npm Raises $8M in Series A Funding

npm, Inc., a Oakland, CA-based provider of software tools for JavaScript developers, raised $8m in Series A funding round.As part of the funding, Bessemer Partner Ethan Kurzweil joined npm’s board.The company had previously raised $2.6m in seed funding from True Ventures, Matt Mullenweg, and a number of other individual investors Founded in 2014 by Isaac Schlueter, Laurie Voss and Rod Boothby, npm hosts and manages a package manager for JavaScript, which is used daily by 2.4 million developers worldwide with one billion packages downloaded every month.The company has also launched npm Private Modules, a feature that enables developers to share and re-use private and confidential code.Companies that leverage npm for publishing its SDKs for JavaScript include Twilio, Google, Microsoft, New Relic and Amazon Web Services.