Netlify

Netlify is a San Francisco-based cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach. It popularized Git-based deployment workflows paired with static-site generation and serverless functions, and helped drive adoption of the Jamstack architecture across the web development industry. The company is venture-backed, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins, and serves millions of developers and thousands of enterprises.

Notable people

Former people

Laurie Voss
Employee · Until 2023
Now at Arize AI
Shawn Wang (swyx)
Developer experience · Former
Now at Cognition · Latent Space · AI Engineer

Tools

Netlify MCP Servergithub.com
Lets agents create, deploy, and manage Netlify sites, environment variables, forms, and access controls over MCP.
68 GitHub starsfreeOriginal source
Netlifynetlify.com
Hosting for web projects, with CI/CD pipelines, serverless functions, and deployment to edge locations.
freemiumOriginal source