Stackify

Last updated
Stackify
Company type Private enterprise
Industry Software
Founded2012
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Matt Watson (Chairman, CEO)
ProductsPrefix, Retrace
Website stackify.com

Stackify LLC is an American software company based in Leawood, Kansas. It was founded in January 2012 by Matt Watson, an American entrepreneur. [1] [2] Stackify assists software developers in troubleshooting and provides support with a suite of tools including Prefix and Retrace. [3] [4] Stackify claims that typical APM software is insufficient in managing application code and that its own APM software includes detailed insights for developers, checking code for errors in real time and analyzing applications for performance problems. [5]

In January 2019, Stackify raised $2.74 million in convertible debt financing from undisclosed investors. [6] In November 2019, the company raised $6 million from Cypress Growth Capital, the Mid-America Angels investment network, along with local angel investors. [7]

Related Research Articles

Software AG is a German multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software for business process management, integration, and big data analytics. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and has offices worldwide.

SpiderOak Inc. is a US-based software company focused on satellite cybersecurity.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Splunk</span> American technology company

Splunk Inc. is an American software company based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data via a web-style interface. Its software helps capture, index and correlate real-time data in a searchable repository, from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wix.com</span> Israeli software company

Wix.com Ltd. is an Israeli software company, publicly listed in the US, that provides cloud-based web development services. It offers tools for creating HTML5 websites and mobile sites using online drag-and-drop editing. Along with its headquarters and other offices in Israel, Wix also has offices in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, the United States, Ukraine, and Singapore.

Sauce Labs is an American cloud-hosted, web and mobile application automated testing platform company based in San Francisco, California.

AppDynamics is a full-stack application performance management (APM) and IT operations analytics (ITOA) company based in San Francisco. The company focuses on managing the performance and availability of applications across cloud computing environments, IT infrastructure, network architecture, digital user experience design, application security threat detection, observability, and data centers. In March 2017, AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion. The software intelligence platform is used in enterprise and public sector SaaS applications such as the financial service sector, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, and government for full-stack observability and IT infrastructure monitoring.

New Relic is a US-based web tracking and analytics company. The company's cloud-based software allows websites and mobile apps to track user interactions and service operators' software and hardware performance.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Datadog</span> An observability and security platform for cloud applications.

Datadog, Inc. provides an observability and security SaaS platform for cloud applications. The platform helps corporations monitor servers, databases, software tools, and infrastructure services.

Idera, Inc. is the parent company of a portfolio of brands that offer B2B software including database tools, application development tools, test management tools, and DevOps tools. It is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has offices in Australia, Austria, and the United Kingdom. It is owned by the private equity firms HGGC, Partners Group and TA Associates.

ZeroTurnaround was a Java development tools software company founded by Jevgeni Kabanov and Toomas Römer in 2007. It was acquired by Rogue Wave Software in 2017. In January 2019, Rogue Wave Software and the legacy ZeroTurnaround software products were acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer Perforce.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dynatrace</span> American technology company

Dynatrace, Inc. is a global technology company that provides a software observability platform based on artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. Dynatrace technologies are used to monitor, analyze, and optimize application performance, software development and security practices, IT infrastructure, and user experience for businesses and government agencies throughout the world.

ThousandEyes, Inc. is a network intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Dublin, London, New York, Tokyo, and Austin, Texas. The company produces software that analyzes the performance of local and wide area networks. On May 29, 2020, Cisco announced it would be acquiring ThousandEyes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tricentis</span> Austrian software testing company

Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. It provides software testing automation and software quality assurance products for enterprise software.

Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops productivity tools built around Docker, which automates the deployment of code inside software containers. Major commercial products of the company are Docker Hub, a central repository of containers, Docker Desktop, a GUI application for Windows and Mac to manage containers. The historic offering was Docker Enterprise PaaS business, acquired by Mirantis. The company is also an active contributor to various CNCF projects, such as containerd and runC. The main open source offering of the company are Docker Engine and buildkit which are rebranded under the Moby umbrella project. The core specification, Dockerfile, still includes the company trademark, however.

Andela is an American global job placement network for software developers. Andela focuses on sustainable careers, connecting technologists with long-term engagements, access to international roles, competitive compensation, and career coaching through the Andela Learning Community.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SmartBear Software</span> American information technology company

SmartBear Software is an American privately-held information technology company that delivers tools for application performance monitoring (APM), software development, software testing, API testing and API management. The company is based in Assembly Square in Somerville in the Greater Boston Area. The company was founded in 2009 when SmartBear, AutomatedQA and Pragmatic Software were acquired by Insight Venture Partners.

Matthew Allan Watson also known as Matt Watson, is an American entrepreneur and the current CEO of Stackify LLC, a technology company based in Leawood, Kansas. In 2003, Watson co-founded and served as CTO of VinSolutions, a developer of online CRM and lead management software for auto dealerships. In 2011, VinSolutions was sold for $135 million to AutoTrader.com. Then Watson founded Stackify in January 2012 to assist software developers in troubleshooting and support with a suite of tools including Prefix and Retrace. Watson has credited his experience at VinSolutions for the skills necessary to build Stackify. During the same period, he also launched the Watson Technology Group to support other entrepreneurs via angel investing. Watson received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer information systems at DeVry University in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Whatfix</span>

Whatfix is a SaaS based digital adoption platform which provides in-app guidance, walkthroughs and performance support for web applications and software products.

Instana is a German-American software firm based in Solingen as well as Chicago and San Francisco. It specialises in developing application performance management (APM) software.

Honeycomb is an American software company known for its eponymous observability and application performance management (APM) platform and for its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. Honeycomb's venture capital investors to date include Headline, Scale Venture Partners, and Insight Partners.

References

  1. Raletz, Alyson (14 June 2013). "NextGen Leaders: Matt Watson". Kansas City Business Journal .
  2. Arnold Arnold Tijerina (May 23, 2011). "In The Trenches During The AutoTrader Acquisition Of VinSolutions". Automotive Digital Marketing.
  3. Maheu, Pierre-Luc (22 February 2017). "Introducing Prefix and Retrace : Interview with Stackify's Founder Matt Watson". InfoQ.
  4. "The Best Business Products of 2016 - Stackify". PC Magazine . December 9, 2016.
  5. Stackify Sets Its Sights on Better App Performance Management with Developer-Friendly Software, Forbes (magazine) (May 1, 2017)
  6. "Stackify raises $2.74M". Silicon Prairie News. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  7. "Fast-growing Leawood tech company rounds up local investors for $6M raise". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-12-17.