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Pantheon Systems, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded2010; 16 years ago (2010)[1]
Founders
  • Zack Rosen
  • David Strauss
  • Josh Koenig
  • Matt Cheney
Headquarters
San Francisco, California[2]
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key peopleBill Ingram (Interim CEO)
Bill Ingram (Interim CFO)
David Strauss (CTO)
ProductsPantheon Platform
Number of employees
378+ (June 2021)
Websitepantheon.io

Pantheon Systems, Inc.[3] is a privately held San Francisco-based corporation founded in 2010.

The company's flagship service, Pantheon, is a WebOps platform[4] for websites powered by open-source Drupal and WordPress CMS, as well as NextJS and GatsbyJS Jamstack front-ends. It is an app-specific PaaS provider. Technologically, Pantheon applications run as software-as-a-service instead of running on users' own servers. Pantheon's service is built on top of Google Cloud Platform.[5][6]

History

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Founding and launch

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Pantheon Systems, Inc. was founded in 2010 in San Francisco by Zack Rosen, David Strauss, Josh Koenig and Matt Cheney, and raised a $1.3 million seed round.[7] The platform launched publicly in September 2011 as a hosting and development service for Drupal websites.[7] It subsequently raised $5 million Series A financing from Foundry Group, with previous investors being Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, Floodgate, and Founders Collective, bringing the total amount to $6.3 million.[8]

Unlike hosting providers that ran each site on a virtual machine, Pantheon built its platform on a container-based architecture, together with a custom network-backed filesystem named Valhalla, which the company said allowed it to scale capacity up and down more quickly.[9]

Expansion

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In March 2014, Pantheon extended the platform beyond Drupal to support WordPress sites. Rosen said the change took the team a little over a month to implement because most of the existing infrastructure could be reused, and that the company had moved into WordPress as the CMS gained ground with marketing departments and larger organisations.[9]

In 2014, Pantheon raised $21.5 million in Series B financing led by Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) with participation from OpenView Partners and existing investors Foundry Group and First Round Capital. As part of the funding round, Rory O'Driscoll, Partner at ScaleVP, joined the board of directors.[10]

In September 2015, the company launched Pantheon Enterprise, a tier aimed at large organisations priced at $10,000 per year. It added SAML single sign-on, a dashboard for managing multiple sites, role-based change management and a service-level agreement.[11]

In 2016, Pantheon announced that it had raised a $29 million Series C round. Investors in this round included previous investors Foundry Group, OpenView Investment Partners and Scale Venture Partners, as well as new investor Industry Ventures, which put $8.5 million into the round. The round followed Pantheon's $21.5 million Series B round in 2014 and brought the company's total funding to $57 million.[12]

In January 2018, Pantheon migrated its platform to Google Cloud Platform.[13]

In 2019, Sageview Capital led a Series D funding round of $40 million, bringing total funding to over $100 million.[14]

In July 2021, Pantheon raised $100 million in Series E funding from the SoftBank Vision Fund, at a valuation of over $1 billion.[15][better source needed]

Leadership change

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In May 2024, co-founder Zack Rosen stepped down as chief executive after more than a decade in the role, remaining involved with the company. Board director Bill Ingram was named interim CEO while a permanent successor was sought.[16]

Hosting of hate group websites

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In April 2023, Pantheon was criticized by open source developers for hosting the websites of organizations that have been designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center for their anti-LGBT stances[17][18] and their "ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists".[17][19] Koenig confirmed in a statement that Pantheon would continue to host the organizations' websites.[17]

In an October 2023 open letter, Koenig said, "we are marking new boundaries with a Prohibited Customers policy. We are setting standards that will, for instance, help us avoid taking on Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate groups as customers."[20]

Features

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Pantheon is a combination of web development tools in the cloud and web hosting and management services. It is based in the cloud, and is free until deployment.[21] Developers have a choice between Drupal and WordPress and installation of profiles like Open Atrium, or custom upstreams with user-specified configuration. Data can be imported onto Pantheon automatically from existing Drupal-based websites.[22] Its container-based architecture allows for multiple development environments of a single website.[23][24]

References

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  1. ↑ "Company". pantheon.io. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  2. ↑ "Contact Us". pantheon.io. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  3. ↑ "Company Overview of Pantheon Systems, Inc". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. 5 July 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Pantheon Goes Global with Full Access WebOps". Yahoo! Finance. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  5. ↑ Josh Koenig (23 Jan 2018). "Pantheon Moves to Google Cloud Platform". pantheon.io. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 Aug 2018.
  6. ↑ "Pantheon: Evolving operations for mission critical websites". cloud.google.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 3 Aug 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform". TechCrunch. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Pantheon nabs $5M from Foundry, others for smarter Drupal site development". VentureBeat. 26 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-09-06. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
  9. 1 2 "Website Platform Pantheon Launches WordPress Support". TechCrunch. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Pantheon Raises $21.5 Million to Expand its Website Platform for Drupal and WordPress Professionals" (Press release). BusinessWire. 15 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-11-19. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  11. ↑ "Drupal And WordPress Hosting Service Pantheon Launches New Enterprise Product". TechCrunch. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "Pantheon Raises $29M for its WordPress and Drupal Hosting and Management Platform". TechCrunch. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  13. ↑ Koenig, Josh (23 January 2018). "Pantheon Moves to Google Cloud Platform". Pantheon. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  14. ↑ "Pantheon Announces $40 Million in Growth Funding to Bring WebOps To Every Digital Marketing Team". Global News Wire (Press release). 5 March 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  15. ↑ "Serverless CMS WebOps Platform Pantheon". mg21.com. 2021-07-14. Archived from the original on 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  16. ↑ "Zack Rosen Steps Down as Pantheon CEO After Over a Decade at the Helm". The Drop Times. May 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  17. 1 2 3 Belanger, Ashley (2023-04-27). "WebOps platform Pantheon defends hosting "hate groups" as developers quit". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  18. ↑ "Alliance Defending Freedom". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  19. ↑ "Federation for American Immigration Reform". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  20. ↑ Koenig, Josh (October 9, 2023). "Open Letter on Elevating Our Standards". Pantheon. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
  21. ↑ "Pantheon Drupal Hosting Plans | Drupal ASU". Drupal.asu.edu. Retrieved 2013-08-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  22. ↑ "Pantheon Brings Drupal to the Cloud on Rackspace – ReadWrite". Readwrite.com. 30 September 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-04-04. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
  23. ↑ "Pantheon Forks the Data Center". HostReview.com. 2013-07-11. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
  24. ↑ "IST Pantheon Drupal Cloud Service | UC Berkeley Content Management". Content.berkeley.edu. 2013-02-01. Archived from the original on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
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