Brace

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Brace is a cloud company in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2012. It has raised $27.7M across 3 rounds, most recently a $15.7M Series B in January 2021.

Employees
1–10
Founded
2012
Business Model
B2B
Website
brace.io
Total Funding
$27.7M
Last Round
$15.7M Series BJan 2021
Rounds
3

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About

Brace (brace.io) was a Y Combinator-backed developer tool, originally launched as Backlift, that let front-end developers build and host complete websites without managing back-end infrastructure. It synced site files through Dropbox, offered separate draft and production versions for iteration and collaboration, and integrated forms, data, and charts into static sites. Founded by solo founder Cole Krumbholz, Brace was acquired by Squarespace in an acqui-hire in November 2014 and the service was shut down in January 2015.

Summary

It lists 1–10 employees. It has raised $27.7M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $15.7M Series B round in Jan 2021. Investors include Point72 Ventures, Canvas Ventures and Crosslink Capital.

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Funding History

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Series BSeries BJan 2021
$15.7M

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Funding: Seed through Series B. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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