LaunchDarkly offers a feature management platform that lets software development and DevOps teams release, control, and target features using feature flags and on/off toggles across platforms. The platform standardizes safe releases at large scale, giving teams tight control over access and deployment across the development and operations pipeline. LaunchDarkly serves more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including IBM, GoDaddy, SAP, and Square. With the $200 million Series D, the company plans to expand its core platform, accelerate customer acquisition, grow globally, and hire additional engineers. It also intends to integrate with more services such as ServiceNow, Atlassian, Zendesk, and Salesforce. The Series D provides capital to scale product development and go-to-market efforts. LaunchDarkly productizes feature flagging, providing a dashboard and SDKs that let teams perform canary launches, target features to specific users or regions, and toggle functionality across 20+ languages and platforms. The platform integrates with tools like Slack, GitHub and New Relic to fit into customer workflows and reduce the need for in-house solutions. Customers include developers, product managers, marketers and sales teams who use the service to control launches and rollbacks without deploying code changes. The company reports about 1,000 customers worldwide, very high net retention and a high Net Promoter Score. LaunchDarkly has roughly 160 employees and is headquartered in Oakland, with plans to open offices in London and Sydney. The business recently raised additional funding that brought its total funding to $130 million, which it plans to use to invest in product development and expand its sales team. LaunchDarkly is an Oakland, CA–based feature management platform that product development teams use to control feature lifecycles, eliminate risk from deployment processes, and increase efficiency throughout development cycles. The company is led by co‑founders Edith Harbaugh (CEO) and John Kodumal (CTO) and launched in 2014. It serves more than 700 customers globally, including Microsoft, BMW, IBM, and RyanAir. LaunchDarkly raised $44M in a Series C round and has received a total of $76M in funding to date. The company intends to use the new funds to further scale and expand adoption of its platform. The platform is positioned to help teams manage feature rollouts and improve efficiency across development cycles. LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables software teams to control the full feature lifecycle from concept to launch and value. The platform serves over 10 billion feature flags daily and offers SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. Led by CEO Edith Harbaugh, the company focuses on helping teams build better software through controlled rollouts and feature experimentation. The company said it will use new funding to accelerate growth in engineering, customer success, and category education. LaunchDarkly is headquartered in Oakland, CA. LaunchDarkly provides a feature flag management platform that lets development teams separate feature rollout from code deployment, perform percentage rollouts, and target users granularly to reduce risk and manage subscriptions or microservices. The platform includes a suite of feature-flag management tools and offers web and mobile SDKs across languages including .NET, PHP, Python, NodeJS, Java, JavaScript, Ruby/Rails, Go, iOS and Android. Co-founded by Edith Harbaugh (CEO) and John Kodumal (CTO), the company serves billions of flags daily for customers such as AppDirect, CircleCI, Lanetix and Upserve. LaunchDarkly intends to use new funding to hire engineers and continue building the platform. The company is based in San Francisco.

Total raised

$330M

Funding rounds

6

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Sep 2021