Meteor Software

What Meteor Software does

Meteor Software is a private Canadian developer-tools company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia. The company operates a two-product JavaScript application ecosystem: Meteor.js, an open-source full-stack web framework that enables rapid prototyping and cross-platform (web, mobile, desktop) application development in JavaScript, and Galaxy, a managed cloud platform for deploying and hosting Meteor-based applications. The combined offering targets software developers and small-to-mid engineering teams that want to standardize on a single language across the stack.

The business model centers on a classic open-core structure: Meteor.js itself is free and open-source, designed to drive community adoption and developer mindshare, while Galaxy is the commercial layer that converts that adoption into recurring hosting and infrastructure revenue. The company has raised more than $53M across four funding rounds between 2012 and 2019, with Tier-1 venture participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. In 2015 the company also acquired Percolate Studio, extending its capabilities into agency and design services.

The company is small (11-50 employees) and privately held. Leadership comprises co-founder and CEO Geoff Schmidt, CEO Frederico Maia Arantes, and a Vice President of Strategy and Community Growth, reflecting a dual focus on product execution and developer-community cultivation. No pricing, customer count, ARR, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed in the source material, and no recent funding activity has been recorded since mid-2019.

Name

Meteor Software

Website

https://meteor.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Meteor Software (founded 2011, Victoria, Canada) builds Meteor.js, an open-source full-stack JavaScript framework, and Galaxy, a managed cloud deployment platform for Meteor applications, serving JavaScript developers and engineering teams seeking unified cross-platform development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Victoria

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Meteor Software provides Meteor.js, an open-source full-stack JavaScript framework for rapidly building web, mobile, and desktop applications, paired with Galaxy, a managed cloud platform purpose-built for deploying and hosting Meteor.js applications. Together the two offerings form an integrated development-and-deployment stack targeting JavaScript developers and engineering teams.

Product overview

Meteor Software offers a JavaScript application ecosystem centered around Meteor.js, an open-source framework for building web, mobile, and desktop applications, paired with Galaxy, a managed deployment platform for hosting Meteor applications. The product portfolio consists of two integrated offerings: the Meteor.js development framework and the Galaxy deployment service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Meteor.js An open-source full-stack JavaScript web application framework that enables rapid prototyping and development of cross-platform web, mobile, and desktop applications using a single language across client and server.
• Galaxy

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Fly.io: Fly.io runs application servers close to users with global distribution, providing a Node.js-friendly PaaS that competes with Galaxy in the JavaScript application hosting market.
• Railway: Railway is a developer-focused PaaS for deploying applications and databases, including Node.js stacks, competing head-to-head with Galaxy for full-stack JavaScript deployments.
• Vercel: Vercel develops Next.js (an open-source React framework) and operates a cloud platform for deploying and hosting JavaScript applications — the closest structural analogue to Meteor Software's Meteor.js + Galaxy offering.
• Netlify: Netlify provides a PaaS focused on modern web frameworks (Jamstack), directly competing with Galaxy for JavaScript/Node.js application hosting and deployment.
• Render: Render offers a unified cloud platform for hosting web services, APIs, and databases from multiple languages including Node.js — a direct PaaS competitor to Galaxy in the developer-targeted cloud-hosting space.

Broad incumbents

• Heroku: Heroku (Salesforce) is an established multi-language PaaS that has historically supported Node.js/Meteor.js deployments and competes broadly with Galaxy for developer hosting workloads.
• Firebase: Firebase (Google) provides a backend-as-a-service and hosting platform for web and mobile applications, including real-time data features that overlap with Meteor.js's traditional differentiators.

Emerging players

• RedwoodJS: RedwoodJS is an open-source full-stack JavaScript/React framework, directly comparable to Meteor.js as an integrated full-stack development experience targeting similar developer use cases.
• AdonisJS: AdonisJS is an open-source Node.js full-stack framework with built-in ORM and tooling, comparable to Meteor.js as a Node-centric web application framework.
• Supabase: Supabase offers an open-source backend platform with real-time data and authentication, addressing developer needs that historically made Meteor.js attractive as an integrated full-stack solution.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/meteorjs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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