Zephyr Cloud’s platform for micro frontend deployment, observability, and orchestration announced it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding round led by True Ventures’ Puneet Agarwal, with additional investment from Step Function, Ninja Capital, and Night Capital. The funding will accelerate Zephyr Cloud’s ability to simplify the complex world of frontend architecture for organizations looking to modernize and scale their web and mobile frontend infrastructures.
Following years of consulting on modernizing frontends through the use of Module Federation (MF) and Micro Frontends (MFE) for some of the world’s largest organizations, Zephyr Cloud CEO Zack Chapple and CTO Dmitriy (Dima) Shekhovtsov co-founded the company in August 2023.
Zephyr Cloud’s cloud-agnostic and framework-agnostic platform provides npm packages for Rspack/webpack and Vite/Rollup that can be used with as little as a single line of code added to your bundler config. And this simple change allows for the fastest deployments of frontends, taking developers from code to deployment in 400ms on average. Developers and enterprise organizations can also bring their own cloud (BYOC). Zephyr Cloud already integrates effortlessly with Cloudflare and Netlify. Support for Akamai, AWS, Azure, GCP and other cloud providers are already in progress. Plus, Zephyr Cloud makes it easy to get up and running, providing a seamless experience.
This platform addresses critical pain points in the micro frontend community, including faster development cycles, reduced deployment friction, and easier integrations with modern infrastructure. And Zephyr Cloud is not just about technology and it is about empowering teams to work more efficiently. By bridging the gap between development speed and deployment efficiency, Zephyr Cloud enables companies to adopt MFE architectures that drive innovation and business agility.
KEY QUOTES:
“Almost two years ago, Zack Jackson, Dima and I bootstrapped and built the first iteration of our platform. It was an observability platform that provided instant version switching and visualizations of MFE connections. Yet as enterprises and communities adopted it, feedback made it clear they needed more from the product. People wanted faster development cycles and more streamlined deployments. That’s how Zephyr Cloud was born.”
“Micro frontends are more than just a technical choice—they are a strategic business decision. Adopting MFE impacts everything from team structure and development velocity to deployment efficiency and business agility. Zephyr Cloud was built to simplify these complexities.”
-Zephyr Cloud CEO Zack Chapple
“Zephyr Cloud takes our already easy to use developer experience and adapts it beautifully to better support complex environments with micro frontends.”
-Netlify CEO Mathias Biilmann
“The Zephyr Cloud team has built a powerful and ubiquitous open-source community, Module Federation, and is now continuing to advance micro frontend deployment to a new level of efficiency. The results in reducing deployment time and scaling frontend infrastructures are remarkable. They are true problem solvers, and we love that.”
-Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures
“I’m thrilled to be supporting Zack and the Zephyr Cloud team in this round. Zack’s tenacity is off-the-charts, and I’m excited about a world where the best frontend and mobile teams use micro frontends to provide better experiences for developers and users alike. Zephyr Cloud is positioned to be the enterprise-scale platform of choice.”
-Will Lehmann, founder and general partner of Step Function
