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Appfire Killed Its Side Projects - Then Built a $200M Software Shelf
The company spent 12 years mixing software with services. Then it made one sharp bet on marketplace apps, raised $149 million, and turned the missing pieces inside Jira into a profitable portfolio with more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue.
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.
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.