Deno is an open-source JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly runtime built on V8, Rust, and Tokio, designed with secure defaults for modern software development. Deno's Twitter Score is 17 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #58,400 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Deno was co-founded by Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder and is affiliated with Deno Land Inc., the company behind its development. Deno Land Inc. raised a $4.9 million seed round in March 2021, followed by a $21 million investment round in June 2022 led by Sequoia Capital. Additional backers include Insight Partners, Long Journey Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Mozilla Corporation, Automattic, Netlify, Four Rivers Ventures, and Rauch Capital.
Deno sits at the center of a broader ecosystem of open-source projects and commercial products. On the open-source side, Deno Land Inc. maintains Fresh and JSR alongside the runtime itself. Its commercial offerings include Deno Deploy, a serverless platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript applications, as well as Deno Sandbox and Subhosting. The account has published 1,802 posts and has been mentioned by 46 accounts a total of 86 times, reflecting steady engagement across the developer community.
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The accounts that follow Deno include 101 founders, 22 angel investors, 10 influencers and 2 VCs, among them Lex Fridman, Meow, Zmanian, Sequoia Capital, dcbuilder.eth and Dan FinIay.