Vercel Funding History

Vercel provides a cloud platform for building and deploying web applications, along with developer tools including the v0 generative UI product.

Company Overview

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Vercel

  • Series C
  • UI & Design-to-Code
  • Infrastructure for AI Agents

Founded 2015 · San Francisco, US

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Vercel Funding Timeline

  1. Announced Sep 30, 2025

    Series F

    US$300 million · $9.3B valuation

    Vercel announced a separate tender offer for some early investors, employees and former employees alongside the primary round.

    Led by Accel, GIC.

    Source · vercel.com ↗
  2. Announced May 16, 2024

    Series E

    US$250 million · $3.25B valuation

    Vercel said it would invest in frontend security and tools for building AI applications.

    Led by Accel. Participation included CRV, GV, Notable Capital, Bedrock Capital, Geodesic Capital, Tiger Global, 8VC, SV Angel.

    Source · businesswire.com ↗
  3. Announced Jun 23, 2021

    Series C

    $102 million

    Vercel announced the round after weekly deployments had quadrupled and its enterprise customer base had tripled over six months.

    Led by Bedrock Capital. Participation included Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, GV, 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV Capital, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global.

    Source · techcrunch.com ↗
  4. Announced Dec 16, 2020

    Series B

    $40M

    Vercel planned to expand its team and invest in research and platform development. The announcement highlighted how teams used Next.js and Vercel to collaborate on websites.

    Led by GV. Participation included Greenoaks Capital, Bedrock Capital, Geodesic Capital, Accel, CRV.

    Source · vercel.com ↗
  5. Announced Apr 21, 2020

    Series A

    $21M

    Announced as the company rebranded from ZEIT, the funding supported continued development of Vercel’s deployment platform and the open-source Next.js framework.

    Led by Accel, CRV. Participation included Naval Ravikant, Nat Friedman, Jordan Walke.

    Source · vercel.com ↗
  6. Date under review

    Series D

    $150M

    Vercel planned to build out its frontend deployment platform and support wider adoption of Next.js.

    Led by GGV Capital. Participation included Accel, Bedrock Capital, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital, GV, 8VC, Flex Capital, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global, SV Angel.

    Source · businesswire.com ↗

Vercel Founding Team

Guillermo Rauch started Vercel as ZEIT to make application deployment easier for individual developers. The early goal was to give small teams and solo developers access to deployment tools that had largely been built inside big technology companies.

Vercel Products

  • v0

    Generate a React interface from a prompt, then edit or export the code.

  • Vercel Sandbox

    Run coding agents in isolated cloud environments with persistent storage.

Vercel Company Development

Generation Joins the Deployment Workflow

Vercel built a deployment platform for web applications and added v0 as an earlier entry point into the same workflow. A project can begin with a generated interface and then pass into the engineering work of integrating code and shipping it.

Vercel Competitive Landscape

Deployment Platform or Visual Publishing Tool

Vercel and Webflow both help teams put a site online, but their working artifacts differ. Vercel's workflow centers on application code and deployments, while Webflow puts visual editing and content management in the hands of site teams.