laravel raises a $57 million series a from accel

Taylor tweeted:

"I'm excited to announce that Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel."

"I believe that Laravel is the most productive way to build full-stack web applications, and Laravel Cloud will be the platform for shipping those applications that this community deserves."

Partnering with Accel has allowed Laravel to start building a world-class engineering and leadership team that has resulted in Laravel Cloud and also another product that will be announced at Laracon AU in November.

He also follows up with some important takeaways from the announcement.

First, I’m not going anywhere. I’m still leading Laravel as CEO, and I’m working closely with all of our teams to ensure we’re building the best products possible for our community.

Second, we remain committed to open source. Since partnering with Accel, we’ve hired additional engineering support dedicated to open source development. I also remain the primary curator of all features in the Laravel framework. Inertia 2.0 and our first-party VS Code extension are a direct result of our increased open source engineering capacity. Accel deeply understands open source and developer focused tooling, with previous investments in Sentry, Vercel, and Linear.