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The company's CEO is Tyler Jewell and its CTO is Jonas Bonér. ==Investors==

Lightbend initially raised $3 million for Series A funding from Greylock Partners. Lightbend then raised another $14 million for Series B from Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Juniper Networks and Francois Stieger. Intel Capital is leading a new $20 million Series C round of funding along with new investor Blue Cloud Ventures and current backers Bain Capital Ventures, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, and Shasta Ventures. This brings funding to date to $42 million. ==Products==

Lightbend leads the following open-source or source-available software projects: • Akka event-driven middleware It is also a core participant in the development of: • Scala programming language Lightbend also offers Lightbend Subscription, which offers 24/7 developer support and a commercial product Lightbend Production Suite. Lightbend Production Suite includes service orchestration, Lightbend Monitoring, application resilience, and enhanced availability. ==Conferences==

Lightbend initiated the Scala Days conference which brings together developers from around the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala. Since its inception, the Scala Center has taken over the responsibility for organizing Scala Days. Lightbend even initiated Reactive Summit as a conference around the principles for asynchronous stream processing with Reactive Streams which was later donated to the Linux Foundation. ==Educational Resources==

Lightbend offers an educational platform called Lightbend Academy, which includes online courses for subscription customers. ==References==