# Pivotal

> Pivotal Software was a San Francisco enterprise software company combining the Pivotal Cloud Foundry application platform with Pivotal Labs consulting. It helped large organizations deploy software more often and teach their own teams modern product practices. VMware acquired it in 2019; its platform and Labs lineage continue within Tanzu.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** EMC Corporation (corporate founder and spinout parent), VMware (corporate founder and spinout parent)
- **Products:** Pivotal Cloud Foundry / Pivotal Application Service, Pivotal Labs, Pivotal Greenplum, Pivotal GemFire, Pivotal Tracker
- **Notable:** Reported $657.5 million in fiscal 2019 revenue, including $400.9 million in subscription revenue., Reported 377 platform subscription customers paying at least $50,000 annually as of February 1, 2019., Comcast reported about 2,000 developers and 20,000 apps on Pivotal Cloud Foundry in 2017.

## Products & services

- **Pivotal Cloud Foundry / Pivotal Application Service** — Commercial Cloud Foundry platform for deploying and operating enterprise applications across infrastructure environments.
- **Pivotal Labs** — Hands-on product design and software development consulting centered on pairing, small releases, and teaching client teams.
- **Pivotal Greenplum** — Massively parallel analytics database and data warehouse technology.
- **Pivotal GemFire** — Distributed in-memory data management and caching platform.
- **Pivotal Tracker** — Agile project management tool that originated in Pivotal Labs.
- **BOSH** — Open-source deployment and lifecycle management tool used with Cloud Foundry.

## Achievements

- Reported $657.5 million in fiscal 2019 revenue, including $400.9 million in subscription revenue.
- Reported 377 platform subscription customers paying at least $50,000 annually as of February 1, 2019.
- Comcast reported about 2,000 developers and 20,000 apps on Pivotal Cloud Foundry in 2017.
- Completed an IPO in April 2018.

## Latest updates

- **2019-12** — VMware completed the acquisition; Pivotal became a wholly owned subsidiary.
- **2024-08** — Broadcom introduced VMware Tanzu Platform 10, building on Cloud Foundry’s approach to application delivery.
- **2026-09** — Broadcom documentation identifies Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry as the successor naming for Tanzu Application Service and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

## Links

- Website: https://pivotal.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivotal-software-inc.
- GitHub: https://github.com/pivotal

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