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LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
LocalStack shifts app development and testing off the cloud and onto developers' local machines, starting with a focus on AWS.
For context, LocalStack started out as an open-source project while founder and co-CEO Waldemar Hummer(pictured above right, with co-founder Gerta Sheganaku, and Notable Capital managing partner Glenn Solomon) was at Atlassian in 2017. The idea germinated as a side-project in the intervening years, with Hummer teaming up with Gerta Sheganaku, whom he’d known since his time at the University of Technology in Vienna in 2013, to drive early community adoption for the open-source project. “By interacting with the community, we learned that some of the users were working in some of the largest companies of the world, trying to deploy LocalStack not only on their local machines, but also in their CI [continuous integration] pipelines.”
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