Lightbend

Lightbend, doing business as Akka and formerly known as Typesafe, is a company founded in 2011 by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka middleware, and Paul Phillips. It provides a platform for building reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and the Scala programming language, with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Slick database library for Scala and the sbt build tool. Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform and is one of the main contributors of Reactive Streams. In February 2016 the company was renamed from Typesafe to Lightbend and adopted a new logo.