CloudBees

CloudBees co-founders Sacha Labourey and François Dechery began building the platform in 2009 together with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, and formally incorporated the company on March 9, 2010. Labourey had previously been CTO of JBoss.⁠[1][2]

On September 11, 2014, CloudBees announced it would discontinue its runtime PaaS, RUN@cloud, and devote all of its resources to Jenkins products, including Jenkins Enterprise, Jenkins Operations Center and the DEV@cloud service; RUN@cloud users had until the end of December 2014 to move off the platform.⁠[2]

The company said Jenkins then had more than 85,000 active installations worldwide, up 160 percent in 2013; CloudBees CTO Kohsuke Kawaguchi was the founder and community lead of the open-source Jenkins project.⁠[2]

In January 2015 CloudBees raised $23.5 million in a round led by longtime investor Lightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture Partners backs companies from seed through late-stage financing. Its website distinguishes Lightspeed Management Company (LSVP) from Lightspeed India Partners (LSIP): the two are separately operated investment advisers, with the U.S., European, and Israeli offices belonging to LSVP and the India and Southeast Asia offices belonging to LSIP.Open the full entry, with Matrix PartnersMatrix PartnersMatrix Partners, now branded Matrix, is a US early-stage venture capital firm with roots in Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, established in 1977. Matrix was founded in 1982 and invests in technology companies from the idea stage through Series A.Open the full entry, VerizonVerizonVerizon (Verizon Communications Inc.) is one of the largest telecommunications carriers in the United States, formed in 2000 through the merger of Bell Atlantic, one of the “Baby Bells,” and GTE. Headquartered in New York City, it operates a nationwide wireless network, Fios fiber broadband and communications services for businesses and government, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.Open the full entry Ventures and Blue Cloud Ventures participating; after earlier rounds of $4 million, $10.5 million and $10.8 million, its total funding since 2010 was just under $50 million.⁠[3]

The company then had offices in the United States and Belgium, and its international entity, CloudBees International, was registered in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where Labourey was based.⁠[3]

In February 2018 CloudBees acquired Codeship, a continuous integration and delivery service, for an undisclosed price. Codeship had been founded in Vienna in 2011 by Moritz Plassnig, Manuel Weiss and Florian Motlik, was originally called Railsonfire, later moved to Boston, had raised $11.1 million in venture capital and had about 2,400 paying cloud customers.⁠[4]

Then-CEO Labourey called it the acquisition with the greatest impact on CloudBees’ business: “In der gesamten Geschichte von CloudBees ist dies die Übernahme mit dem größten Einfluss auf unser Geschäft.”⁠[4]

In April 2019 CloudBees completed its acquisition of Electric Cloud, a continuous delivery and application release automation company, announcing the deal on April 18. Founded in 2002, Electric Cloud had about 110 employees and offered ElectricFlow and ElectricAccelerator.⁠[5]

In June 2019 CloudBees acquired Rollout, an Israel-based feature flag service, its third acquisition in about 18 months.⁠[6]

Stephen DeWitt joined CloudBees as CEO in February 2021. On December 9, 2021, the company announced a $150 million Series F at a pre-money valuation of $1 billion and a $95 million debt facility, totaling $245 million.⁠[7]

The round was led by client vehicles advised by Goldman SachsGoldman SachsGoldman Sachs is an American financial services group headquartered in New York whose businesses include investment banking, securities trading, asset management, and wealth management. It traces its origins to the commercial paper business Marcus Goldman founded in 1869; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 under the ticker GS and became a bank holding company in 2008. David Solomon serves as chairman and chief executive officer.Open the full entry Asset Management Private Credit, with new investment from funds affiliated with Morgan StanleyMorgan StanleyMorgan Stanley is an American global financial services firm that grew from an investment banking partnership into a publicly traded financial group spanning investment banking, securities trading, wealth management, and investment management.Open the full entry Private Credit and Bridgepoint Credit and repeat investors HSBC, Golub Capital and Delta-v Capital. CloudBees then had 21 customers with annual recurring revenue above $1 million, and its headcount had grown 70 percent since 2018 to more than 500.⁠[7]

In August 2022 CloudBees appointed Anuj Kapur president and CEO. Co-founder Sacha Labourey, who had been serving as interim CEO, became chief strategy officer, remaining on the board and reporting to Kapur. Kapur had been president of corporate development and strategy at SAP and chief strategy officer at CiscoCiscoCisco Systems, Inc. is an American networking technology company, incorporated in 1984, headquartered in San Jose, California, and listed on Nasdaq.Open the full entry from 2018 to 2020, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Wharton SchoolWharton SchoolThe Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. Established through Joseph Wharton’s gift in 1881, it offers undergraduate, MBA, doctoral and executive education.Open the full entry.⁠[8]

In August 2024 CloudBees acquired Launchable, an AI-driven testing intelligence company; CloudBees says customers can cut test execution time by up to 80 percent with it.⁠[1]

Marking its 15th anniversary in March 2025, CloudBees said it was profitable with annual recurring revenue above $150 million, serving more than 500 large organizations and over 500,000 developers, with customers including SalesforceSalesforceSalesforce is a U.S. enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, providing cloud applications, data platforms and AI agent tools centered on customer relationship management (CRM).Open the full entry, AdobeAdobeAdobe (Adobe Inc.) is a software company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. Known for PostScript, PDF and creative software such as Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, it moved its main creative products to Creative Cloud subscriptions from 2013 and expanded into digital marketing and generative AI; it is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker ADBE.Open the full entry, Accenture and the US Internal Revenue Service.⁠[1]

On June 16, 2026, CloudBees named Codeship founder Moritz Plassnig CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Anuj Kapur; Plassnig had most recently been chief product officer at data security and governance platform Immuta, and joined the CloudBees board.⁠[9]

The company said it was becoming “an AI-first company,” with CloudBees Unify as its core product, positioned as a governance layer over how code moves from generation to production. Co-founder and board member Labourey said the board had not brought in Plassnig “to stay the course.”⁠[9]

CloudBees: Official website: https://www.cloudbees.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[9]

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LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudbees (opens in a new window).⁠[9]

YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry: Public channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CloudBeesTV (opens in a new window).⁠[9]