Today, we have some very special news regarding the evolution of our company. ZEIT is now Vercel . This new identity aligns with our new focus — to provide the ultimate workflow for developing, previewing, and shipping Jamstack sites. Towards that goal, we are thrilled to also announce that we secured $21M in Series A funding . Accel and CRV are our lead investors , alongside Naval Ravikant , Nat Friedman , Jordan Walke , and others. Link to heading Our Origins In 2016, we started with a simple goal: empowering solo developers to effortlessly deploy their apps. There is an overwhelming layer of technology and terminology in web development: domain setup with DNS and SSL, networking with TCP and HTTP, caching with CDN and Edge Networks... it's a huge list. It creates much complexity. Our first product, now , focused on simplifying deployments: The original tweet announcing `now`. With a single command, we helped developers get their apps and services live, inclusive of SSL and built-in routing.…