# Foxglove

> Foxglove is a San Francisco company building a data and observability platform for robotics and Physical AI. Its tools let engineers record, sync, search, and visualize the multimodal sensor data their robots produce - 3D point clouds, video, GNSS, and proprioceptive streams - so teams can debug and improve autonomous systems without building expensive in-house infrastructure. Founded in 2021 by two Cruise and Coinbase veterans, Foxglove maintains the open-source MCAP file format (now the default recording format in ROS 2) and counts NVIDIA, Amazon, Anduril, Wayve, and Waabi among its users.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Adrian MacNeil (Co-founder & CEO), Roman Shtylman (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~91 employees
- **Products:** Foxglove (visualization & data platform), MCAP, Foxglove Studio
- **Notable:** Created MCAP and got it adopted as the default ROS 2 bag format, Raised $62M+ in total funding across seed, Series A, and Series B, Trusted by tens of thousands of developers including NVIDIA, Amazon, and Anduril

## Products & services

- **Foxglove (visualization & data platform)** — A data engine for Physical AI that lets teams record logs at the edge, sync recordings to cloud or on-prem storage, search across petabyte-scale multimodal data, and evaluate robot performance with 3D frame-by-frame visualization. Offers 20+ out-of-the-box panels and customizable layouts.
- **MCAP** — Open-source, self-describing container file format for heterogeneous, timestamped robotics data. Supports ROS, JSON, and Protobuf with embedded schemas, LZ4/Zstandard compression, and reader/writer libraries in C++, Go, Python, Rust, Swift, and TypeScript. Became the default ROS 2 bag format starting with the Iron release.
- **Foxglove Studio** — Visualization application supporting MCAP, ROS 1, ROS 2, and custom formats via an encoding-agnostic WebSocket connection or local/remote files.

## Achievements

- Created MCAP and got it adopted as the default ROS 2 bag format
- Raised $62M+ in total funding across seed, Series A, and Series B
- Trusted by tens of thousands of developers including NVIDIA, Amazon, and Anduril
- Achieved SOC 2 certification
- Named to The Robot Report's RBR50 Robotics Innovation list for standardizing robotics data recording

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Raised $40M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners to scale its data platform and support the full data lifecycle for Physical AI.
- **2022-10** — Raised $15M Series A to build developer infrastructure for robots.

## Links

- Website: https://foxglove.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/foxglovedev
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/foxglovedev
- GitHub: https://github.com/foxglove
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@foxglovedev

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