LaunchDarkly raised $21 million to help companies test and control software features

One of the challenges facing small and big enterprises alike is how to build quality software faster. However, most organizations do not have the resources to keep up with frequent software releases to meet their business demands. That’s where LaunchDarkly comes in–help companies deliver quality software with speed and efficiency.  LaunchDarkly provides a continuous delivery platform that powers developers to build better software, faster. It provides the benefits of feature flag driven development. to both small and large teams. LaunchDarkly revolutionizes continuous delivery by allowing you to iterate quickly and safely.

Currently, LaunchDarkly serves billions of feature flags daily to help software teams eliminate risk in their software development and release planning cycles. The startup currently boasts of high-end clients like GoPro and Macy.  Investors are also paying attention.  The company just raised $21 million from Redpoint Ventures and Vertex Ventures.  Back in December, 2016, the company raised $8.7M to get access to the right features in front of right users. This is company third funding rounds.”I’m pleased to announce that we’ve raised $21M in our Series B to accelerate our own growth in engineering, customer success, and category education,” the company founder and CEO Edith Harbaugh announced in a blog post on its website. The company went on to say:

” We found perfect partners in Scott Raney (Redpoint) and Jonathan Heiliger (Vertex). Scott has been a long time friend of LaunchDarkly, giving me advice and guesting on my podcast, “To Be Continuous”. Jonathan is a cloud infrastructure pioneer who is very familiar with the value LaunchDarkly provides from his time at Facebook. I’m looking forward to working closely with them both through the next chapter of LaunchDarkly.”

The Oakland-based company was founded in July, 2014 by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal. The company is growing rapidly and currently looking to hire more employees. It’s Feature Management Platform currently serves over 10 billion feature flags daily.

LaunchDarkly also provides software development kits (SDKs) on both the web and mobile platforms.