{"id":22105,"date":"2013-12-16T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=22105"},"modified":"2013-12-16T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T08:28:02","slug":"sensio-labs-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/12\/sensio-labs-raises\/","title":{"rendered":"Symfony creator SensioLabs raises $7 Million to make PHP more professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22155\" alt=\"symfony_black_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/symfony_black_01.png\" width=\"951\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sensiolabs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SensioLabs<\/a>, the creator of PHP framework Symfony, has closed a $7 Million Series A in order to finance international growth, the startup announced today. Founded in 2005 by\u00a0Fabien Potencier and Gregory Pascal, the company has come a long way since its founders first created the Symfony framework in 2005. Today, like most startups based on open source projects, the company operates a services business providing development support on Symfony to large clients like Orange, Saint Gobain, Drupal, Peugeot, Blablacar &amp; more.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to WordPress &amp; Drupal, which make up respectively roughly 20% and 9% of the Internet today (both of which run on PHP), PHP makes up the vast majority of the Internet &#8211; roughly 70% according to Sensiolabs CEO Gregory Pascal. Known for being a pretty &#8216;immature&#8217; programming language, Pascal sees Symfony&#8217;s role in the PHP ecosystem as that of a more &#8216;professional&#8217; face of PHP.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to Springsource (the company behind Spring, sold to VMWare) for inspiration, Pascal says the road ahead will be an exciting one. While the <a href=\"http:\/\/sensiolabs.com\/en\/a_propos\/communique_de_presse_funds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official announcement<\/a>\u00a0states that the company will be looking to &#8216;internationalize,&#8217; the language &amp; company itself remain completely international, with France making up less than 15% of the total market.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the most common complaint about PHP has been that it is sloppy or child&#8217;s play, I think the guys at Sensiolabs have their work cut out for them. Adoption of Symfony has been by and large successful and well-received &#8211; while some complain about the massive jump from Symfony1 to Symfony2, which made it difficult for out-dated sites to keep up to date, this is likely just part of the growing pains that come with taking a junior-level programming language and building a senior-level framework on top of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SensioLabs, the creator of PHP framework Symfony, has closed a $7 Million Series A in order to finance international growth, the startup announced today. Founded in 2005 by\u00a0Fabien Potencier and Gregory Pascal, the company has come a long way since its founders first created the Symfony framework in 2005. Today, like most startups based on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":22122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[3197],"class_list":["post-22105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-php"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}