Strapi, a Paris, France-based leading open-source headless CMS, announced that it closed a $31 million in Series B funding.

The round was led by CRV, with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, BPI France, Raise Sherpas as well as new notable Angel investors: Ashley Smith (Former GitLab CMO and GitHub VP of Marketing), Nat Friedman (Former GitHub CEO), Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia Cofounder) and Matt Billmann Christensen (Netlify CEO).

This new funding allows Strapi to accelerate building a sustainable business and invest in the development of the Strapi open-source community and ecosystem. And it will enable it to deliver on its mission of empowering millions of people to share and manage any content, anywhere.

Company: Strapi SAS

Raised: $31.0M

Round: Series B

Funding Month: June 2022

Lead Investors: CRV

Additional Investors: Flex Capital, Index Ventures, BPI France, Raise Sher, Ashley, Nat Friedman, Nicolas Dessaigne, and Matt Billmann Christensen 

Company Website: https://strapi.io/

Software Category: Headless CMS Software 

About the Company: Strapi is an open-source headless CMS coded in JavaScript, fully customizable, and developer-first, gives developers the freedom to use their favorite tools and frameworks while allowing editors to easily manage their content and distribute it anywhere. Strapi is made of caring, diverse, passionate, ambitious, and all-remote team members and has more than 45K stars on GitHub, 750+ contributors, and more than 7 million downloads. Strapi is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects and the most customizable Headless CMS. Strapi vision’s is to empower both developers and content editors to quickly build apps that enable collaboration and collective intelligence over the entire content lifecycle.

Source: https://strapi.io/blog/series-b