Announcing The Astro Technology Company | Astro
The Astro Technology Company has formed to support the Astro open source project and build a better platform for web developers everywhere.
I am thrilled to announce the creation of The Astro Technology Company along with $7M in seed funding to help us build a better platform for web development. The round was led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Haystack, Gradient, and Uncorrelated Ventures.
With this funding, the core team has moved from Skypack (formerly Pika) and joined The Astro Technology Company to continue working on Astro, growing our open source community, and driving towards our upcoming v1.0 release.
Astro is a modern web build tool that helps you build fast websites, faster. Astro leverages a technique called partial hydration to automatically eliminate unused JavaScript from your site, often reducing your overall payload by 90% or more. This makes Astro the perfect choice for content-focused websites like ecommerce, marketing, and blogs.
Astro offers a modern, HTML-based component syntax that works across frameworks. React, Preact, Svelte, and Vue are all supported. Your existing components will continue to work in Astro. You can even mix frameworks when you need to, preventing that expensive rewrite when The Next Big Thing™️ comes along.
