# Gradle Technologies

> Gradle Technologies (Gradle Inc.) is the company behind the open-source Gradle Build Tool - one of the world's most widely used build systems - and Develocity, the commercial Developer Productivity Engineering platform used by Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix and many others to accelerate builds, troubleshoot failures, and tame flaky tests at scale.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Hans Dockter (Founder & CEO), Adam Murdoch (Co-founder & Chief Architect)
- **Team size:** ~170
- **Products:** Gradle Build Tool, Develocity, Build Scan, DPE University & DPE Summit
- **Notable:** Gradle Build Tool downloaded 30M+ times per month, Default build tool for Android (shipped with Android Studio), Coined and popularized the 'Developer Productivity Engineering' category

## Products & services

- **Gradle Build Tool** — Open-source build automation tool used for JVM, Android, Kotlin, native and polyglot projects. Downloaded over 30 million times a month.
- **Develocity** — Commercial DPE platform (formerly Gradle Enterprise) providing build & test acceleration, distributed caching, predictive test selection, test distribution, and failure analytics across Gradle, Maven, Bazel and sbt.
- **Build Scan** — A shareable, deep-link report of any build that reveals timings, dependencies, failures, and performance hotspots.
- **DPE University & DPE Summit** — Free training, certifications, and an annual conference series for the Developer Productivity Engineering community.

## Achievements

- Gradle Build Tool downloaded 30M+ times per month
- Default build tool for Android (shipped with Android Studio)
- Coined and popularized the 'Developer Productivity Engineering' category
- $53.2M total raised across Seed - Series C
- Annual DPE Summit with keynotes from Google, Meta and DX

## Latest updates

- **2023-09** — Renamed Gradle Enterprise to Develocity.
- **2024-05** — Announced global DPE event series.
- **2024-08** — Hosted 3rd annual DPE Summit with keynotes from Google, Meta and DX.
- **2021-11** — Closed $27M Series C led by Triangle Peak Partners.

## Links

- Website: https://gradle.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gradle
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/gradle
- GitHub: https://github.com/gradle/gradle
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GradleInc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/gradleinc/

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