# Andrew Lau

> Andrew Lau is the co-founder and CEO of Jellyfish, the Boston company that pioneered the Engineering Management Platform - software that does for engineering organizations what Salesforce did for sales. An MIT-trained engineer who spent nine years running engineering at search pioneer Endeca, Lau reconnected with two former colleagues a decade later to build a tool that translates the work of software teams into language the business actually understands. Jellyfish has raised roughly $117M, tracks 600-plus engineering organizations, and sits at the center of the industry's loudest debate: how to measure what AI is really doing to software development.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Jellyfish
- **Organizations:** Jellyfish, Nanigans, LoopIt, Endeca, Inktomi, Microsoft, IBM, Wind River, MIT
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Jellyfish into the pioneer of the Engineering Management Platform category, Raised approximately $117M in total funding from Accel, Insight Partners, Tiger Global and Wing Venture Capital, Grew Jellyfish from ~20 employees to roughly 270, more than tripling revenue in a single year during peak growth

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Program Manager at Microsoft
- **1999** — Software Engineer at Inktomi (Yahoo Search)
- **1999-2008** — VP of Engineering at Endeca (joined when it had ~8 people; met future co-founders Phil Braden and Dave Gourley)
- **2009** — Founded LoopIt, a social retail-tech startup (later acquired)
- **2012** — Chief Strategy Officer at ad-tech company Nanigans following LoopIt acquisition
- **2017** — Co-founded Jellyfish with Phil Braden and Dave Gourley
- **2021** — Jellyfish raises $31.5M Series B
- **2022** — Jellyfish raises $71M Series C led by Accel, Insight Partners and Tiger Global
- **2025** — Jellyfish publishes State of Engineering Management report focused on AI's impact; partners with OpenAI on developer-adoption research

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Jellyfish into the pioneer of the Engineering Management Platform category
- Raised approximately $117M in total funding from Accel, Insight Partners, Tiger Global and Wing Venture Capital
- Grew Jellyfish from ~20 employees to roughly 270, more than tripling revenue in a single year during peak growth
- Built a measurement layer tracking 600+ engineering organizations
- Part of the 'Endeca mafia' of influential alumni who founded and led ventures
- Frequent speaker and author on engineering leadership (InfoQ, ELC, The Enterprisers Project)

## Latest updates

- **2026** — Featured in McKinsey interview on measuring AI's impact in software development, citing Jellyfish data that 60%+ of tracked organizations see at least a 25% productivity improvement from AI.
- **2025** — Jellyfish released its State of Engineering Management report centered on engineering in the age of AI; research with OpenAI showed orgs with 80-100% developer adoption saw gains over 110%.

## Links

- Website: https://jellyfish.co
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amlau
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn561YGiskl9hwLW2ff1xfgs1kp66OIoG

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Last updated: 2026-06-04