For years, startups have tried to fill varied gaps in how enterprises function to ostensibly enhance processes, remove grunt work, and assist managers establish and deal with the place their groups are losing time.
The newest to hitch this cohort is HackerPulse, which has constructed a platform that offers enterprises extra details about what their engineering groups are doing to allow them to spot productiveness bottlenecks and resolve inefficiencies.
The San Francisco-based firm provides a dashboard that integrates with builders instruments that engineers use, like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, along with instruments like income markers or person analytics. HackerPulse then pulls all this data collectively to assist staff leaders see the place and the way their engineering groups are spending their time. The startup says its software can even assist them higher construct teams of engineers for particular initiatives.
HackerPulse’s co-founder and CEO, Gleb Braverman (pictured above, within the center), says the software isn’t meant for use to trace what number of strains of code an engineer is writing — the platform can’t try this — in order that leaders can trim headcount. As an alternative, he argues, its goal is to assist managers determine methods to make engineering groups work higher.
“It’s very obscure what precisely the engineering staff is doing and the place their time is concentrated,” Braverman stated. “If there are bottlenecks, if engineers and groups spend loads of time on conferences, or they really have productive time the place points come up. Technically, all of this data is accessible, however with a purpose to really get it, you want to spend so much of time.”
Braverman stated his startup is engineer pleasant as a result of the platform was initially designed as a product for engineers to trace their very own progress, however then it morphed into an B2B answer resulting from enterprise demand.
HackerPulse is Braverman’s second startup. He was impressed to launch it after he listened to a podcast on which enterprise capitalist Invoice Gurley, a basic accomplice at Benchmark Capital, stated he was shocked nobody was trying to disrupt LinkedIn by making a rank-and-file system for workers.
Braverman began enthusiastic about that concept and known as up Alberto Scherb, a former angel investor in his first enterprise, Speakezee, which Braverman described as “Snapchat for voice.” Quickly afterwards, Braverman began coding, and launched the product in July 2024.
That fledgling product went on to amass 20,000 customers, and after getting suggestions from prospects and their angel buyers, Braverman realized the tech could possibly be tweaked for a probably bigger use case. “We rapidly understood that there’s a lot of demand for options like that,” he stated.
Proper now, HackerPulse targets firms with huge engineering groups and is presently specializing in telecom, manufacturing and logistics — areas the place tech adoption has lagged different industries. The startup has since onboarded a handful of enterprise prospects, which embody Preply, Coverflex and DiscoverCars.
Demand has been sturdy, Braverman says, and on the again of that, HackerPulse just lately raised $1.5 million in a seed spherical led by AlTalR Capital, with participation from Antler and DVC Fund. The corporate additionally raised capital from quite a few angel buyers that hail from firms like Uber, Cloudflare and Google, who had experience in areas like go-to-market, pricing methods and extra.
After all, this isn’t a brand new downside that firms have been attempting to unravel. Jellyfish, for one, has raised greater than $110 million in enterprise funding to do one thing comparable. And a few firms construct their very own inner instruments too.
Nonetheless, Braverman thinks HackerPulse’s give attention to the engineers and visibility makes it a greater choice: “We differentiate from them as a result of we’re trying extra into how groups function, and we are attempting to optimize work throughout groups, as an alternative of providing like experiences or report-based tooling primarily based in your information,” he stated.
After closing this funding spherical, the corporate’s important purpose is to drive gross sales and develop extra product options down the road.
“We wish to get to the purpose the place we’ve a number of tens of millions in ARR earlier than doing a Sequence A,” Braverman stated. “Proper now we’re targeted particularly on increasing our buyer base, getting suggestions from people who find themselves really utilizing the product, and attending to the purpose the place we really feel comfy towards transferring within the subsequent league.”