Deno
Deno Land Inc. builds the open-source Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and the commercial Deno Deploy edge platform, serving enterprise customers (Slack, Netlify, Supabase, Plaid) and a long tail of developers via self-serve and Subhosting OEM channels.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2021
- HeadquartersSan Diego, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Deno does
Deno Land Inc. is a venture-backed developer-tools company that builds and commercializes the Deno open-source JavaScript and TypeScript runtime. Founded in 2019 (corporate entity formed 2021, headquartered in San Diego), Deno's core product is an open-source runtime built on V8 and Rust that ships zero-config TypeScript, web-standard APIs (fetch, WebSocket, URLPattern, etc.), a built-in toolchain (linter, test runner, formatter, compiler), and a secure-by-default permissions model. Deno 2 (Oct 2024) added full Node.js and npm backwards compatibility, and the surrounding open-source ecosystem includes the Fresh web framework, the JSR package registry, the Deno Standard Library, and Claw Patrol, an MIT-licensed agent firewall released in May 2026. Participation in TC39 and WinterTC (TC55) anchors the company's web-standards positioning.
Deno's commercial business runs on top of the open-source core and is anchored by Deno Deploy, a serverless edge platform that runs customer code in V8 isolates across 28 global data centers with sub-second cold starts. Deno Deploy reached general availability in February 2026 and is offered via four tiers — Free, Pro ($20/mo), Builder ($200/mo), and custom Enterprise — with usage-based overage on requests, CPU time, memory, KV, and bandwidth. Three adjacent commercial products layer onto Deploy: Deno Subhosting, a white-label OEM API that lets platform partners run customer code (used by Netlify Edge Functions and Slack's developer platform); Deno Sandbox, a Firecracker-microVM service launched February 2026 for safely executing untrusted and AI-generated code; and Deno for Enterprise, a paid support contract for self-hosted Deno runtime users. Compliance posture includes SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, HIPAA BAA availability, and a 99.95% reliability SLA on Enterprise.
Deno serves a mix of named enterprise customers (Slack, Netlify, Supabase, Plaid, The Guardian, Bank of America, Salesforce, Spotify, Stripe, Tencent) and a long tail of individual developers and SMB teams acquired through product-led growth, with go-to-market motion spanning self-serve console sign-up, direct enterprise sales, community-led developer relations, and an OEM/Subhosting channel. As of the source period the company had raised approximately $25.9M across a 2021 seed and a $21M Series A led by Sequoia Capital in June 2022.
Deno firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Deno
- Legal name
- Deno Land Inc.
- Website
- https://deno.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2021
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Deno Land Inc. builds the open-source Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and the commercial Deno Deploy edge platform, serving enterprise customers (Slack, Netlify, Supabase, Plaid) and a long tail of developers via self-serve and Subhosting OEM channels.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Deno industry classification
Industry- Product category
- JavaScript Runtime and Serverless Edge Platform
- NAICS
- Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Enterprise PaaS (App Runtime & Managed Application Platforms) (HDAEAKAB)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM: RUM/Synthetic) (HDABAJAH), Virtualization & Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Management (HDABABAB)
Keywords
Where Deno is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Diego
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices3 records
Markets served
Deno business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Deno Deploy subscription tiers: Tiered SaaS subscriptions: Free ($0/month), Pro ($20/month), Builder ($200/month), Enterprise (custom). Includes included allotments for requests, bandwidth, CPU time, memory, storage, KV, team members, apps, and overage usage-based fees beyond the included amounts.
- Deno Sandbox usage-based compute: Per-CPU-hour ($0.05/CPU-hr), per-GiB-hour memory ($0.016/GiB-hr), and per-GiB-month volume storage ($0.20/GiB-month) billed against the organization's Deno Deploy plan.
- Deno Subhosting API: Managed service revenue from platform builders using Subhosting to programmatically deploy and execute customer code at scale; targets Builder ($200/month) and Enterprise plans with up to 100,000+ apps per organization.
- Deno for Enterprise support contracts: Paid enterprise support plans for the open-source Deno runtime, offering priority 1:1 Slack channel, guaranteed response times, and prioritized feature requests. Optional HIPAA BAA available.
- Freemium open-source core: Free, open-source Deno runtime (MIT-licensed) acts as the funnel into paid Deno Deploy, Subhosting, and Sandbox offerings. Free tier of Deno Deploy supports 1M requests/month, 20GB egress, and 5 team members.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium | Pay-as-you-go | Free tier: $0/month for personal projects |
| Subscription | Monthly | Pro: $20/month for team collaboration |
| Subscription | Monthly | Builder: $200/month for Subhosting users and growing platforms |
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | Enterprise: Custom pricing for maximum support, security, and performance |
| Usage-based | Pay-as-you-go | Deno Sandbox usage-based add-on to Deno Deploy plans |
Go-to-market motion4 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels7 records
Deno product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Deno builds an open-source, secure-by-default JavaScript and TypeScript runtime built on V8 and Rust, paired with a commercial globally distributed edge cloud (Deno Deploy) that executes user code in lightweight V8 isolates. The commercial portfolio extends to Deno Sandbox (Firecracker microVMs for safely running untrusted or AI-generated code with isolated secrets and network egress control), Subhosting (a white-label API for platform builders to deploy and scale customer code), and Deno for Enterprise (priority support, 99.95% SLA, SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and HIPAA BAA).
Product overview
Deno offers a unified platform built around its open-source Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, which serves as the foundation for a commercial cloud platform (Deno Deploy) and surrounding ecosystem of open-source modules (Fresh, JSR, Deno Standard Library, Deno KV) and security tools (Claw Patrol). Deno Deploy is the commercial serverless hosting layer running code on V8 isolates, extended by Deno Sandbox for securely executing untrusted or AI-generated code in Firecracker microVMs, Subhosting for white-label multi-tenant code execution, and `deployd` for self-hosting. Claw Patrol is a separately-released open-source agent firewall that integrates with the broader Deno ecosystem. Enterprise support, professional services, and compliance (SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001) wrap the portfolio.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Deno Deploy: Serverless hosting platform for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, powered by Deno's V8 isolate cloud; reached general availability in February 2026.
- Deno Sandbox
- Deno Subhosting
- Deno for Enterprise
- Fresh
- JSR
- Claw Patrol
Products and services
- Deno Open-source next-generation JavaScript and TypeScript runtime built on V8 and Rust, with native TypeScript/JSX, secure-by-default permissions, web-standard APIs (fetch, WebSocket, etc.), built-in lint/test/fmt/compile toolchain, and full Node and npm compatibility. Distributed free via GitHub, JSR, and npm for individual developers and engineering teams.
- Deno Deploy Commercial serverless hosting platform for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, running customer code in lightweight V8 isolates across 28 global data centers with sub-100ms cold starts, automatic GitHub deployments, preview domains per PR, built-in OpenTelemetry, Deno KV, cron, tunnels, and managed data layer provisioning. Sold via tiered subscriptions (Free, Pro $20/mo, Builder $200/mo, Enterprise custom) with usage-based overage.
- Deno Sandbox Service for securely running untrusted or AI-generated code in isolated Linux microVMs (Firecracker) on Deno Deploy. Provides isolated filesystem, network stack, secrets, and process tree per workload; secret-injecting outbound proxy with host allowlists (allowNet); persistent volumes and snapshots; SSH/HTTP/VS Code exposure; and one-call deployment to production via sandbox.deploy(). Sold as usage-based add-on to Deno Deploy plans.
- Subhosting White-label, programmatic API (api.deno.com/v2) and SDK that lets platform builders deploy and execute user-supplied code at scale on Deno Deploy's V8-isolate infrastructure. Provides Layers for shared configuration across thousands of deployments, full OpenTelemetry observability, and scales to 100,000+ apps per organization on the Builder plan. Targets SaaS platforms needing secure multi-tenant code execution.
- Deno for Enterprise Paid enterprise support plan for projects built on the Deno open-source runtime. Includes a priority 1:1 Slack support channel with guaranteed response times, prioritized feature requests, SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance, DPA, optional HIPAA BAA, 99.95% reliability SLA, dedicated Anycast IP, authenticated invocations, and onboarding support.
- Fresh Open-source, Deno-native full-stack web framework built with Preact and Vite, using an island-based architecture that ships zero JavaScript by default, with server-side rendering and opt-in client interactivity. Targeted at Deno developers building edge-deployed web apps.
- JSR Open-source, TypeScript-first, ESM-only package registry designed for the JavaScript ecosystem. Hosts the Deno Standard Library and is governed by an independent open governance board. Distributed free for the JavaScript developer community.
- Claw Patrol Open-source (MIT-licensed, alpha) security gateway/firewall for AI agents. Routes agent traffic via WireGuard or Tailscale to a gateway that terminates TLS, parses inner protocols (HTTP, SQL, Kubernetes), holds real credentials and injects them only when destinations match policy, and evaluates each request against HCL-defined rules with allow/deny verdicts or chains of LLM-judge and human-in-the-loop approvers. Distributed free for developer and enterprise security teams.
Quantifiable outcome
- 5x faster page load speeds and 30% conversion-rate uplift for Deco.cx clients (e.g., Zee.Dog)
- +6 more outcomes
Companies that use Deno
Customer profileNamed customers7 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Deno technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration12 records
AI capability8 records
Feature10 records
Deno partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators10 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Deno competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Cloudflare: Cloudflare Workers is the most direct competitor to Deno Deploy, offering V8-isolate-based serverless JavaScript/TypeScript execution on a global edge network with KV/Durable Objects storage and a similar developer-experience-focused GTM.
- Vercel: Vercel provides Edge Functions and a serverless platform for JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (Next.js), competing head-to-head with Deno Deploy for frontend and full-stack workloads on a global edge.
- Bun: Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript/TypeScript runtime and toolkit competing directly with the Deno runtime on speed, built-in tooling, and developer experience, with growing cloud execution ambitions.
- Fastly: Fastly Compute@Edge offers a WebAssembly and JavaScript edge compute platform with strong enterprise and CDN-adjacent positioning, competing with Deno Deploy for latency-sensitive global workloads.
Broad incumbents
- Node.js: Node.js is the incumbent JavaScript runtime that Deno was created to improve upon; it remains the dominant backend JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (npm), defining the baseline Deno must beat for developer adoption.
- AWS Lambda: AWS Lambda is the broad serverless incumbent with Lambda@Edge and Firecracker microVMs that underpin much of the cloud's serverless compute, competing with Deno Deploy and Deno Sandbox for enterprise workloads.
Emerging players
- Netlify: Netlify is both a customer/partner (Netlify Edge Functions run on Deno Subhosting, processing 255M req/day) and a partial peer in edge functions for web applications, with overlapping but differentiated GTM.
- Fly.io: Fly.io runs application servers close to users globally with Firecracker microVMs, offering an alternative to Deno Deploy for full-stack JavaScript applications and competing in the same developer mindshare.
- Render: Render is a unified cloud platform for web services, APIs, and background workers, competing with Deno Deploy for developer-friendly JavaScript/TypeScript hosting with simpler pricing.
- Supabase: Supabase Edge Functions run on Deno Deploy (Supabase is a customer), but Supabase is also an adjacent peer in the Postgres/backend-as-a-service space, providing a model for how platform companies leverage Deno infrastructure.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Deno social profiles
Digital presenceDeno compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance6 records
Deno financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Deno leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles3 records
Deno funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds3 records
Investors7 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Deno M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Deno
What does Deno do?
Deno builds an open-source, secure-by-default JavaScript and TypeScript runtime built on V8 and Rust, paired with a commercial globally distributed edge cloud (Deno Deploy) that executes user code in lightweight V8 isolates. The commercial portfolio extends to Deno Sandbox (Firecracker microVMs for safely running untrusted or AI-generated code with isolated secrets and network egress control), Subhosting (a white-label API for platform builders to deploy and scale customer code), and Deno for Enterprise (priority support, 99.95% SLA, SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and HIPAA BAA).
Is Deno a public or private company?
Deno is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Deno founded?
Deno was founded in 2021. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Deno based?
Deno is headquartered in San Diego, United States, in the North America region.
How does Deno make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. Deno Deploy subscription tiers are the primary driver. The others are deno Sandbox usage-based compute, deno Subhosting API, deno for Enterprise support contracts and freemium open-source core.
Who are Deno's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Cloudflare, Vercel, Bun and Fastly. Broad incumbents are Node.js and AWS Lambda. Emerging players are Netlify, Fly.io, Render and Supabase.
Does Deno have an API?
Yes. Deno offers multiple public APIs: (1) Deno Sandbox API via the @deno/sandbox SDK (available on npm, JSR, and PyPI) which lets developers programmatically create and manage lightweight Linux microVMs in the cloud on Deno Deploy for executing untrusted code, with strict network policies, isolated secrets, SSH/HTTP/VS Code exposure, and direct deployment to production via sandbox.deploy(). Authentication is via access tokens created in the Deno Deploy dashboard (default 24-hour expiration). (2) Deno Subhosting API (REST) documented at api.deno.com/v2 for programmatically deploying user code on behalf of customers. (3) OpenTelemetry-based observability API for logs, traces, and metrics. Developer documentation is at docs.deno.com/sandbox.
What industry is Deno in?
Deno's product category is JavaScript Runtime and Serverless Edge Platform. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEAKAB, Enterprise PaaS (App Runtime & Managed Application Platforms), with a secondary code of HDABAJAH, Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM: RUM/Synthetic). Its NAICS code is 541511 and its SIC code is 7372.