Val Town
Val Town is a Serverless & Edge Runtime company founded in 2022 and based in Brooklyn, United States. It has raised $7M in total funding, most recently a Seed in 2024.
Val Town is a cloud scripting platform that lets developers write, run, and deploy serverless TypeScript and JavaScript functions ("vals") directly from the browser, with no local setup. Founded in 2022 by Steve Krouse (CEO) and Tom MacWright (CTO) and based in Brooklyn, it positions itself as "if GitHub Gists could run and AWS Lambda were fun," letting users build HTTP APIs, schedule cron jobs, send emails, and persist data from shareable, versioned snippets. The platform runs user code on managed Deno and raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Accel in April 2024, following a $1.5 million pre-seed. The company runs with a deliberately tiny team of three people, ships Townie v5, its Claude-powered AI assistant that builds and edits vals on pay-per-use credits, and is targeting break-even in 2026.
Val Town collapses the gap between writing a snippet and shipping a serverless endpoint, making the edge-function workflow as immediate as editing a gist.
val.town ↗·Serverless & Edge Runtime·
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