What is Gremlin?
Gremlin operates as the premier hosted Chaos Engineering platform, dedicated to building a more reliable internet. The company provides engineers with sophisticated tooling to safely conduct experiments on distributed systems, effectively turning potential failure points into opportunities for architectural hardening. By identifying weaknesses in production environments, Gremlin helps major corporations—including GrubHub, JPMorgan, and Twilio—mitigate revenue loss and maintain high availability. Its market position is defined by a shift from reactive incident response to proactive, automated resilience testing, a critical requirement for modern cloud-native infrastructure.
How much funding has Gremlin raised?
Gremlin has raised a total of $26.8M across 3 funding rounds:
Other Financing Round
$1.3M
Series A
$7.5M
Series B
$18M
Other Financing Round (2016): $1.3M with participation from Amplify Partners
Series A (2017): $7.5M led by Index Ventures and Amplify Partners
Series B (2018): $18M supported by Redpoint Ventures
Key Investors in Gremlin
Amplify Partners
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments for companies pioneering novel applications in machine intelligence and computer science.
Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a global venture firm that partners with entrepreneurs from seed to IPO, focusing on companies that challenge the status quo.
Redpoint Ventures
Redpoint Ventures is a long-standing venture capital firm with a primary focus on supporting early growth-stage companies through strategic capital and operational guidance.
What's next for Gremlin?
With the support of its latest capital backing, Gremlin is poised to scale its engineering efforts and deepen its integration capabilities across diverse cloud environments. The company's strategic focus will likely center on enhancing its automated failure-testing suite to support increasingly complex microservices architectures. As enterprises continue to migrate mission-critical workloads to the cloud, the demand for Gremlin's resilience-as-a-service model is expected to grow, providing a clear path for sustained market leadership and long-term value creation for its stakeholders.
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