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Parity built the machinery. Now comes the human part.
The engineers behind Polkadot spent a decade making blockchains work together. Their next test is whether people can use the result without needing a blockchain education.
GitKraken Made Git Visual. Now It Wants to Manage the AI Agents Making a Mess of It
A 30-day experiment became a visual Git client, then a 40-million-developer platform. Its next trick is less glamorous and more useful: keeping AI-written branches from colliding before humans can review them.
DX Made Developer Productivity Measurable - Then Atlassian Paid $1 Billion
DX built a business around a deceptively hard question: what actually helps software teams do better work? Its answer mixes machine data, human experience and enough research discipline to make a dashboard useful without turning it into a surveillance panel.
ReadMe
How a one-person side project with an owl mascot became the documentation layer for NVIDIA, Amazon, and thousands of other API companies - and why it stayed profitable while barely raising money.
Code Climate
Code Climate is a New York-based software engineering intelligence company founded in 2011. It began with automated code review and quality analysis, grew into Velocity - an analytics platform that gives engineering leaders visibility into delivery, DORA metrics and team health - and has since repositioned around helping enterprise leaders measure and manage AI-native engineering transformation, pairing a data platform with Forward Deployed Engineers.
Qovery
Qovery is an internal developer platform and agentic Kubernetes management solution that lets engineering teams deploy and run production-grade infrastructure inside their own cloud accounts. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York with a remote team, it layers a Heroku-like developer experience on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and Scaleway - automating environment provisioning, ephemeral pull-request environments, and day-2 Kubernetes operations so developers can ship without becoming DevOps experts. The company raised a $13M Series A in 2025 and is used by tens of thousands of developers across more than 100 countries.
Faros AI
Faros AI is an AI-native engineering intelligence platform that pulls data from the tools software teams already use - GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, incident systems and more - and turns it into a single view of how engineering work actually flows. Founded by the ex-Salesforce team that built Einstein, Faros helps engineering leaders measure DORA metrics, track delivery, quantify the ROI of AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, and automate R&D cost capitalization across the full software development lifecycle.
Sleuth
Sleuth is a San Francisco software company founded by former Atlassian engineers who helped build Jira and Bitbucket. It began as a 'mission control' platform for continuous delivery, giving engineering teams automated DORA metrics and deployment tracking, then expanded into governing AI inside organizations. Its current product, Sleuth Skills, lets companies define agent skills, rules, prompts and MCP servers once and distribute them - with approval workflows, audit trails and access controls - across AI clients like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini and Codex. Sleuth has raised roughly $25M, including a $22M Series A led by Felicis in 2022.
Speakeasy
Speakeasy is a San Francisco developer-infrastructure company that turns an OpenAPI specification into production-grade, type-safe SDKs across ten-plus languages, then keeps them in sync automatically as the API changes. Founded in 2022 by Sagar Batchu and Simon Yu, it has expanded from SDK and Terraform-provider generation into an AI control plane for the Model Context Protocol - products like Gram and the MCP Gateway let companies expose their APIs as governed tools for AI agents. Speakeasy has raised roughly $26 million, including a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures in 2024, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, Clerk, Kong, Fivetran, Airbyte, and SolarWinds among its customers.
Trunk
Trunk is a San Francisco developer-tools company building a suite that keeps continuous integration reliable at scale. Its two flagship products - a parallel Merge Queue that batches and tests many pull requests at once, and Flaky Tests, which automatically detects and quarantines unreliable tests - target the bottlenecks that slow engineering teams as they ship more code, increasingly with AI assistance. Founded in 2021 by ex-Uber and ex-Google engineers, Trunk raised a $25M Series A led by Initialized Capital in 2022 and counts Brex, Faire, Zillow, and Gusto among its users.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish is a Boston-based Engineering Management Platform that turns the signals from engineering tools - Git, Jira, CI/CD, and now AI coding assistants - into business-readable insight. It helps engineering leaders see where their teams spend time, tie that work to company strategy, automate R&D cost capitalization, and measure the real ROI of tools like GitHub Copilot. Founded by veterans of Endeca, Jellyfish has raised roughly $117M and serves hundreds of enterprises including Mastercard, Priceline, and PagerDuty.