Dylibso is a web assembly innovator company dedicated to solving the challenges of taking WebAssembly to production. Established in 2020, their focus is the development of an open source Universal For System (Extism) and a suite of products which provide developers with the necessary tools to utilize WebAssembly in development, integration and in production. The company has recently secured $6.6 million in seed funding led by Felicis Ventures with participation from other major pre-seed investors, boldstart Ventures, Pebblebed and Crew Capital. This allows them to solidify their mission of helping teams take WebAssembly to production and make their first product, Modsurfer, generally available.
Modsurfer helps developers and operations teams track, investigate and validate WebAssembly modules with tools offering them a system of record plus diagnostics application. The features include X-ray-like insight into WASM binaries allowing them to gain visibility and analytics, providing them with insight and visibility that wasn’t possible before. Modsurfer also brings maturity to WebAssembly in four core areas: serverless, browser, plug-ins and web3/blockchain.
Steve Manuel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dylibso, and a key personality who, together with CTO Zachary Cohen and COO Ben Grinnell, is leading the team into taking WebAssembly to production. Throughout his career, Steve has built and managed distributed systems and dealt with cyber security risks across multiple industries, providing the skill and knowledge required to lead Dylibso into becoming the go-to platform for WASM developers. His previous experience spans various staff, research and development roles at companies such as CloudFlare and New Relic. Steve brings a passion for innovation which leads Dylibso’s mission of providing a platform that helps developers manoeuvre their compiling and integration needs.
