NetBox Labs

Snapshot

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of NetBox, the open-source (Apache 2.0) network and infrastructure "source of truth" (~21.8k GitHub stars, nearly 400 contributors, "10,000+ organizations"). It sells NetBox Cloud (managed SaaS on AWS EKS), NetBox Enterprise (self-managed) and add-on products (Discovery/Orb, Diode, Assurance, Branching, Copilot, Asset Lifecycle, Validation, NDX, an MCP server), priced on the tools used and the size of the customer's infrastructure. In June 2026 it repositioned as an "infrastructure intelligence platform built for both humans and agents", and it now leans hard on AI data-center buildouts (NVIDIA, CoreWeave, neoclouds). It's a Series B startup, fully remote, about 125 to 150 people, with revenue in the single-digit millions (Aug 2025) and growing about 4x a year by the CEO's account.

Mission, purpose, vision, values

No formal mission or vision page. In their own words:

• "We're building the world's ecosystem for managing the most complex networks" (https://netboxlabs.com/about/, H1)
• "Bringing simplicity and surety to modern networks and infra" (about page)
• "As the commercial steward of open source NetBox, NetBox Labs delivers surety for the community and advanced capabilities in our commercial offerings, ensuring NetBox and its thriving ecosystem meet the needs of ever more critical use cases across every industry." (about page)
• "NetBox Labs makes it easier to build and manage complex networks and infrastructure." (https://netboxlabs.com/careers/)
• "NetBox Labs simplifies the full infrastructure lifecycle for the world's most demanding technical environments." (press boilerplate, June 2026)
• Values (about and careers pages):
  • Own it: "We take pride in solving important problems for people and businesses. That means being direct and candid about what's not working."
  • Keep it simple: "We keep it simple, clear, and honest — delivering straightforward answers and avoiding unnecessary complexity."
  • Community first: "Our community of open source contributors, users, and customers makes us stronger. We serve them, not the other way around."
  • Get it out there (careers page only): "As a remote-first team spread across the globe, we have to communicate early and often... If it's perfect, it's too late."
• How they work (careers page): "Working at NetBox Labs means stepping on the accelerator. We ship fast, we take ownership, and we swing big."

History

• 2016: Jeremy Stretch creates NetBox at DigitalOcean. It's later moved to the netbox-community GitHub org.
• About 2021–22: NS1 (the DNS company co-founded by Kris Beevers) hires Stretch as a distinguished engineer and builds "NS1 Labs" around NetBox Cloud. Beevers: "we saw NetBox being used everywhere... We hired the creator of NetBox, Jeremy Stretch, and eventually spun out a new company." (Pulse 2.0, Feb 2026)
• Jan–Feb 2023: NetBox Labs is spun out of NS1 just before IBM's acquisition of NS1 (announced late Feb 2023). CB Insights dates the spin-out to 2023-02-01. IBM stays on as an investor.
• Apr 2023: $20M Series A led by Flybridge.
• Jul 2025: $35M Series B led by NGP Capital.
• Feb 2026: NetBox Copilot (AI assistant) becomes generally available.
• Jun 2026: On NetBox's 10th anniversary, the company rebrands as an "Infrastructure Intelligence Platform" and adds NDX, Asset Lifecycle, Validation and an MCP server with agent skills.
• Oct 2026: First NetBox Evolve conference (Kennedy Space Center, 2026-10-13), plus NVIDIA and Grafana partnerships. NetBox becomes the source of truth for NVIDIA Configuration Manager in DSX OS.

Ownership and status

Private, venture-backed. NetBox Labs, Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in New York City, with no parent company. IBM holds a minority stake (investor since the spin-out). The open-source NetBox project is Apache 2.0, and NetBox Labs employs its creator and lead maintainer.

Funding

• Total raised: about $55M ("more than $55 million", June 2026 release).
• Last round: 16 months ago. With revenue growing fast and a team of about 130, a Series C sometime in 2026–27 is plausible. Nothing has been announced (my estimate, not a reported fact).
• Form D (SEC EDGAR, read 2026-11-05): NetBox Labs, Inc. (CIK 0001973026) has exactly two filings, both original Form Ds with no amendments and no other form types. Both are equity, Rule 506(b), $0 sales commissions or finders' fees, revenue range "Decline to Disclose", industry "Other Technology", no non-accredited investors.
  • Series A, filed 2023-04-12: first sale 2023-03-31; offering $20,000,000, sold $18,350,000, $1,650,000 remaining at filing; 26 investors. No amendment was filed, so EDGAR doesn't show whether the last $1.65M closed (the press release says $20M).
  • Series B, filed 2025-07-14: first sale 2025-06-27; offering and sold $34,999,979 (fully closed); 13 investors.
  • Filed total: about $53.35M sold, against the company's "more than $55 million" claim. The gap is the unconfirmed tail of the Series A plus anything raised outside Form D (e.g. SAFEs or IBM's spin-out stake).
  • Entity: Delaware corporation, incorporated 2022 (before the public spin-out in early 2023), 99 Wall Street #300, New York, NY 10005; fiscal year ends Dec 31; no former names.
  • Related persons (both filings): Kristopher Beevers (CEO; executive officer and director), Salil Jani (COO; executive officer and director), Xiao Wei (CFO; executive officer), and directors David Aronoff, Glenn Solomon, Raj Dutt. The board line-up hasn't changed between the A and the B, so NGP Capital (the B lead) had no board seat as of July 2025.
• Board: Kris Beevers, Salil Jani (per Form D), David Aronoff (Flybridge), Glenn Solomon (Notable/GGV), Raj Dutt (Grafana Labs).

Financials

• Revenue: "in the single-digit millions" (Beevers to B17/Business Insider, Aug 2025).
• Growth: "more than 4x over the past 12 months on top of 4x the previous year" (Beevers, Pulse 2.0, Feb 2026). If that holds, revenue is probably now in the low tens of millions (my estimate).
• Customers: "roughly 200" paying customers (Aug 2025), including ARM, Cisco, CoreWeave, J.P. Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, Riot Games, Constant Contact and state DOTs. "Dozens of Fortune 500." "A third of customers use multiple NetBox Labs products" (June 2026). The "10,000+ organizations" figure counts open-source users, not customers.
• Profitability: not disclosed. They're presumably burning cash.

People and headcount

• Trend (Revelio): 17 (Q2 2023), 26 (end 2023), 45 (end 2024), 105 (end 2025), 128 (Q1 2026). That's roughly 2x a year, in line with the company's "quadrupled in two years" (Jul 2025).
• LinkedIn (company home page, 2026-11-05): tagline "We make it easier to build and manage complex networks."; industry "Computer Networking Products"; about 10K followers; monthly newsletter "NetBox Labs Insider" with 2,960 subscribers. Its 149 for Oct 2026 matches Built In's 150, and its 73% one-year growth is slower than Revelio's ~2x a year. "People also viewed" lists Network to Code (the Nautobot company, the closest competitor) and NS1.
• Hiring (LinkedIn post, ~2026-10-31): "Open roles this week span sales, customer success, engineering, product, and marketing, in the US, Germany, France, Australia, and Latin America. Every role is remote."
• Engineering: about 47% of staff by Revelio's count (60 of 128, Q1 2026). Built In says 50 to 65 product + tech. The VP Engineering posting (Jul 2026) put the org at three engineering directors over 40 to 100 engineers.
• Locations: fully remote ("Work from almost anywhere — our team is fully remote"). About 70% North America and 26% Northern Europe, mostly UK (Revelio). Some roles hire in Germany and Australia. They hold global team offsites. The NYC HQ is nominal.
• Leadership (https://netboxlabs.com/about/):
  • Kris Beevers, co-founder and CEO (previously co-founder and CEO of NS1, acquired by IBM; second-time founder)
  • Jeremy Stretch, Chief NetBox Officer (creator of NetBox)
  • Shannon Weyrick, CTO (NS1 alum, long-time Beevers collaborator)
  • Salil Jani, COO
  • Bill Lapcevic, CRO
  • Mark Coleman, Chief Product Strategy Officer
  • Xiao Wei, CFO and Head of People
  • Maggie Naron, Chief of Staff
  • There's also a VP of Product (named in a job post, not identified). A VP Engineering search ran in mid-2026 (posting removed 2026-07-28), so it's probably filled. Who holds it isn't known.

Engineering

• Org shape: It's going from a single product to a multi-product platform, delivered both as SaaS and on-prem. Teams visible in job posts: NetBox Core/Core Apps, Cloud Delivery (the SaaS platform on AWS EKS running "thousands of customer instances"), NetBox Delivery (on-prem/Enterprise), Foundations (auth, SSO, licensing, billing), Observability (Orb, telemetry), Discovery, Assurance and Integrations. Architecture runs through SIGs and RFCs. A Principal Engineer reports to the CTO.
• Tech stack: Python/Django (NetBox core), Go (Diode, Orb agent, observability backends), C++ (pktvisor), gRPC/protobuf, PostgreSQL, Redis/Redis Streams, ClickHouse, Kafka/MQTT/AMQP, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Mimir/Loki/Grafana, Kubernetes (EKS), AWS, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions. Job ads explicitly expect AI-assisted development (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) and the VP Eng post mentions "spec-driven development, AI-assisted implementation and review."
• Open source (GitHub, read 2026-11-05): netbox-community/netbox has 21.8k stars and the org has 28 repos, including netbox-docker (2.8k), devicetype-library (1.6k) and pynetbox (690). The netboxlabs org has 29 repos: pktvisor (526, C++), netbox-mcp-server (254, Python), diode (167, Go), netbox-branching (159), orb-agent (107, Go) and netbox-custom-objects (99). Most were pushed this week.
• Engineering roles seen in 2026 (most are now closed; I couldn't fetch the live list, since the Ashby board renders only in a browser):
  • VP Engineering, $270–290K, remote US (closed 2026-07-28)
  • Principal Engineer, reports to the CTO
  • Staff SWE / Tech Lead on Observability (closed May 2026), NetBox Delivery ($110–240K) and Foundations ($220–240K)
  • Senior Backend (Observability)
  • Senior DevOps, Cloud Delivery
  • Security Architect ($210–230K)
  • Revelio counted 18 active postings in 2026 (vs 8 in 2025). Built In showed 18 open roles with 6 in engineering (2026-10-06).

Culture and reviews

• Glassdoor (read 2026-11-05): 4.9 from only 10 reviews, 100% recommend, 100% positive outlook. The visible reviews are mostly from SDRs who'd been there less than a year (Jan–Jun 2026). This is too small and too sales-heavy a sample to mean much. Praise: strong team, second-time-founder leadership with "clear vision", pay. Complaints: ambitious goals create pressure, ambiguity and rework because systems are "not fully formed", and one reviewer said the company is "slow to move." CEO approval and interview data weren't visible.
• Pay:
  • Posted ranges: VP Eng $270–290K; Staff/backend engineering $215–240K; Staff PM $205–225K plus equity.
  • Revelio's average across all staff is about $124K, with a North America median of $136K.
  • Benefits: "meaningful equity" for everyone, premium medical, dental and vision, 401(k) or pension contributions with no match required, unlimited PTO, parental leave, home-office stipend, and AI-adoption training.
• Interview process: not found.

Recent news (last 12 months)

• 2026-11 (LinkedIn posts): German "Network Roadshow 2026" with partner Controlware (Berlin, then Stuttgart 2026-11-10, Munich, Offenbach); NetBox Designs webinar set for 2026-12-03; partner events with BlueAlly (DC) and Presidio (Philadelphia). Heavy channel-partner, field-sales motion.
• 2026-10-27: Partnership with NEYON AI to speed AI-factory buildouts.
• 2026-10-20: HyperFRAME Research analyst note. It repeats the company claim that NetBox is "used by over 90% of top neoclouds."
• 2026-10-13: NVIDIA and Grafana Labs partnerships announced at the first NetBox Evolve conference. NetBox becomes the source of truth for NVIDIA Configuration Manager (DSX OS). NetBox Agents enter public preview. The managed MCP server is GA. Arista CloudVision, AWS VPC IPAM and Cisco Nexus Dashboard integrations are GA.
• 2026-09-15: Strategic partnership with Presidio.
• 2026-08-24: Finalist in SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards (AI Infrastructure & Systems).
• 2026-07-21: Strategic partnership with BlueAlly.
• 2026-06-11: "Infrastructure Intelligence Platform" launch, adding NDX, Asset Lifecycle, Validation and the MCP server with agent skills.
• 2026-04-01: Strategic partnership with AHEAD.
• 2026-02-10: NetBox Copilot GA, and a strategic partnership with World Wide Technology.
• 2025-11-12: AI Data Center Acceleration Program launched.
• No layoffs, leadership departures or lawsuits found.

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