Sensu develops open-source software for monitoring critical applications and enterprise infrastructure, maintaining the free Sensu Core framework alongside the commercially supported Sensu Enterprise. The company was founded in 2017 and is led by CEO Caleb Hailey. Sensu operates as a fully distributed team with 20 employees across the United States and Canada and plans to open its first office in Portland, Oregon. The commercial product enhances the open-source framework with features for operations, governance, and multi-datacenter support to run monitoring at scale. Sensu will use the new funding to grow sales and marketing, fund product development, and expand its community of open-source contributors. The company aims to scale both its commercial offerings and its contributor ecosystem with this capital. Sensu began as an open source project more than five years ago (previously known as Heavy Water) and was developed into a startup by co-founders Caleb Hailey and Sean Porter. The company offers monitoring software that tracks cloud-based computer networks, servers, services, application health, and business KPIs. Sensu's idea originated while the founders were replacing an aging Nagios installation at Sonian. The company is led by CEO Caleb Hailey and is based in Portland. Sensu recently raised a $2.5M seed round led by Foundry Group with participation from angel investors including Matt Shobe. The startup plans to use the funding to grow its seven-person team, and Foundry's lead investment is presented as validation given its prior investments in Portland cloud companies like Urban Airship and Cloudability.

Total raised

$13M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Apr 2018