Deno Raises $21M To Launch A Fully Managed Runtime Service
06/21/22, 4:00 PM
Money raised
$21 million
Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, today announced that it closed a $21 million Series A round led by Sequoia that brings its total raised to $26 million. According to CEO Ryan Dahl, the new cash will be put toward building out Deno’s commercial offering, Deno Deploy, while growing marketing operationd and exploring new lines of business.
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Deno the company contributes to Deno the open source project, which already has tens of thousands of weekly active users on GitHub. The company currently has 17 employees, and plans to hire 10 more by next year. Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly based on the Rust programming language and the V8 JavaScript engine initially developed for Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers. Deno is also a member of an initiative between Node.js and Cloudflare to allow the transfer of apps between Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js without the need for a rewrite, a feat that’s presently beyond reach.“There’s a huge amount of economic pressure to improve the infrastructure around the web — whether that’s browsers themselves or the servers that host websites or the databases,” Dahl said.