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, the Vercel CLI, or the Vercel RESTAPI. Vercel is a member of the MACH Alliance.
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 May 2024, the company is valued at $3.25 billion.[7]
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]