LaunchDarkly
These are background notes written for application answers, not a full company-research run. The "Verified" section was checked against sources in Oct 2026; the background list is from memory and should be confirmed before quoting.
Verified Oct 2026
- Private. Last priced round: $200M Series D (2021), ~$3B valuation. No IPO filing found.
- $200M+ ARR, 25%+ YoY growth, a quarter of the Fortune 500 (GlobeNewswire, 2026-08-06).
- AI pivot: "runtime control layer for agentic AI". AgentControl (launched 2026-05-19) manages prompts/models/tools/policies as runtime config, with guarded rollouts, benchmarking, tracing, and <200ms propagation. AI pipeline nearly doubled after launch. 50T flag evaluations a day.
Background (unverified)
- Founded 2014 by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal; HQ Oakland, CA. Remote-friendly.
- CEO: co-founder Edith Harbaugh (per Aug 2026 release; Dan Rogers was CEO from 2023). CTO Cameron Etezadi. New CRO Andy Pemberton (ex-OutSystems, Aug 2026).
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Product: feature management platform (feature flags, progressive delivery, targeting), plus experimentation, "guarded releases" (auto-rollback on regressions), AI Configs (managing prompts/models at runtime), and observability/session replay (Highlight acquisition, 2025).
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Positioning: "release software safely" / decouple deploy from release; reduce blast radius.
- Funding: ~$330M total; Series D $200M (2021, ~$3B valuation). Notable investors: Bessemer, Threshold, Redpoint, Uncork.
- Customers: thousands of enterprises (e.g., IBM, Atlassian-era refs, large banks/airlines).
- Competitors: Statsig (acquired by OpenAI 2025), Split (acquired by Harness), Optimizely, Unleash, GrowthBook, Flagsmith.