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September 30, 2011 06:50 pm GMT

Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform

PantheonSan Francisco-based Pantheonopened its doors to the public today after a year building its Web development platform for Drupal sites. (Drupal is an open-source content management system). Pantheon is a combination of a Web development tool in the cloud and a Web hosting and management service. Companies can develop, test, host, and manage their websites on Pantheon It is all based in the cloud, and the service is free for developers. Once you make a site go live, it costs $100 a month.The company raised a $1.3 million seed round a year ago from First Round Capital, Baseline, Floodgate, Founder Collective, and Heroku foundersJames Lindenbaum,Adam Wiggins, andOrion Henry. You can think of Pantheon as a Heroku for Drupal sites in that it puts the web development environment in the cloud. Founder and CEo Zack Rosen has simpler description of what Pantheon offers. " You can get an enterprise-complete website for your organization with the level of polish of a consumer-grade site."

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