not a platform I'm evaluating — active subscription, active deploy target.