Friday, August 8, 2014

PagerDuty Secures $27.2M in Series B Funding to Pioneer Operations Performance Management for the Enterprise … and Make Life Awesomer for IT Pros


BOCA’s newest client, SF-based PagerDuty, the leader in operations performance management, recently raised $27.2M in Series B with the goal of becoming the hub of every company’s operations. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and joined by previous investors Andreessen Horowitz, Baseline Ventures and Harrison Metal. Trevor Oelschig of BVP has joined PagerDuty’s board of directors. PagerDuty will use the funds to fuel product development and accelerate hiring across several departments.

According to Co-founders CEO Alex Solomon and CTO Andrew Miklas, PagerDuty chose Bessemer to lead the funding round because not only are they the cloud and SaaS go-to-market model experts, but they are also “data geeks like us … who share the values and passion for the problem we’re solving.”


Founded in 2009 by Amazon engineers and Y Combinator veterans, Solomon and Miklas, joined by Baskar Puvanathasan, PagerDuty enables business continuity, increases software reliability, and makes life better for those IT Pros who are “on-call” to fix problems when something goes wrong with a company’s software and systems. Ultimately, the industry-first operations performance platform creates global visibility across an organization, fixes the broken incident lifecycle and delivers actionable data that helps teams prevent future issues. The results – improved system reliability and greater team productivity – that translate into increased revenue and customer satisfaction.

With over 80 employees and platform partners, PagerDuty supports thousands of customers, including 30 percent of the Fortune 100, and brands such as Microsoft, National Instruments, Electronic Arts, Adobe, Rackspace and Square.

News of the July 31st funding announcement resulted in top-tier coverage from a slew of business and “sexytech” outlets, including TechCrunch, GigaOm, PandoDaily and The Wall Street Journal:

      VentureBeat: PagerDuty gets $27.2M to become your company’s monitor of monitors by Jordan Novet (7/31)
      Fortune: Term Sheet - Thursday, July 31 by Erin Griffith (7/31)
      SVBJ: PagerDuty raises $27.2M to expand beyond IT trouble alerts by Cromwell Schubarth (7/31)
      TechCrunch: PagerDuty Lands $27.2M In Series B To Simplify IT Incident Management by Ron Miller (7/31)
      peHUB: BVP leads Series B round for PagerDuty by Iris Dorbian (7/31)
      WSJ: The Daily Startup: VCs On Pace to Break Late-Stage Record by Zoran Basich (7/31)
      Dow Jones: PagerDuty Raises $27.2M to Smooth IT Operations by Deborah Gage (7/31)

Congratulations again to PagerDuty! Cheers to an exciting and fruitful road ahead!



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