Honeycomb is a San Francisco–based provider of an observability platform used by engineering teams to investigate cloud application behavior. Led by CEO Christine Yen, the product helps teams quickly understand what their code does for real users in unpredictable, complex cloud environments. Customers include HelloFresh, Stripe, Slack, Fender, Vanguard, and LaunchDarkly. The company raised $50M in a Series D round, bringing total funding to $150M. Honeycomb intends to use the funds to accelerate geographic expansion, support and contribute to OpenTelemetry, and build a cohesive integration strategy across the software development ecosystem. Kelly Watkins, former VP of Global Marketing at Slack and CEO of Abstract, joined Honeycomb's board of directors as part of the round. Honeycomb provides a software observability platform that helps developers and SREs understand, debug, and optimize production cloud applications and microservices. The platform is used by teams at companies such as Stripe, Slack, Heroku, and LaunchDarkly. Honeycomb ships features like BubbleUp, an analytical engine built on a proprietary datastore that surfaces hidden outliers, and integrates with AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Its tooling emphasizes exploratory analysis over aggregate APM metrics to speed investigations and surface where engineers should look for problems. Founded in San Francisco in 2016, Honeycomb positions itself for modern cloud-native architectures and continuous troubleshooting. Financially, the company raised a $50M Series C and had previously raised around $47M; it says the new funding will support expansion into Europe, including building a dedicated European team. Honeycomb is a San Francisco-based provider of cloud observability for distributed systems, led by CEO Christine Yen. Its platform enables modern development teams to learn, debug, and improve production systems so business-critical apps perform with minimal disruption to users. Customers use the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle. The company currently serves more than 300 customers. Honeycomb intends to use the new funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach. The company has raised a total of $46.9m to date. Honeycomb provides observability solutions for modern Engineering and DevOps teams to observe, debug, and improve production systems. The company was co-founded by Charity Majors and Christine Yen in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, CA. Customers include Intercom, Optimizely, Shipt, Meetup, and Fender. Honeycomb closed an $11.4M funding round that brought its total funding to $26.9M. The company intends to use the funds to grow teams across all business functions, particularly sales, marketing, and customer success. As part of the round, Ariel Tseitlin from Scale Venture Partners will join Honeycomb’s Board of Directors. Honeycomb is an observability provider for software engineers based in San Francisco, CA. Co-founded by Charity Majors (CEO) and Christine Yen (CPO), the company enables engineers to create and analyze data about the behavior of their software. Its tooling lets users move from visualizing aggregate trends to pinpointing exact problems such as a stalled shopping cart, a query starving a system, or a problematic user. Customers include Fender, Axios, Intercom and Travis CI. Honeycomb raised an $11.5M Series A, bringing total funding to $15.5M. The company intends to use the funds to expand sales and marketing and deepen R&D activities.

Total raised

$147M

Funding rounds

6

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Apr 2023