If you're building a developer tool startup, you must check these 7 companies that have joined the unicorn club.
How do unicorn startups emerge?
How are they formed?
What does it take to become one of the Unicorn startups?
These are all questions many entrepreneurs ask themselves when building their companies.
Here are 7 Developer Tools startups – Sentry and Postman included – which have become unicorns.
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an elegant, intuitive interface for creating and sharing relational databases on your own server.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$5.77
B (
November 2018
)
Country:
United States
City:
San Francisco
Started in:
2013
Founders:
Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, Howie Liu
Industries:
Collaboration, Database, Developer Tools, SaaS
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$617,600,000
Number of funding rounds:
8
Number of investors:
38
Figma is a browser-based design tool for team collaboration.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$2.00
B (
April 2020
)
Country:
United States
City:
San Francisco
Started in:
2012
Founders:
Dylan Field, Evan Wallace
Industries:
Collaboration, Developer Tools, Graphic Design, Internet, Product Design, Software, UX Design, Web Design
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$132,874,996
Number of funding rounds:
5
Number of investors:
24
Harness is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that enables engineering and DevOps teams to effortlessly deploy code into production.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$1.70
B (
January 2021
)
Country:
United States
City:
San Francisco
Started in:
2016
Founders:
Jyoti Bansal, Rishi Singh
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Delivery, Developer Tools, SaaS
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$195,000,000
Number of funding rounds:
4
Number of investors:
13
OutSystems helps enterprises have a new competitive advantage by allowing them to rapidly develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$9.50
B (
June 2018
)
Country:
United States
City:
Boston
Started in:
2001
Founders:
Paulo Rosado, Rui Pereira
Industries:
Data Integration, Developer Platform, Developer Tools, PaaS, SaaS, Software
Number of employees:
1,000-5,000
Funding Amount:
$572,081,803
Number of funding rounds:
7
Number of investors:
11
Postman is the collaboration platform for API development. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the tools you already use, Postman helps you and your team collaborate faster.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$2.00
B (
June 2020
)
Country:
United States
City:
San Francisco
Started in:
2014
Founders:
Abhijit Kane, Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti
Industries:
Developer APIs, Developer Tools, SaaS, Software
Number of employees:
250-500
Funding Amount:
$208,000,000
Number of funding rounds:
4
Number of investors:
3
Sentry provides developers and DevOps engineers with a platform that monitors application performance in real time to help them catch bugs faster than ever before.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$1.00
B (
February 2021
)
Country:
United States
City:
San Francisco
Started in:
2012
Founders:
Chris Jennings, David Cramer
Industries:
Application Performance Management, Developer Tools, Real Time, Software, Web Apps
Number of employees:
100-250
Funding Amount:
$127,000,000
Number of funding rounds:
5
Number of investors:
6
Snyk provides integrated development environment plugins and security analysis tools to identify, track and fix vulnerabilities in open source software code.
Details of the startup:
Valuation:
$4.70
B (
January 2020
)
Country:
United Kingdom
City:
Reading
Started in:
2015
Founders:
Assaf Hefetz, Danny Grander, Guy Podjarny
Industries:
Cyber Security, Developer Tools, Network Security, Software
Number of employees:
500-1,000
Funding Amount:
$752,000,000
Number of funding rounds:
8
Number of investors:
20
