Inngest, an open-source startup that helps developers build and manage serverless queues, background jobs and workflows, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV.
Co-founded in 2021 by former Buffer CTO Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown, a former Docker engineer and the former head of engineering at healthcare company Uniform Teeth, Inngest sits on top of the company’s innovation in the queuing space.
“Realistically, there’s been almost no innovation in the queueing space,” Inngest CEO Holdstock-Brown said. “Yet queues and events are foundationally very similar: you want to send a message and run something in the future. So for some reason, there’s been a lack of innovation around the queueing space.” Yet, he noted, there has been a lot of work around events and event-driven architecture in recent years, especially around NATS, Kafka and real-time...
