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CloudBees, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware development
Founded2010
HeadquartersSan Jose, California
Key peopleMoritz Plassnig (CEO)[1]
Products
  • CloudBees Jenkins Platform - Enterprise Edition
Revenue$150 million[2]
Number of employees
500 (approx.)[2][3]
Websitewww.cloudbees.com

CloudBees is an enterprise software delivery company.[4][5][6] Sacha Labourey and Francois Dechery co-founded the company in early 2010, and investors include Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HSBC, Verizon Ventures, Golub Capital, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgepoint Group.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

CloudBees is headquartered in San Jose, California with additional offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, Lewes, Delaware, Richmond, Virginia, Berlin, London, and Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[4] CloudBees' software originally included a Platform as a Service offering, which let developers use Jenkins (software) in the cloud, along with an on-premise version of Jenkins with additional functions for enterprise companies. In 2020, CloudBees also introduced a Software Delivery Automation platform.[14][15]

History

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CloudBees was founded in 2010 by Sacha Labourey and Francois Dechery. Later that year, CloudBees acquired InfraDNA, a company run by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins.[5][8]

Since 2010, CloudBees has raised a total of over $250 million in venture financing from investors. CloudBees customers include Salesforce, Capital One, United States Air Force,[16] and HSBC.[13]

In September 2014, CloudBees stopped offering runtime PaaS services and began to focus on its enterprise Jenkins for on-premises and cloud-based continuous delivery.[4][14] Also in 2014, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the lead developer and founder of Jenkins, became CloudBees' CTO.[8][14]

In 2016, the company added a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its continuous delivery software.[17]

In February 2018, CloudBees acquired the cloud-based continuous delivery company Codeship.[18]

In 2019, CloudBees acquired Electric Cloud and Rollout.[19]

In 2020, Kawaguchi left his role as CTO of CloudBees to found a new company, Launchable.[20]

In 2021, CloudBees announced CloudBees Compliance, a compliance and risk analysis capability platform for software delivery.[21] CloudBees raised $150 million in a series F funding round in December 2021.[13]

In 2022, CloudBees announced the acquisition of ReleaseIQ, a SaaS-based offering, to expand the company’s DevSecOps capabilities.[22] In 2014, CloudBees Inc. acquired the AI-based software testing startup Launchable Inc.[23] In 2025, CloudBees Unify was announced in an early access phase. The devops platform uses an AI features and acts as an operating layer on top of an existing tool chain.[24]

References

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  1. ↑ Hurst, Aaron (16 June 2026). "CloudBees Names Moritz Plassnig Chief Executive Officer". Information Age. Retrieved 15 September 2026.
  2. 1 2 "CloudBees Announces a Monumental Milestone of $150 Million in Annual Revenue".
  3. ↑ "CloudBees Overview". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 Alspach, Kyle (14 November 2014). "CloudBees Has Quietly Moved Its HQ to San Francisco". BostInno. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  5. 1 2 Wauters, Robin (July 25, 2011). "CloudBees Zooms to $10.5 Million In Funding For 'Java-As-A-Platform'". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ Harrus, Derrick (July 25, 2012). "3 PaaS Lessons from CloudBees". Giagaom. Retrieved March 14, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (27 January 2015). "CloudBees Raises $23.5M Funding Round Led By Lightspeed Venture Partners". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 Finley, Klint (October 1, 2012). "CloudBees". Wired. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  9. ↑ Ian Murphy (22 May 2019). "CloudBees scores US$10 million from HSBC". Enterprise Times. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  10. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (5 March 2014). "CloudBees Raises $11.2M Series C Led By Verizon Ventures To Expand Its Java-Centric Enterprise PaaS". TechCrunch. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "CloudBees Raises $11m In Series C Financing". Redhat. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  12. ↑ CloudBees Raises $62m for Its DevOps Platform - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/cloudbees-raises-62m-for-its-devops-platform/
  13. 1 2 3 Paul Sawers (December 9, 2021). "Enterprise software delivery platform CloudBees raises $150M". Venture Beat. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  14. 1 2 3 Wolpe, Toby (11 September 2014). "Jenkins is now sole focus for CloudBees as it drops PaaS and teams up with Pivotal". ZDNet. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  15. ↑ Parkerson, Stuart (13 December 2014). "New CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise and Operations Center Announced". App Developer Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  16. ↑ "Software Delivery Platform CloudBees Hits $1B Valuation As It Competes With The Likes Of GitLab, GitHub, LaunchDarkly, And CircleCI". CB Insights. December 13, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  17. ↑ Fay, Joe (23 February 2016). "Cloudbees Serves Up Jenkins Private SaaSy Style". The Register. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  18. ↑ Leonard, John (7 February 2018). "As CloudBees acquires Codeship, what's next for DevOps? Computing talks to the two CEOs". Computing. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  19. ↑ Scott Carey. "Notable technology acquisitions 2019". Computer World. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  20. ↑ Richard Speed. "Jenkins creator steps back from CloudBees and flings himself at startup Launchable". The Register. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  21. ↑ Adrian Bridgwater (September 30, 2021). "CloudBees combs code to sweeten continuous compliance". Computer Weekly. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  22. ↑ "CloudBees Acquires ReleaseIQ DevOps Platform". CloudBees. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
  23. ↑ "Cloudbees acquires AI-based software testing startup Launchable", Duncan Riley, August 7, 2024, SiliconAngle
  24. ↑ "CloudBees unveils AI-enhanced devops platform", May 21, 2025, InfoWorld
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