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Vercel

Vercel was founded in 2015 in San Francisco, USA by Guillermo Rauch, Naoyuki Kanezawa and Tony Kovanen. It is a Developer Tools company.

Frontend cloud platform and creator of the Next.js framework (formerly Zeit).

Private Founded 2015 San Francisco USA Developer Tools
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Vercel founders & co-founders

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Guillermo Rauch
Founder & CEO
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Naoyuki Kanezawa
Co-founder
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Tony Kovanen
Co-founder

Where its founders came from

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The companies and labs that produced Vercel’s founders.

Automattic LearnBoost Cloudup

What happened to Vercel’s founders and alumni

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People who worked at or founded Vercel and went on to start their own companies.

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Vercel Inc. 2015

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