Gremlin offers a chaos engineering platform that deliberately injects faults—storage errors, database congestion, and latency spikes—to help engineers find brittle parts of web applications. Its platform provides a sandbox that lets DevOps teams ramp errors up or down safely so they can test resilience without causing mission-critical outages. The company recently launched an Application Level Fault Injection (ALFI) feature to target application- and serverless-level components. Gremlin was founded by CEO Kolton Andrus, who designed Netflix’s failure injection service, and CTO Matthew Fornaciari, who worked with him at Amazon. Financially, Gremlin announced an $18M Series B equity round and says it will use the funding to further build out its engineering team. The company is positioning itself to reshape how developers build and test distributed and serverless systems. Gremlin offers a chaos‑engineering tool that safely injects failures (network latency, data‑center outages, resource crashes, etc.) to help engineers discover and remediate unknown faults before they cause outages. The product implements nearly a dozen attack types across Resource, Network, and State categories, with additional attacks planned and launching soon. Built-in safety and security features include multi‑factor authentication, principle of least privilege, and an "undo" button to minimize blast radius during experiments. Gremlin is offered as a subscription service with pricing based on per instance or per service. The company lists customers including Expedia, Twilio, Confluent, and Remind who use the service in production to validate defenses and reduce downtime. Financially, Gremlin has completed a Series A and earlier seed financing, bringing total capital raised to $8.75 million.

Total raised

$26M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2018