| Type | Start-up [1] |
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| Founded | April 2015 in Solingen, Germany |
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| Website | www |
Instana is a German-American software firm [2] based in Solingen [1] as well as Chicago and San Francisco. [3] [4] It specialises in developing application performance management (APM) software. [5] [6]
Instana's software is intended particularly for use in monitoring and managing the performance of software used in microservice architectures, [7] and permits 3D visualisation of performance [8] through graphs generated using machine learning algorithms, with notifications regarding performance also generated automatically. [9] Instana's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool of the same name is especially purposed for monitoring software used in so-called "container orchestration" (a modular method of providing a software service). [10]
The firm was founded in April 2015 [9] by Mirko Novakovic, Pete Abrams, Fabian Lange, and Pavlo Baron [5] as a spin-off of Codecentric (which was founded in 2005). [2]
By December 2017, it had received a total of $26 million from investors, [11] and by October 2018, this had risen to a total of $57 million. [12] However this investment came primarily from outside Germany. [13] $20 million of this funding was raised in the series B round led by Accel Partners [14] whilst $30 million of this total was raised in the series C round led by Meritech Capital Partners. [6] [1] [4] In February 2019 the company employed more than 100 employees in different sites around Solingen, [15] including in the suburb of Ohligs. [16]
In November 2020, IBM, as part of continuing investments in big data and AIs, announced an agreement to acquire Instana [17]
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