# Matthew Arbesfeld

> Matthew Arbesfeld is the CEO and co-founder of LogRocket, the Boston-based frontend monitoring and product analytics company he built with his lifelong best friend Ben Edelstein. The two met as one-month-old infants on a parental playdate and have been building software together ever since. A Thiel Fellow who dropped out of MIT in 2015, Arbesfeld first launched a developer deployment tool called AppHub before pivoting to LogRocket, the 'DVR for bugs' that lets engineering teams replay exactly what users did before something broke. LogRocket has raised about $55 million total, monitors billions of user sessions, and in 2026 launched Ask Galileo, an AI layer that answers plain-English questions about user experience.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at LogRocket
- **Organizations:** LogRocket, AppHub, Google, Meteor Development Group, Clara Labs, Thiel Fellowship
- **From:** Boston area, Massachusetts, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (left to pursue Thiel Fellowship), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads LogRocket, used by teams at CARFAX, AOL, SoundCloud, NBC, Refinery29 and UserTesting, Named a Thiel Fellow (2015/2016 cohort), Implemented the createImageBitmap JavaScript API for Chrome while at Google

## Career timeline

- **2014** — Interns on the Chrome Engineering team at Google, where he implements the createImageBitmap JavaScript API
- **2015** — Receives Rough Draft Ventures funding and is accepted to the Thiel Fellowship; drops out of MIT to build AppHub full time
- **2016** — Co-founds LogRocket with childhood best friend Ben Edelstein after pivoting from AppHub
- **2019** — LogRocket announces an $11M Series A
- **2020** — Company grows through the pandemic as remote teams lean on session replay and monitoring
- **2022** — Raises $25M Series C co-led by Delta-V Capital and Battery Ventures; launches Conditional Recording
- **2023** — Introduces Galileo, LogRocket's machine learning layer for surfacing user issues
- **2026** — Launches Ask Galileo, an AI chat that answers any question about user experience in seconds

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads LogRocket, used by teams at CARFAX, AOL, SoundCloud, NBC, Refinery29 and UserTesting
- Named a Thiel Fellow (2015/2016 cohort)
- Implemented the createImageBitmap JavaScript API for Chrome while at Google
- Increased trial-to-paid conversion rate by 200% in three months at Clara Labs
- Raised roughly $55M total across LogRocket's funding rounds, including a $25M Series C in 2022
- Built LogRocket to monitor billions of user sessions and hundreds of billions of interactions per year

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — LogRocket launched Ask Galileo, an AI-powered chat that unifies session replays, support tickets and product data to answer questions about user experience in seconds.
- **2022-06** — LogRocket raised a $25M Series C co-led by Delta-V Capital and Battery Ventures and launched Conditional Recording.

## Links

- Website: https://logrocket.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-arbesfeld-04b5429b/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/m_arbesfeld
- GitHub: https://github.com/arbesfeld

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Last updated: 2026-06-03