Buf
$93.5Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
$68Mlatest round · Venture round · Nov 2021 · 4 yr ago
2backers · Abstraction Capital, Garage Capital
2020founded
Overview
Buf is the toolchain for Protobuf, gRPC, and ConnectRPC - lint and generate code with the Buf CLI, publish and govern schemas on the Buf Schema Registry.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$93.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$68M
Venture round · Nov 2021 · 4 yr ago
Backers
2
Abstraction Capital, Garage Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
59 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 16
On the Hacker News front page Protobuf has LSP support · 173 points
Oct 29, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime · 205 points
Sep 12, 2022
On the Hacker News front page The Protobuf Language Specification · 194 points
Jun 1, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Connect: A Better gRPC · 308 points
Nov 23, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $68M · SEC Form D
Apr 16, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $20.7M · SEC Form D
Sep 4, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $4.8M · SEC Form D
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.34%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
54
best: 308 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Nov 2021 | $68M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | $20.7M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2020 | $4.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Buf Technologies, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Peter EdgeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$188k
Median offered salary
0
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
1
In the register as Buf Technologies, Inc., Buffalo, NY
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People
Peter Edge
Executive Officer, Director
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News
Protobuf, JSON Schema, and OpenAPI
Learn how to generate JSON Schema and OpenAPI specs using Protobuf.
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A faster Protovalidate
Go, Java, and TypeScript now run Protovalidate's standard rules as native code, while protovalidate-py 2.0 replaces its pure-Python core with a much faster native extension.
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gRPC-Web Failed the Web Buf
Why gRPC-Web made the browser a second-class client, the protocol compromises that followed, and what a web-native RPC protocol looks like instead.
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connect-rust joins the Connect project
Anthropic built connect-rust and has contributed it to the Connect project. Rust now has an official implementation that speaks Connect, gRPC, and gRPC-Web.
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The modern Protobuf workflow
A tour of the modern Protobuf workflow, from compatibility and code generation to RPC, validation, and editor tooling, and how each piece builds on the same schema.
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Protobuf-ES just got a lot faster
Protobuf-ES v2.14 serializes up to 5x faster and parses up to 2x faster, with no API changes and no new build options. Update the package and your code gets faster.
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Protobuf Tip #10: Choosing the right integer type
Protobuf has ten integer types. Use int64. In Go, even the slow cases decode a thousand integers in a few microseconds, so the choice almost never matters.
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protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.
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Protobuf now has full LSP support
Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, spec-compliant LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Buffalo
United States
HQ