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Acquired
What they do:
Dashboards and actionable insights for high-performing engineering…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Jitsu
Acquired
What they do:
Open-Source CDP (acquired by Helium Ventures)
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
webapp.io
Acquired
What they do:
Build webapps faster with 10x better CI/CD + preview envs
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Friz
Acquired
What they do:
AI Social Media Manager
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HQ: Singapore
Instant
Acquired
What they do:
The best backend for AI-coded apps
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
HyperDX
Acquired
What they do:
Open-source, dev-friendly observability.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vizzly
Acquired
What they do:
Customer-Facing Analytics for Modern SaaS.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Trigo
Acquired
What they do:
Rent verification API for landlords and lenders
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Outerbase
Acquired
What they do:
The interface for your database
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HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
OpenInt
Acquired
What they do:
Open Source Embedded Product Integrations
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HQ: Remote
Glide
Acquired
What they do:
Crypto Deposits, Wallet Funding, and Pay-with-crypto Infra
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Hoss
Acquired
What they do:
The developer experience platform
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States
Laudspeaker
Acquired
What they do:
Open source mobile marketing platform. Alternative to appcues /…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Warrant
Acquired
What they do:
Authorization and access control as a service.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Payload
Acquired
What they do:
Developer-First Headless CMS and Application Framework
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HQ: Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Neosync
Acquired
What they do:
Neosync is an open-source anonymization and synthetic data platform.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vocode
Acquired
What they do:
Open source Voice AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
TensorPool
Acquired
What they do:
Vercel For GPUs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
SlidePay
Acquired
What they do:
Banking and Payment Platform APIs. Exited October 2014.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Clutch
Acquired
What they do:
An easy to integrate library for native iOS applications designed to…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
PipelineDB
Acquired
What they do:
Open-source time-series data analytics extension for PostgreSQL
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Opsolutely
Acquired
What they do:
Automated deployments for software teams.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Scaphold.io
Acquired
What they do:
The Universal API
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Escher Reality
Acquired
What they do:
The backend for Augmented Reality.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
NewCraft
Acquired
What they do:
Universal API for HR & Payroll
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HQ: Remote
OneGraph
Acquired
What they do:
GraphQL API to connect all of the internet's APIs. Join us at Netlify!
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
KeyDB
Acquired
What they do:
The only database you'll ever need
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Nestybox
Acquired
What they do:
Enables Linux containers to act as super fast & efficient VMs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Arroyo
Acquired
What they do:
Cloud-native stream processing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
DAGWorks Inc.
Acquired
What they do:
Open source tools & services for reliable AI Agents & AI Applications
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
PeerDB
Acquired
What they do:
Fast, native ETL for Postgres 🐘 🚀
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Chatter
Acquired
What they do:
Dead simple LLM testing and iteration
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HQ: Philadelphia, PA, United States
OpenPipe
Acquired
What they do:
Turn expensive prompts into cheap fine-tuned models
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Standard Treasury
Acquired
What they do:
Banking APIs; acquired by Silicon Valley Bank in August 2015
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S13Early stage
Redspread
Acquired
What they do:
Version control for software environments
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W16Early stage
Hunter2
Acquired
What they do:
Hunter2 trains engineering teams in application security through…
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
YC W18Early stage