CloudBees

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CloudBees, Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Software development
Founded2010
Headquarters San Jose, California
Key people
Anuj Kapur (CEO) [1]
Products
  • CloudBees Jenkins Platform - Enterprise Edition
Revenue$110 million [2]
Number of employees
500 (approx.) [2] [3]
Website www.cloudbees.com

CloudBees is an enterprise software delivery company. [4] [5] [6] [7] Sacha Labourey and Francois Dechery co-founded the company in early 2010, and investors include Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HSBC, Verizon Ventures, Golub Capital, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgepoint Group. [4] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

CloudBees is headquartered in San Jose, CA with additional offices in Raleigh, NC, Lewes, DE, Richmond, VA, Berlin, London, and Neuchâtel, Switzerland. [5] CloudBees' software originally included a Platform as a Service offering, which let developers use Jenkins (software) in the cloud, along with an on-premise version of Jenkins with additional functions for enterprise companies. In 2020, CloudBees also introduced a Software Delivery Automation platform. [14] [15]

History

CloudBees was founded in 2010 by Sacha Labourey and Francois Dechery. Later that year, CloudBees acquired InfraDNA, a company run by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins. [6] [8]

Since 2010, CloudBees has raised a total of over $250 million in venture financing from investors. CloudBees customers include Salesforce, Capital One, United States Air Force, [16] and HSBC. [13]

In September 2014, CloudBees stopped offering runtime PaaS services and began to focus on its enterprise Jenkins for on-premises and cloud-based continuous delivery. [5] [14] Also in 2014, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the lead developer and founder of Jenkins, became CloudBees' CTO. [8] [14]

In 2016, the company added a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its continuous delivery software. [17]

In February 2018, CloudBees acquired the cloud-based continuous delivery company Codeship. [18]

In 2019, CloudBees acquired Electric Cloud and Rollout. [19]

In 2020, Kawaguchi left his role as CTO of CloudBees to found a new company, Launchable. [20]

In 2021, CloudBees announced CloudBees Compliance, a compliance and risk analysis capability platform for software delivery. [21] CloudBees raised $150 million in a series F funding round in December 2021. [13]

In 2022, CloudBees announced the acquisition of ReleaseIQ, a SaaS-based offering, to expand the company’s DevSecOps capabilities. [22]

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