Our Seed Investment in VoidZero: Evan You’s Bold Vision for JavaScript Tooling

Today we are thrilled to announce our $4.6 million seed investment in Evan You’s company, VoidZero. For those of you familiar with the world of web development, Evan needs no introduction. As the creator of Vue and Vite, two widely adopted and popular projects in the JavaScript ecosystem, he has been at the forefront of redefining how developers build modern applications for over a decade. 

Evan launched Vite at the end of 2020, and since then, the project and community have become tremendously popular hitting over 15 million weekly downloads on npm. When we met for the first time in person last year (in Singapore!) to talk through the vision for the project, it was clear that Evan had been thinking about a much more ambitious scope of work to address the fragmentation of tooling that has occurred in the JavaScript ecosystem. Vite was one part of a much larger picture around a high-performance, composable, and runtime agnostic toolchain that could provide JavaScript developers with an easy, fast way to build their projects.

Since founding VoidZero, Evan has quickly assembled a team with extensive knowledge in JavaScript tooling, featuring creators and key contributors to popular open-source projects such as Vite, Vitest, Oxc, and former core contributors to Rspack. The team has been incredibly active in shipping new features in Oxc (a new parser, resolver, transformer, and linter), Rolldown (an incredibly fast bundler built on top of Oxc), and Vitest (a test runner for web apps). The team’s goal is to integrate the bundler into Vite in the coming months and eventually have Vite powered by both Rolldown and Oxc. 

Evan is truly one of those rare individuals whose work is already used by millions of developers every single day. We’re excited to support Evan and the VoidZero team as they build the next generation of tools that will define the future of web development. To hear more about VoidZero, read Evan’s blog post here.