INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
French startup Strapi has raised a $4 million seed round led by Accel and Stride.vc
The company has been working on an open-source Node.js headless content management system.That’s a lot of technical words in a row, but
it’s not that hard to understand what Strapi is
Content management systems, or CMS, are web applications that let you publish and manage content on a website
It can be a blog, a corporate website with multiple pages, a portfolio, etc
The most popular CMS in the world is WordPress.Over the past few years, many companies and developers have started to separate the CMS back
end (the administration pages where you write and upload content) and the front end (the public website accessible to anyone).This way, you
can run a CMS in the back end, and develop your own custom front end that queries the back end using API calls — this is what’s called a
It provides a ton of flexibility and should make your website faster
This is how TechCrunch.com works for instance, with WordPress running as a headless CMS.Strapi has become quite popular in the headless CMS
space, with 500,000 downloads and 250 contributors to the open-source project
The first version was released on GitHub in 2015.Anybody can download Strapi and run it on their own server
You can then develop your front end, fetch content in your mobile app using the Strapi API and more
Strapi lets you customize the admin panel so that you only see the fields you need when you add content
It works with SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL and Postgres databases.The company plans to build an ecosystem of plugins to expand the features of
Eventually, the startup could launch a hosted version of Strapi so you don’t have to manage the server infrastructure yourself.Solomon
Hykes, Guillermo Rauch and Eli Collins are also participating in today’s round
Existing investors include Bpifrance, SGPA, François-Charles Debeunne, Jean-Philippe Bellaiche, Kima Ventures, Nicolas Debock, Patrick
Dalsace and Nicolas Rosset.
