Pantheon is a webops platform for

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Drupal Drupal () is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwid ...

and

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websites. It is an app-specific

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provider, sold on a monthly subscription basis, with several support tiers available. Technologically, Pantheon applications run as

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instead of running on users' own servers. Pantheon's service is built on top of Google Cloud Platform. Pantheon Systems, Inc. is a privately held San Francisco-based corporation founded in 2010 by Zack Rosen, David Strauss, Josh Koenig, Matt Cheney.

Capitalisation

Founded in 2010, Pantheon Systems, Inc. raised a $1.3 million seed round to start. They subsequently raised $5 million

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financing from Foundry Group, with previous investors being

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First Round Capital First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies. Founded by Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan First Round typically provides seed-stage funding and focuses on portfolio companies ...

, Floodgate, and Founders Collective bringing the total amount to $6.3 million. In 2014, Pantheon raised $21.5 million in

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financing led by

Scale Venture Partners Scale Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that typically leads Series A or Series B rounds. Over the last 20 years, Scale has made over 380 investments in Cloud, SaaS and Infrastructure companies, with over 159 exits, inclu ...

(ScaleVP) with participation from OpenView Partners and existing investors Foundry Group and First Round Capital. As part of the funding round, Rory O'Driscoll, Partner at ScaleVP joined the board of directors. In 2016, Pantheon announced that it has raised a $29 million

Series C A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the ...

round. Investors in this round include previous investors Foundry Group, OpenView Investment Partners, and Scale Venture Partners, as well as new investor Industry Ventures, which put $8.5 million into this round. The new round follows Pantheon’s $21.5 million Series B round in 2014 and brings the company’s total funding to $57 million. In 2019, Sageview Capital led a

Series D A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among ...

funding round of $40 million, bringing total funding to over $100 million. On July 13, 2021, WebOps platform Pantheon raises $100M from

SoftBank Vision Fund The SoftBank Vision Fund is a venture capital fund founded in 2017 that is part of the SoftBank Group. With over $100 billion in capital, it is the world's largest technology-focused investment fund. In 2019, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 was founded ...

. The $100 million Series E funding is at a valuation of over $1 billion.

Features

Pantheon is a combination of web development tools in the

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and

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and management services. It is based in the cloud, and the service is free for developers. Developers have a choice between Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Drupal 9, WordPress and installation of profiles like Open Atrium. Data can be imported onto Pantheon automatically if the business has an existing Drupal-based website. Pantheon Multidev does for a company's website what software-defined data centers do for its infrastructure. Each member of a team can use all the services that power a site on demand, developing on a single platform. As a result, large websites launch faster and cost less to manage over time. Based on Pantheon's multi-tenant containerized architecture, Multidev spins up in minutes, with no need for additional infrastructure or virtual servers. Pantheon makes it easy to deploy different versions of a site on test servers and the live site, as well as backup servers.

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