# LaunchDarkly

> LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that lets software teams release, target, and measure code changes behind feature flags. Founded in 2014 in Oakland by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, the company turned the homegrown 'if/else' toggle into an enterprise control plane used by more than 2,000 customers including Atlassian, IBM, Square, NBC, and Ryanair.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Oakland, California, United States
- **Founders:** Edith Harbaugh (Co-founder, former CEO), John Kodumal (Co-founder, CTO)
- **Team size:** ~540 employees
- **Products:** Feature Flags, Experimentation, Guarded Releases, AI Configs, Product Analytics
- **Notable:** Reached $3B valuation in 2021 with $200M Series D led by Lead Edge Capital., Acquired Highlight.io in April 2025 to bring session replay and telemetry into the release platform., Crossed 2,000 paying customers and 540 employees by 2025.

## Products & services

- **Feature Flags** — Wrap any code change in a flag and target it to users, segments, environments, or percentages in real time.
- **Experimentation** — Run multi-variant A/B tests tied directly to flags, with warehouse-native metrics from Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift.
- **Guarded Releases** — Progressive rollouts wired to live monitoring and automated rollback when a regression appears.
- **AI Configs** — A control plane for prompts and model selection so AI features can be tuned in production without redeploying.
- **Product Analytics** — Behavior and adoption analytics tied to flag-level rollouts, added after the Highlight acquisition.
- **SDKs** — More than 25 server, client, mobile, and edge SDKs handling trillions of flag evaluations a day.

## Achievements

- Reached $3B valuation in 2021 with $200M Series D led by Lead Edge Capital.
- Acquired Highlight.io in April 2025 to bring session replay and telemetry into the release platform.
- Crossed 2,000 paying customers and 540 employees by 2025.
- Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Feature Management (2024).
- Serves trillions of feature flag evaluations per day.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Launched Release Observability, AI Configs GA, and warehouse-native Product Analytics at Galaxy 2025.
- **2025-04** — Acquired Highlight.io to fold session replay, error monitoring, and telemetry into Guarded Releases.
- **2024-11** — Introduced Guarded Releases pairing progressive rollouts with automated rollback.
- **2021-08** — Raised $200M Series D at a $3B valuation led by Lead Edge Capital.

## Links

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

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Last updated: 2026-05-28