DEV Community Inc., a social network for developers, today said it has raised $11.5 million in new funding to expand the development of its technology platform.

The Series A round was led by Mayfield and included OSS Capital and Charge VC.

Founded in 2017, DEV offers a social networking platform for software developers that aims to assist collaboration and networked learning. The DEV social networking platform code is open source, and the code and company do not track users nor centralize control, differing from other social networks.

It’s designed to serve programmers of all backgrounds and experience levels looking for a community experience beyond code collaboration and troubleshooting advice. DEV members can collaborate on publishing work, participate in conversations, elevating their skills and support each other.

The site says it has 5 million unique visitors a month and more than 250,000 active members.

“We started with a simple, but daunting, mission of bringing truly inclusive community to the software industry,” DEV co-founder Ben Halpern said in a statement. “As the field of software development goes mainstream, it is unacceptable that gatekeeping, discouragement and harassment remain so deeply ingrained in the culture. Having deeply important core values begets more values and as we collaborated with the community, we discovered the incredibly positive impact we could develop through leaning into open source for the purpose of transparency and trust.”

The funding was the second venture capital round for DEV. The company previously raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from The Fund and Charge VC.

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