SignalFx, founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, CA, provides a real-time cloud monitoring and observability platform that collects and analyzes metrics and traces across every component in cloud environments. Its system is built on a massively scalable streaming architecture and applies advanced analytics and data-science-directed troubleshooting to help operators find root causes in seconds. In November 2018 the company added Microservices APM™, a real-time application performance monitoring solution powered by a NoSample™ architecture that observes every transaction. In February SignalFx opened a Research and Development Support Office in Krakow and expanded sales operations across EMEA and Australia; it intends further global expansion. The company has about 270 employees and serves customers including Acquia, HubSpot, Kayak, Square, Yelp, NBCUniversal and others. Management is led by CEO Karthik Rau and the company is backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and General Catalyst. SignalFx provides a platform delivering a consolidated real-time view of infrastructure, services, applications, containers, and functions to brands across multiple industry verticals. Its architecture is optimized for container and microservices-based environments and discovers and collects metrics across every component in the cloud, providing real-time visibility into dynamic environments. The platform offers visualization, proactive alerting, and collaborative triage capabilities for organizations of all sizes. Customers include athenahealth, Ellie Mae, HubSpot, Kayak, Shutterfly, Square, and Yelp. Led by CEO and co-founder Karthik Rau, the company intends to use the funds to accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts. Since its founding in 2013 the company has raised $103.5m in total funding. SignalFx provides a SaaS-based monitoring platform powered by streaming and historical analytics that gives an interactive, system-wide view of application and infrastructure data at any scale. Its tools enable development and operations teams to shift from component-level monitoring to detecting aggregate patterns and anomalies across distributed applications in real time. Product teams can model and correlate key application and business metrics against underlying infrastructure behavior to answer critical operational questions. The platform is used by companies including Yelp, Tapjoy, Symphony Commerce and Chairish. The company was co-founded by CEO Karthik Rau and CTO Phillip Liu and is based in San Mateo, Calif. SignalFx raised a $20M Series B and has now raised $28.5M in total; it plans to use the capital to expand sales and marketing and accelerate R&D. SignalFuse is a stealth-mode software company based in downtown San Mateo, CA. It was co-founded by CEO Karthik Rau (formerly product and marketing executive at VMware) and CTO Phillip Liu (formerly a software architect at Facebook). The company’s website describes work on distributed systems, data science and statistics, and simple, elegant user interfaces, and says it aims to build software that will be used by millions. A regulatory filing with the S.E.C. shows SignalFuse raised $8.24M in seed funding; the company’s site confirms the funding and states it raised $8M from Andreessen Horowitz. The filing names Ben Horowitz, founder of Andreessen Horowitz, as an investor among five other undisclosed backers. The site also advertises hiring world-class engineers to work on these technical areas.

Total raised

$148M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series E

Latest activity

Jun 2019