martin odersky jonas bon r paul phillips 1 headquarters san francisco california services distribution and support on the lightbend reactive platform website www.lightbend.com lightbend formerly typesafe is a company founded by martin odersky the creator of the scala programming language jonas bon r the creator of the akka middleware and paul phillips in 2011 . it provides an open source platform for building reactive applications for the jvm consisting of the play framework akka middleware and scala programming language with additional supporting products and development tools such as the scala ide for eclipse 2 the slick database query and access library for scala and the sbt build tool . lightbend also provides training consulting and commercial support on the platform . lightbend is one of the main contributors of reactive streams . 3 4 5 in february 2016 the company was renamed from typesafe to lightbend and adopted a new logo . contents 1 leadership 2 investors 3 products 4 conferences 5 references 6 external links leadership edit the company s ceo is mark brewer and the cto is jonas bon r viktor klang serves as the chief architect and derek henninger as its vice president of engineering . 6 investors edit lightbend initially raised 3 million for series a funding from greylock partners . 7 lightbend then raised another 14 million for series b from shasta ventures greylock partners juniper networks and francois stieger . 8 intel capital is leading a new 20 million series c round of funding along with new investor blue cloud ventures and current backers bain capital ventures polytech ecosystem ventures and shasta ventures . this brings funding to date to 42 million . 9 products edit lightbend leads the following open source software projects scala programming language akka event driven middleware play framework spray framework restful framework for scala slick database query and access library for scala 10 11 sbt build tool scala ide for eclipse 12 typesafe activator & typesafe console 13 lagom reactive microservices framework 14 conferences edit lightbend hosts an annual conference called scala days 15 which brings together developers from around the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with scala . references edit paul phillips executive profile & biography businessweek . retrieved january 1 2016 . darrow barb 2011 . scala sets sights on top tier status among the java faithful . gigaom.com . retrieved september 13 2013 . reactive streams releases first stable version for jvm a journey into reactive streams reactive streams 1.0.0 interview company leadership . typesafe.com . 2014 . retrieved january 24 2014 . matz cade 2011 . scala daddy wraps his java baby in red hat ness . theregister.co.uk . retrieved september 13 2013 . rao leena 2012 . typesafe raises 14m from shasta greylock and juniper to commercialize scala . techcrunch.com . retrieved september 13 2013 . intel invests in lightbend and its scala language . fortune . 2016 05 26 . retrieved 2016 05 26 . darrow barb 2012 . typesafe announces scala language integrated connection kit . drdobbs.com . retrieved january 24 2014 . darrow barb 2013 . slick functional relational mapping for scala . typesafe.com . retrieved january 24 2014 . darrow barb 2011 . scala ide for eclipse . scala ide.org . retrieved january 24 2014 . darrow barb 2013 . typesafe activator . typesafe.com . retrieved january 24 2014 . lightbend lagom . retrieved june 4 2016 . scala days 2013 . scaladays.org . 2013 . retrieved september 13 2013 . 1 external links edit official website spray rest http for your akka scala actors . spray.io . retrieved 2016 07 06 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lightbend inc. & oldid 728665017 categories computer companies of the united statescompanies established in 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 6 july 2016 at 20 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view