Vercel

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Vercel is a privately held developer platform and cloud infrastructure company, originally ZEIT, that helps developers and teams build, preview, deploy, secure, observe, and scale web applications and AI agents. Its platform combines frontend infrastructure, global CDN/edge delivery, compute, developer workflows, and AI-native tooling.

Primary product

Vercel platform (including Next.js, v0, AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, CDN, Fluid compute, observability, security, and workflows).

Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

700–800 (public third-party estimates; exact current headcount unavailable)

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Software development / cloud infrastructure

Sub-industry

Developer platforms, frontend cloud, platform-as-a-service, AI infrastructure

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

New York City, New York, United States

London, United Kingdom

Berlin, Germany

Covina, California, United States

Business model

Freemium self-serve hosting

Usage-based infrastructure and compute

Per-user Pro subscriptions

Custom enterprise contracts and support

Open-source ecosystem monetization and enterprise upsell

Funding

Stage

Series F / late-stage private company

Total raised

$863M

Latest round

Series F · Sep 2025

Latest amount

$300M

Secondary tender offer

Sep 2025

$300M

Series F

Sep 2025 · Accel and GIC

$300M

Series E

May 2024 · Accel

$250M

Series D

Nov 2021 · GGV Capital

$150M

Series C

Jun 2021 · Bedrock Capital

$102M

Series B

Dec 2020 · GV

$40M

Series A

Apr 2020 · Accel and CRV

$21M

People & investors

Leadership

Guillermo Rauch

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser

Chief Operating Officer

Marten Abrahamsen

Chief Financial Officer

Malte Ubl

Chief Technology Officer

Keith Messick

Chief Marketing Officer

Aparna Sinha

Senior Vice President, Product

Werner Schwock

Chief Accounting Officer

Talha Tariq

Chief Technology Officer, Security

Founders

Naoyuki Kanezawa

Co-founder

Tony Kovanen

Co-founder; former CTO

Investors

Work & culture

Builder- and developer-experience-oriented culture centered on shipping quickly, open source, performance, security, and increasingly AI-native/agentic infrastructure. Roles indicate a distributed-first model with anchor days for employees within commuting distance of major offices.

Work style

Hybrid

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Job postings advertise location-adjusted compensation, equity, benefits, possible bonus/variable pay, and high technical-role base ranges. Examples include approximately $196,000–$294,000 for a San Francisco backend role and $180,000–$280,000 for a San Francisco compute role. Job applications ask whether sponsorship is required, but public evidence does not establish universal sponsorship.

Benefits

Equity

Inclusive healthcare package

Flexible time off

Home-office/work-from-home budget

Company-provided equipment

Mentorship and learning support

Conference/event attendance support

Wellness/home-office stipends (reported by career sources)

Product & market

Pricing

Hobby: free for non-commercial personal use; Pro: $20 per user per month plus usage; Enterprise: custom pricing. Additional compute, network, storage, and AI usage is metered.

Differentiators

—Deep integration with Next.js and the React ecosystem
—Global edge delivery and highly automated preview/deployment workflow
—Strong developer experience and Git-based CI/CD
—Integrated security, observability, CDN, compute, and spend controls
—AI-native products including v0, AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, and Agent
—Large open-source ecosystem and broad developer adoption
—Enterprise controls including SSO, SCIM, SLAs, WAF, and advanced support

Technology

Next.js

React

Turbopack

TypeScript

JavaScript

AI SDK

AI Gateway

Edge/CDN infrastructure

Fluid compute

Serverless functions

Docker image builds

Web Application Firewall

DDoS mitigation

SAML SSO

SCIM/Directory Sync

Customers

OpenAI

Anthropic

Stripe

PayPal

Nike

Walmart

Notion

Zapier

Mintlify

The Washington Post

DoorDash

The Weather Company

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team

Supreme

Netflix

Competitors

Netlify

Cloudflare Pages/Workers

AWS Amplify

Google Cloud

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Heroku

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Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $150M–$200M annual revenue based on third-party estimates; separate research reports more than $200M ARR in 2025. Treat as an estimate, not audited financial disclosure.

Estimated monthly visits

29.6M

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Jan 2025

Vercel acquired Tremor, according to secondary research coverage, to deepen its open-source React/data-visualization ecosystem.

Source

Acquisition

Secondary reporting describes additional acquisitions or acqui-hires including NuxtLabs, Better Auth, and Stakpak; transaction terms and dates should be treated as less certain than Vercel's financing announcements.

Source

Latest news

Vercel acquires Egyptian AI infrastructure startup Stakpak

BusinessTechAfrica · Jul 2026

Secondary reporting said Vercel acquired Stakpak for undisclosed terms and that its founding team would join Vercel; this acquisition claim is not corroborated here by a primary Vercel announcement.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

TechCrunch · Jul 2026

Rauch discussed Vercel's agentic infrastructure strategy, including Sandbox, AI Gateway, agent deployment, and reported scale of millions of daily deployments.

Vercel appoints Mitchell Hashimoto to board of directors

Business Wire · Mar 2026

Vercel announced Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp co-founder and Terraform creator, joined its board.

Towards the AI Cloud: Our Series F

Vercel Blog · Sep 2025

Guillermo Rauch described Vercel's shift toward AI Cloud infrastructure, highlighting AI SDK, v0, Vercel Agent, and support for more than 60 models.

Jobs and careers at Vercel

84 jobs at Vercel

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On-site

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