Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
Chief Operating Officer, Vercel
“I think 2026 is the year of the agent. People sort of declared 2025 that, and I'm not seeing a ton of agents in production.” Hear the conversation
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How to build faster with AI in 2026About Vercel
Vercel is a San Francisco cloud platform company that lets developers build, deploy and run websites, web applications and AI agents. It created and maintains the open-source Next.js framework and also offers the AI SDK and the v0 app builder. Guillermo Rauch founded it in 2015 as ZEIT, and it took the Vercel name in 2020. In September 2025 it raised a US$300 million Series F at a US$9.3 billion valuation.
- Sector
- Cloud/AI application platform
- Business model
- B2B SaaS (cloud/developer platform)
- Founded
- 2015
- Founders
- Guillermo Rauch
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
- Offices
- San Francisco, New York, London, Berlin, Austin
- Latest round
- US$300M Series F, co-led by Accel and GIC, US$9.3B valuation (Sep 2025)
Sources: vercel.com, en.wikipedia.org, vercel.com
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- Founded by Guillermo Rauch (originally as Zeit)en.wikipedia.org
- Rebranded from Zeit to Vercelen.wikipedia.org
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Moments from other conversations on the network where Vercel comes up.
“Yeah, yeah, I noticed that to me, like I'm using Vercel initially, I have to set a monthly bill and then Yeah. Mr. Usage and Pay More.”
“I interviewed the COO of Vercel to speak about Vercel and talking about just. Even the titles of engineers are changing, like the go to market engineer and things like that.”
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Learn how to use AI at its exponential with Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering · 38:59“we started partnering with 4 major financial firms for distribution. And we were one of 40 to be backed by Vercel through their Global AI Accelerator program in July this year.”
“before the advent of Vercel or other tools like that that had made deployments and CI easier and Segment.io for analytics and Amplitude. These tools made things more accessible so more companies could exist and thrive.”
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