Gradle provides a build and test performance acceleration technology and analytics platform designed to improve developer productivity and the reliability of the developer toolchain. Key components of the Gradle Enterprise solution include build and test acceleration (for both local and CI builds) and analytics to make failure troubleshooting more efficient. The platform supports a growing number of build and test technologies including Gradle, Apache Maven, Android, JUnit and soon Bazel, plus test frameworks for Python and JavaScript such as Pytest, Jasmine and Cypress. Elite development teams at ASML, eBay, Fitbit, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pinterest, Salesforce, Square and Twitter use Gradle Enterprise to deliver quality software at scale. Gradle is also the company behind the open-source Gradle Build Tool, which is downloaded over 25 million times a month. Led by co-founder and CEO Hans Dockter and based in San Francisco, the company recently completed a new financing round and is investing in product and international customer support. Gradle commercializes the open-source Gradle build system, which automates dependency checks and coordinates complex software builds. The company plans to launch Gradle.com as a SaaS offering that will track and diagnose open-source Gradle instances. Gradle has been downloaded 10 million times and is used by millions of developers and companies including Netflix, LinkedIn, Siemens and Google Android. At the time of the article the company had about 100 paying customers for support and services and 35 employees, with plans to at least double headcount in 2016. Founder and CEO Hans Dockter moved the company from Berlin to the Bay Area to build out the commercial business. The company intends to continue developing the open-source product while scaling its commercial offerings.

Total raised

$31M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Nov 2021