Shippable offers a containerized continuous integration and delivery platform that uses Docker containers to run unit and functional tests in scalable virtual test labs. The platform can be hosted in customers’ own data centers or on public clouds, allowing development and test environments to mirror production. Shippable says its container approach makes testing faster, easier to use and cheaper, and can reduce a company’s test lab footprint by up to 70 percent. The company emphasizes automation beyond traditional CI tools like Jenkins to enable more continuous functional testing. Since launching version 2.0 in early September, Shippable has added over 20,000 users and 2,500 organizations. The company plans to use the new funding to continue its push into the enterprise market. Shippable offers a continuous integration service built on Docker that automates the workflow from development to deployment. The platform was originally built on an in-house Linux container but moved to Docker after Docker open-sourced LXC management to unify heterogeneous application environments. Shippable emphasizes speed and persistent state—retaining prior build state to avoid repeated prerequisite installs—which the company says makes it faster than VM-based CI services. The team positions the product as a bridge between older VM-based ALM solutions and a container-centric future, aiming to capture developer mind share and evolve a new application lifecycle management paradigm. Competitors named in the article include CircleCi, CloudBees, Perforce, Atlassian and Codeship, and the article notes Docker's different security requirements as a potential challenge. The company raised $2.05M in seed funding.

Total raised

$10M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2014