New start-up leverages Scala a product of EPFL

Thanks to the raising of three million dollars, Martin Odersky has just created the company Typesafe. This investment will enable the Scala programming language - a promising alternative to Java - to increase its use on the Internet. Do you speak Scala? Many big companies active on the Web now reply in the affirmative. Twitter, Foursquare , LinkedIn and the internet site of the British newspaper The Guardian (guardian.co.uk) have adopted this programming language, developed at EPFL by Martin Odersky, Professor in the computer science section of the school. Last week, its creator announced the launch of a new company, with its offices at the Science Park at Ecublens. It's called Typesafe, has just raised three million dollars, and will give a serious boost to the Scala language. The main investor in this round of financing - Greylock, based in Boston and in Silicon Valley - is not just any old investor.