Vercel Inc., formerly ZEIT,[1] is an American cloud
platform as a service company. The company maintains the
Next.js web development framework.[2]
Vercel's architecture is built around
composable architecture, and deployments are handled through
Git repositories. Vercel is a member of the
MACH Alliance.
History
Vercel was founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 as ZEIT.[1][3] Rauch had previously created the realtime
event-driven communication library
Socket.IO.[4] ZEIT was rebranded to Vercel in April 2020, although retained the company's triangular logo.[1][5]
In June 2021, Vercel raised $102 million in a Series C funding round.[6] As of November 2021, the company is valued at $2.5 billion.[7]
Acquisitions
On December 9, 2021, Vercel acquired Turborepo.[8]
Deployments through Vercel are handled through
Git repositories, with support for
GitHub,
GitLab, and
Bitbucket repositories.[b 1] Deployments are automatically given a subdomain under the vercel.app domain,[10] although Vercel offers support for custom domains for deployments.[b 1]