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Astro details its funding path as it joins Cloudflare

Today, Astro shared how it plans to keep long-term framework work sustainable after The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare, with sponsorships continuing to fund community maintainers.

Today, Astro outlined how it will fund ongoing development after The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare.

  • The team says the company first raised funding in 2021, and has since distributed more than $500,000 in open‑source sponsorships to maintainers and community contributors.
  • More than half of Astro’s core maintainers are described as community contributors, with continued support routed through programs like Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors.
  • Full‑time staff from The Astro Technology Company are now Cloudflare employees and will keep working on Astro full‑time.
  • Sponsorship funding has covered specific initiatives such as Starlight, font optimization, and type‑safe environment variables.
  • The same sponsorship model has also backed work beyond Astro itself, including Volar, Expressive Code, and Astro-focused ESLint tooling.