![]() Akka Akka (also known as Lightbend, formerly Typesafe) is the company that develops and maintains Akka, a distributed toolkit, alongside other technologies like Play Framework, Lagom, and the Scala programming language. | ||
Founding Date | Founding Date 2018 | Founding Date 2011 |
Type | Type Private | Type Private |
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Locations | Locations Boston, US HQ Berlin, DE | Locations San Francisco, US HQ Gatineau, CA Uppsala, SE Lausanne, CH |
Employees | Employees 502% decrease | Employees 927% increase |
Funding | ||
Latest funding round | Latest funding round $ 2.3m (about 6 years ago) | Latest funding round $ 25m (over 6 years ago) |
Total funding raised | Total funding raised $ 2.3m | Total funding raised $ 85m |

Akka (also known as Lightbend, formerly Typesafe) is the company that develops and maintains Akka, a distributed toolkit, alongside other technologies like Play Framework, Lagom, and the Scala programming language.
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