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Mason
Five of Mason's largest competitors, including each company's website, overview, location, size, key customers, and geography served, have been compiled in the attached spreadsheet.
Methodology
Mason is the world's first front-end-as-a-service platform that "lets you plan, design, build, and deploy fully-function front-end experiences without writing a single line of code." Therefore, Mason operates in relatively new industry of front-end-as-a-service platforms. The industry is small and consists of mainly start-ups, which is why we were able to identify almost, if not all, the companies currently visible in the FAAS space. Our approach was to first identify all the companies that are publicly stating they operate in the FAAS industry, and then sort them by their revenue (if available) as a primary criterion, and funding (if available) as a secondary criterion. If neither of the criteria could be met, the company would not qualify as one of Mason's largest competitors.
Five of Mason's largest competitors
The companies which are advertising their work as front-end-as-a-service platform are as follows:
1. FRONTASTIC
- Frontastic is the Frontend as a Service provider for the API-First eCommerce and headless CMS.
- Frontastic does not have any net revenue yet but has raised over $100,000 in funding.
2. MOBIFY
- Mobify is a Front-end as a Service (FaaS) for building "modern, customer-first shopping experiences through Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and native apps."
- Mobify does not have any revenue yet but has raised $27.7 million in funding.
3. WALMART LABS
- Walmart Labs is Walmart's spin-off Front-end as a Service platform that is responsible for Walmart’s global e-Commerce initiatives.
- Walmart Labs has a revenue of $50 million with the funding amount not disclosed as it's part of the larger Walmart Corporation.
4. 3VOT
- 3VOT is a Front-End as a Service that allows companies to build apps five time faster with "reusable NPM components and the best of the modern collaborative models."
- Neither funding nor revenue data is available to the public.
5. NUWEBA
- Nuweba is a FaaS platform that offers a one-click migration from AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, IBM Cloud Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, and "claims to offer a tenfold speed increase with 8-40ms invocation latency without container reuse."
- Nuweba raised $4.3 million and has $1 million in revenue.
6. EXTEND
- Extend is a now-retired platform that operated as a SaaS turned FaaS provider.
- Neither funding nor revenue data is available to the public.
7. SWIFT LABS
- Swift Labs is a "Wireless & IoT Product Development and Testing Services" platform.
- Swift Labs raised $500,000 in funding.
Out of the seven companies, five had published data for revenue and/or funding. Therefore, five of the largest Mason competitors based on revenue and/or funding for Mason are:
- Walmart Labs
- Mobify
- Nuweba
- Swift Labs
- Frontastic
A competitive analysis for Mason's five of the largest competitors has been compiled in the attached spreadsheet.