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middleware, and Paul Phillips in 2011. It provides an

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platform for building reactive applications for the

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, consisting of the Play Framework,

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build tool. Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform. Lightbend is one of the main contributors of

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/ref> In February 2016, the company was renamed from Typesafe to Lightbend and adopted a new logo.

Leadership

The company's CEO is Jonas Bonér.

Investors

Lightbend initially raised $3 million for Series A funding from Greylock Partners. Lightbend then raised another $14 million for Series B from

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, Greylock Partners, Juniper Networks and Francois Stieger. Intel Capital is leading a new $20 million Series C round of funding along with new investor

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and current backers Bain Capital Ventures, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, and

. This brings funding to date to $42 million.

Products

Lightbend leads the following

or source-available software projects: * Scala programming language *

event-driven middleware * Play Framework web framework *Lagom reactive microservices framework *Slick database query and access library for Scala *

build tool Lightbend also offers Lightbend Subscription, which offers 24/7 developer support and a commercial product Lightbend Production Suite. Lightbend Production Suite includes service orchestration, Lightbend Monitoring, application resilience, and enhanced availability.

Conferences

Lightbend hosts an annual conference called Scala Days which brings together developers from around the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala.

Educational Resources

Lightbend offers an educational platform called Lightbend Academy, which includes online courses for subscription customers.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.lightbend.com/ Software companies of the United States Companies established in 2011 Middleware