Attune is a San Francisco developer-tools startup (YC X25) building drop-in build acceleration for engineering teams. Its tool, invoked by prefixing existing commands with 'hurry' (e.g. 'hurry cargo build'), delivers up to 20x faster builds through incremental compilation, remote execution, and distributed caching - with zero migration and no new config language to learn. Attune started with Rust and is expanding to Docker, npm, GitHub Actions, Swift, and Python. It also maintains an open-source project for fast, secure Linux package publishing. Founded by Xin Ding (CEO) and Eliza, who worked together for three years at FOSSA on build systems.
Hans Dockter is the founder and CEO of Gradle Technologies, the company behind the Gradle build tool - downloaded over 23 million times per month - and Develocity, an enterprise developer toolchain observability platform. A German-born physicist-turned-software-engineer, he co-created Gradle in 2008 out of personal frustration with existing build systems, transforming it into one of the most widely adopted build automation tools in software development. Under his leadership, Gradle Technologies has raised $53.2M in total funding and grown to 170+ employees, serving enterprises including Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, and Airbnb.