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Bigeye Watches the Data Your AI Forgot to Question
Bigeye began by catching broken tables before they reached the boardroom. Now it wants to watch the agents reading them, too - a useful expansion for enterprises, and a lot of machinery for everyone else.
Checkly
Checkly is a developer-first synthetic monitoring and reliability platform that lets engineering teams define uptime, API, and browser checks as version-controlled code. Built on Microsoft's Playwright framework and OpenTelemetry, it runs checks from 20+ global locations and layers in AI-driven root cause analysis. Founded in 2018 and headquartered with roots in Berlin, Checkly serves 1,000+ customers - including Vercel, 1Password, CrowdStrike, and Mistral - and has raised $32.25M, most recently a $20M Series B led by Balderton Capital in 2024.
Hannes Lenke
Hannes Lenke is the CEO and co-founder of Checkly, a code-first synthetic monitoring platform that helps engineering teams detect and resolve production issues faster. A serial founder in the software testing and reliability space, he earlier built TestObject, a mobile testing startup acquired by Sauce Labs in 2016, where he then ran EMEA operations. He teamed up with Tim Nolet and Timo Euteneuer to launch Checkly, popularizing the 'Monitoring as Code' approach built around Playwright and OpenTelemetry. Checkly has raised $32.25M to date, including a $20M Series B led by Balderton Capital in 2024.