Vercel launches Edge Designer and raises $120M to accelerate edge-native apps

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Edge Designer provides a GUI for building and previewing edge functions, split testing routing rules, and visualizing global request flows. The product is intended to make edge capabilities accessible to product teams that traditionally work in visual design tools rather than infrastructure.

Vercel’s $120 million raise will increase capacity for global deployments, deliver new observability features, and fund integrations with major CDN and cloud providers. The company emphasizes developer experience with new templates for performant, low-latency web apps.

Early adopters report faster experimentation cycles and simpler collaboration between designers and backend engineers. Vercel plans to make Edge Designer available to enterprise customers this quarter and extend a free tier for prototyping.