Ngrok, A Service To Help Devs Deploy Sites, Services And Apps, Raises $50M

Dec 13, 2022•about 3 years ago

Amount Raised

$50 Million

San FranciscoSoftware

Investors

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Description

Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok, a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or servers, and he’ll tell you it was to solve a tough-to-grok (pun fully intended) infrastructure problem he encountered while at Twilio. As an engineer there, Shreve was developing on webhooks — automated messages sent from apps when something happens — without an appropriately-tailored development environment, which slowed the deployment process.

Company Information

Company

Ngrok

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Online in One Line ngrok is simplified, API-first ingress-as-a-service trusted by over 5M developers to get their apps online faster and keep security happy. With one line of code, developers get instant ingress to services with authentication, observability, and other critical controls. All without provisioning legacy proxies, load balancers or VPNs. ngrok’s simplicity has made it a de-facto standard tool among developers, and the world’s top brands — including GitHub, Okta, Shopify, and Twilio — recommend it throughout their documentation.

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