Vercel is an American cloud application company that provides developer tools, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure for building and maintaining websites. Founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch as ZEIT, the company rebranded to Vercel in April 2020. Rauch, originally from Argentina, is a self-taught software engineer known for his contributions to open-source projects like Socket.IO and Next.js. Vercel is headquartered in Covina, California.
Vercel's mission is to empower developers to build exceptional web experiences with speed, efficiency, and reliability. The company is best known for creating and maintaining Next.js, a React framework. Vercel's platform supports various frontend frameworks, including React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte. Vercel also offers AI-powered tools like v0, an AI web development tool that generates web applications from natural language prompts. In May 2024, Vercel raised $250 million in a Series E funding round, valuing the company at $3.25 billion. As of February 2026, Guillermo Rauch remains the CEO. The company has approximately 772 employees. Recently, Vercel has been expanding its AI capabilities, including an AI SDK. In February 2026, Vercel CDN began supporting the stale-if-error directive with Cache-Control headers.
