Cloud development software firm Typesafe raises $14M

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Typesafe, a maker of application development software and services with offices in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, said Wednesday it’s raised $14 million in a Series B venture capital round.

The company’s platform combines the Akka middleware framework and the Play web framework with Scala, an open-source programming language developed with cloud computing in mind. The stack “can scale to the largest workloads in cloud computing and virtualized enterprise data center environments,” while still integrating “seamlessly” with Java infrastructure, the company said.

Typesafe was founded in 2011, and in May of that year raised a $3 million round. Company co-founder Martin Odersky, who serves as the company’s chairman and chief architect, is the creator of Scala…

In a statement announcing the new funding, Typesafe CEO Mark Brewer said the money will allow the company to “accelerate the delivery of next-generation developer technologies for the enterprise, continue to rapidly grow the company, and expand our partner ecosystem.”

The round was led by Shasta Ventures, and included Juniper Networks, Greylock Partners and François Stieger, a former executive at Verisign, Broadvision and Oracle.