It provides a platform for building reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming language, with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Slick database library for Scala and the sbt build tool.

[2][3][4] In February 2016, the company was renamed from Typesafe to Lightbend and adopted a new logo.

The company's CEO is Tyler Jewell and its CTO is Jonas Bonér.

[5] Lightbend initially raised $3 million for Series A funding from Greylock Partners.

[6] Lightbend then raised another $14 million for Series B from Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Juniper Networks and Francois Stieger.