Lightbend, formerly known as Typesafe, is a company founded by

Martin Odersky Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He designe ...

, the creator of the

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, Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka

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, and Paul Phillips in 2011. It provides an open-source platform for building

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applications for the

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, consisting of the

Play Framework Play Framework is an open-source software, open-source web application framework which follows the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern (computer science), architectural pattern. It is written in Scala (programming language), Sc ...

, Akka middleware and Scala programming language, with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Slick database library for Scala and the

sbt sbt is an open-source build tool for Scala (programming language), Scala and Java (programming language), Java projects, similar to Apache Software Foundation, Apache's Apache Maven, Maven and Gradle. Its main features are: *Native support fo ...

build tool. Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform. Lightbend is one of the main contributors of Reactive Streams.Reactive Streams Releases First Stable Version for JVM
/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

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. Lightbend then raised another $14 million for Series B from

Shasta Ventures Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm located in Silicon Valley that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups. It is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Funds Shasta's second fund of US$250 milli ...

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and Francois Stieger. Intel Capital is leading a new $20 million Series C round of funding along with new investor Blue Cloud Ventures and current backers

Bain Capital Ventures Bain Capital Ventures LLC is the venture capital division within Bain Capital, which has approximately $160 billion of assets under management worldwide. The firm's early-stage investments have included Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Fl ...

, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, and

. This brings funding to date to $42 million.

Products

Lightbend leads the following open-source or

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software projects: *

* Akka event-driven middleware *

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