CloudBees Raises $23.5 Million

The latest funding announcement follows earlier rounds of $4 million, $10.5 million and $10.8 million, bringing the total investment in CloudBees to just under $50 million since the company’s inception in 2010. Previous venture investment rounds were led by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures with participation from Blue Cloud Ventures, JBoss alumni Bob Bickel and Marc Fleury, and Ed Bugnion, co-founder of VMware.

CloudBees plans to use the funding to facilitate the ongoing and significant growth the company is experiencing from demand for its continuous delivery (CD) solutions based on Jenkins CI, the leading open source continuous integration (CI) platform. With Jenkins’ global dominance as the hub of continuous delivery for enterprises, CloudBees sees explosive demand in 2015 for its Jenkins-based solutions. The CloudBees solutions enable organizations to leverage Jenkins and CD practices at enterprise scale.

“This investment in CloudBees tops a year of continuous growth and acceleration, fueled by the adoption of continuous delivery as companies in all markets realize that software is eating the world,” said Sacha Labourey, founder and chief executive officer of CloudBees. “We will use the additional capital to serve the growing demand for Jenkins-based solutions worldwide, to continue to capture market share and to further cement our position as the continuous delivery leader.”

CloudBees plans to make investments in a variety of areas – including development, marketing, sales and professional services  – to increase marketshare. The company also plans to introduce new products to serve an even broader range of customers – from smaller implementations to full-scale enterprise footprints – and to make new investments in strategic partnerships.

About CloudBees
CloudBees provides solutions that enable IT organizations to respond rapidly to the software delivery needs of the business. Building on the strength of Jenkins CI, the world’s most popular open source continuous delivery hub and ecosystem, the CloudBees Continuous Delivery Platform provides a wide range of CD solutions for use on-premise and in the cloud that meet the unique security, scalability and manageability needs of enterprises. The CloudBees Jenkins-based CD solutions support many of the world’s largest and most business-critical deployments.

CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of middleware and open source technology professionals. The company has offices in the US and Belgium. Cloudbees International is registered in Neuchâtel where Sacha Labourey is based too.