CloudBees provides a software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling continuous integration, continuous delivery, release orchestration, feature management, analytics, and continuous compliance. The company has expanded its product portfolio through new product launches and acquisitions including CodeShip, Electric Cloud, Rollout, and Neuralprints. CloudBees serves large customers—21 customers with annual recurring revenue greater than $1 million; 41% of its customers have annual revenue above $1 billion and 26% have more than 10,000 employees. Headcount has grown roughly 70% to more than 500 employees. The new capital will be used to accelerate product innovation, recruit and develop talent, expand in markets like Asia Pacific, and broaden global and regional partnerships. CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, Calif. CloudBees offers an end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM) that builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to accelerate development and delivery while minimizing risk. The company is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X and provides CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) capabilities. CloudBees serves over 3,500 well-known brands, 46 of the Fortune 100, and the article cites an estimated 15+ million developers using Jenkins; over 50% of the Fortune 500 invest in CloudBees. Management says it will use the new funding to bring innovation to its modern software delivery suite, grow strategic partnerships, and accelerate global growth organically and through M&A. The company positions itself as powering the continuous economy for both startups and large enterprises. CloudBees was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. CloudBees builds on the open-source Jenkins automation server as the core of its product lineup, extending Jenkins with enterprise features and offering training and certification. The company recently acquired Codeship, adding a hosted continuous integration and delivery platform that is less tightly coupled to Jenkins. CloudBees bundles these offerings into enterprise products and services for large organizations. Its customers include 46 of the Fortune 100 and three of the Fortune 10, indicating significant enterprise traction. Management frames the DevOps market as rapidly expanding and views continuous software delivery as a strategic imperative for businesses. The company is using funding to buy smaller players and expand quickly to gain market share in a competitive DevOps landscape. CloudBees offers Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions that enable enterprises to scale CI/CD on-premise and in the cloud. The company positions itself as the Enterprise Jenkins Company and says its platform meets enterprise requirements for security, scalability, and manageability. CloudBees has seen significant growth in enterprise uptake of Jenkins and counts global brands such as Amadeus, 3M, Intuit, Fidelity, Disney, Verizon, Cisco and T-Mobile among its subscribers. The company plans to use new funding to invest in development, marketing, sales, professional services, strategic partnerships and to introduce new products for a broader range of customers. CloudBees shifted in 2014 to focus solely on Jenkins-powered continuous delivery and is leveraging that strategic pivot to capture market share. Total external investment in the company is just under $50 million since inception in 2010. CloudBees is a Java-centric enterprise PaaS that allows developers to build and test applications on its platform. The service focuses on Java and supports virtually all JVM-based languages, including Spring, JRuby, Grails, Scala and Groovy. Developers use Jenkins on CloudBees to track code changes in Git and SVN repositories and to trigger builds with Maven, Gradle and Ant. The company, founded in 2010, has raised a total of $25.7 million to date, including a recently announced $11.2M Series C. CloudBees plans to use the new funds to drive revenue growth by expanding its feature set, growing its global sales footprint and extending the CloudBees brand. It previously partnered with Verizon to make its services available on the Verizon Cloud.

Total raised

$341M

Funding rounds

8

Latest round

Debt Financing

Latest activity

Dec 2021