Render's $20 Million Series A

Render, a cloud platform company, announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Addition, with participation from General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund, bringing its total funding to $27 million. This funding will facilitate Render's expansion and enhancement of its platform, enabling developers to avoid complex, costly, and time-consuming tasks associated with lower-level platforms like AWS. Render aims to simplify cloud infrastructure by offering features such as free instance types for web services and PostgreSQL databases, managed data stores like Redis, more hosting regions, a public API, S3-compatible object storage, and built-in DDoS protection, making its platform more accessible and efficient for developers. Since its launch in 2019, Render has grown to serve tens of thousands of developers and handles 4 billion requests monthly, with many customers migrating from providers like Heroku and AWS. The company's mission is to empower customers to focus on innovation by handling infrastructure challenges, and it plans to triple its team size to continue developing its cloud offerings.