Wing Cloud announces $20 million in Seed funding for open-source programming language
Wing Cloud announces $20 million in Seed funding for open-source programming language
The language unifies cloud infrastructure and application code into a single programming model that works across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, serverless, and more
Wing Cloud, which develops the open-source Wing Programming Language (Winglang), came out of stealth on Tuesday with $20 million in Seed funding led by Battery Ventures, Grove Ventures, and StageOne Ventures. Other investors include: Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Operator Partners. Angel investors include: Amit Agarwal, President at Datadog; Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp; Benny Schnaider, Co-Founder of Salto; Zack Kanter, Founder of Stedi; and other industry leaders.
The $20 million in funding is the total raised by Wing since its establishment in 2022, including $5 million this past May.
Wing is headquartered in Tel Aviv and employs 16 people. The company was co-founded by CEO Elad Ben-Israel, creator of myriad open-source projects in the cloud infrastructure space such as the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), CDK for Kubernetes (CDK8s), JSII, and Projen; as well as COO Shai Ber, a former software developer at Microsoft, investor, and founder who went on to sell his company Aniways to Verizon back in 2015.
Winglang is an open source programming language designed for building distributed systems that leverage cloud infrastructure as first-class citizens. The Winglang compiler produces a ready-to-deploy package that includes both infrastructure-as-code definitions for Terraform, CloudFormation, or other cloud provisioning engines; as well as Node.js code designed to run on compute platforms such as AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, or edge platforms.
“We’re abstracting away a lot of the gritty details of building applications on top of cloud infrastructure,” said Elad Ben-Israel, CEO and Co-Founder of Wing Cloud. “The cloud has evolved into an incredibly powerful computing platform, but customers still find themselves having to deal with burdensome tasks across security, networking, deployment and operations to build and manage even the simplest systems.”
