HashiCorp

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HashiCorp, Inc.
Type Public
Industry IT infrastructure
Founded2012
Founders
  • Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Armon Dadgar
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Area served
Global
Key people
David McJannet (CEO)
Revenue$475.9 million [1] : 23  (2023)
$274 million [1] : 40  (2023)
Number of employees
2,400+ [2]  (2023)
Website hashicorp.com/

HashiCorp is a software company [3] with a freemium business model based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides tools and products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and connect cloud-computing infrastructure. [4] It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. [5] [6]

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HashiCorp is headquartered in San Francisco, but their employees are distributed across the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Europe. HashiCorp offers source-available libraries and other proprietary products. [7] [8]

History

Founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto HashiCorp Founders.png
Founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar

HashiCorp was founded in 2012 by two classmates from the University of Washington, Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. [9] Cofounder Hashimoto was previously working on open-source software called Vagrant, which became incorporated into HashiCorp. [10] The cofounders also developed several other open-source projects besides HashiCorp. [11] By 2018, HashiCorp's open-source software tools had been downloaded 45 million times. [12]

HashiCorp raised $349.2 million in venture capital investments over five funding rounds. [13] This included a $100 million investment in 2018 that valued the business at $1.9 billion, [14] and a $175 million 2020 investment in its fifth funding round valuing HashiCorp at $5.1 billion. [13] [15] According to the company, it was growing quickly, doubling its sales each year for four years. [15] It grew 75% in 2021 compared to the prior year. [16]

On 29 November 2021, HashiCorp set terms for its IPO at 15.3 million shares at $68-$72 at a valuation of $13 billion. [17] It offered 15.3 million shares. [13] By this time, the company had 2,392 customers, but was not yet profitable. [16] [18] HashiCorp considers its workers to be remote workers first rather than coming into an office on a full-time basis. [19]

Products

HashiCorp provides a suite of tools intended to support the development and deployment of large-scale service-oriented software installations. Each tool is aimed at specific stages in the life cycle of a software application, with a focus on automation. Many have a plugin-oriented architecture in order to provide integration with third-party technologies and services. [20] Additional proprietary features for some of these tools are offered commercially and are aimed at enterprise customers. [21]

The main product line consists of the following tools: [4] [20]

Security issue

Around April 2021, a supply chain attack using code auditing tool codecov allowed hackers limited access to HashiCorp's customers networks. [34] As a result, private credentials were leaked. HashiCorp revoked a private signing key and asked its customers to use a new rotated key.

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References

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  2. ↑ "Annual 10k". HashiCorp. 2023.
  3. ↑ Warren, Justin (23 February 2017). "Jay Fry Leaves New Relic To Head HashiCorp Marketing". Forbes.
  4. 1 2 Lardinois, Frederic (7 September 2016). "HashiCorp raises $24M for its DevOps infrastructure software". TechCrunch.
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  7. ↑ Fay, Joe (8 September 2016). "HashiCorp pulls in $24m to build out DevOps infrastructure portfolio". The Register.
  8. ↑ Dadgar, Armon. "HashiCorp adopts Business Source License". HashiCorp. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  9. ↑ Wang, Echo (December 8, 2021). "Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO - source". Reuters. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  10. ↑ Braunton, A. (2018). Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant: Implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant. Packt Publishing. p. 8. ISBN   978-1-78913-678-4 . Retrieved May 23, 2023.
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  12. ↑ Miller, Ron (November 1, 2018). "HashiCorp scores $100M investment on $1.9 billion valuation". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  13. 1 2 3 Donovan, Kevin (November 30, 2021). "HashiCorp (HCP) launches IPO at $68-$72 to raise $1.10bn". Capital.com. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  14. ↑ Schlosser, Kurt (May 1, 2019). "Young founder of cloud unicorn HashiCorp giving back to Univ. of Washington with millions in scholarship aid". GeekWire. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  15. 1 2 Crichton, Danny (March 17, 2020). "HashiCorp soars above $5B valuation in new $175M venture round". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  16. 1 2 "HashiCorp IPO Could Value Startup at $13B". CFO. November 30, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
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  20. 1 2 3 Ward, Chris (20 June 2017). "HashiCorp Tools Useful for Continuous Integration". Codeship Blog.
  21. 1 2 "HashiCorp Announces the General Availability of Vault Enterprise for DevOps Security Across Dynamic Infrastructure". 7 September 2016.
  22. ↑ "Release v0.1.0 · hashicorp/Vagrant". GitHub .
  23. ↑ "Release v0.1.0 · hashicorp/Packer". GitHub .
  24. ↑ "HashiCorp Packer 1.0".
  25. ↑ "HashiCorp Consul".
  26. ↑ "Vault/CHANGELOG.md at master · hashicorp/Vault". GitHub . April 2022.
  27. ↑ "HashiCorp Nomad".
  28. ↑ "Home". serf.io.
  29. ↑ "Announcing Sentinel, HashiCorp's Policy as Code Framework".
  30. ↑ "HashiCorp Sentinel - wikieduonline".
  31. ↑ "HashiCorp Sentinel framework".
  32. ↑ "Announcing HashiCorp Boundary".
  33. ↑ "Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint".
  34. ↑ "HashiCorp revoked private key exposed in Codecov security breach". VentureBeat. 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
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