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Today, we're proud to share that GraphCMS has recently closed a $10M Series A round led by OpenOcean to help us realize our vision of building unified Content APIs and Federating the Content Layer, and Ekaterina Almasque, General Partner at OpenOcean, will be joining our board.
Previous investors Peak and Paua Ventures also participated in this round. Mango Capital’s Robin Vasan (investor in HashiCorp, Netlify, and others), Fauna founder and CTO, Evan Weaver, and Instana (acquired by IBM) founder and CEO Mirko Novakovic also joined as strategic investors, bringing our total funding to $13.7 million.
Why Now?
With the rise of best-of-breed microservices in enterprise systems design, content is now stored in a myriad of disconnected data silos. This has resulted in overwhelming complexity when it comes to composing multiple services into an easy-to-use API for software development.
Rather than companies using resources and spending time and money in building custom middleware, we strongly believe that the solution to this dilemma is in enabling teams to “Federate the Content Layer” by integrating their APIs into a single source of truth. By serving and consuming content from a single endpoint, you can realize your goal of reducing complexity in your stack and delivering better high-performance experiences.
How it started vs. how it's going
To us, Headless CMS as a category has reached a point where the frontend-agnostic benefits are no longer enough. Rather than adding yet another service to complex stacks, we want to expand upon the possibilities of allowing content aggregation from multiple sources programmatically, essentially becoming backend agnostic as well.
We recently announced “Content Federation”, a novel meta-layer approach to seamlessly connect siloed content and integrate APIs, that allows seamless data fetching from external systems such as Salesforce, Shopify, SAP, and commercetools in a matter of minutes. Using Content Federation, developers can fetch and join content across their CMS, DAM, PIM, headless commerce platform, or any other service, issuing a single API call to aggregate content and data from multiple sources into a single API programmatically.
The topic of integrating APIs at an enterprise level has always been a challenging subject given the complexity of having several systems working together in harmony. We aim to become the meta-layer that “federates” the layers and stacks into a single endpoint as the overall API integrator. This evolution would allow development teams to accelerate their product development process by consuming and serving all their content from a single source, essentially invalidating any content siloes.
This approach leads to a massive reduction in development time and costs when integrating with multiple APIs.
It promises to be a key enabler of the online world as data continues to grow in importance and complexity, and we’re excited to share this next step of our journey with you.
To explore how GraphCMS can help break your content silos and federate your stack into a single endpoint, get in touch with our team!
To join us in realizing our vision for a unified Content Layer, we’re rapidly growing our team across several functions. If you (or a friend) are looking to share that journey with us, explore our current openings!
We have a long way to go to get where we want to be in terms of providing a universal GraphQL API that unifies the entire content layer, but we’re confident we’ll get there. We’ve loved having you with us along the way, and we’re even more excited to be sharing this next step of our journey with you all
Introducing Components!
Breeze through content creation with components! Move away from rigid content structures to start experiencing cleaner schemas, flexible content models, and intuitive content operations with reusable content templates.
How will you use Components?
Join our slack community to give our team real-time feedback as you start using Components. Tell us how you are using them, and give insights into how to make them even better. As a member of our Slack community, you will also be the first to know when new features or products drop and help us to beta test new ideas and developments.
Cheers,
The GraphCMS Marketplace is live! We have been focused on the topic of extensibility, and the GraphCMS Marketplace is a major step in our development to bring you a collection of apps, starter projects, templates and more in one easy-to-access place.
GraphCMS Marketplace
Similar in concept to UI Extensions, Integrations, and Plugins, GraphCMS's apps extend the capabilities of your GraphCMS project by bringing in functionality from tools and services you're accustomed to using within your workflows.
Available Apps
We are kicking off the GraphCMS Marketplace with our first set of official apps to build out a catalog of tools and services to help your projects grow.
- Cloudinary for Digital Asset Management,
- BigCommerce and Vue Storefront for Headless Commerce and eCommerce,
- Netifly and Vercel for Hosting and Deployment.
Apps are part of an exciting upcoming release, the GraphCMS App Framework! The App Framework opens out several extensibility use-cases within GraphCMS to allow for custom app development in the form of Apps. Over the coming weeks, we'll be releasing many more apps that are currently being tested by our users, including Bynder, DeepL, Salesforce, commercetools, and Shopify, to name a few.
Contact us to beta-test future apps →
What Else is Available
- Starter Projects: Typically come with a completed GraphCMS project (with a consumable schema), a code repository, and a frontend, to get you started with your own for projects like a simple blog, simple eCommerce shop, Developer portfolio and more.
- GraphCMS Schema Templates: Clone pre-created schemas within a GraphCMS project for you to get used to building applications with GraphCMS. They are without a frontend, so are highly unopinionated in implementation, giving you a consumable GraphQL API to use within your own application.
In the coming weeks, we will also be opening up the Framework to the community to build (and publish) your own GraphCMS apps in a scalable manner. We'd encourage you to share what apps you're using, and collaborate with us or request what apps we should work on next.
GraphCMS Announcement Emails
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