Honeycomb (company)
Honeycomb (honeycomb.io) is a private software company based in San Francisco. It was founded in 2016 by Christine Yen (CEO) and Charity Majors (CTO) to build tools for debugging live cloud applications. Its SaaS platform focuses on observability and application performance management (APM), helping developers diagnose issues in live microservice apps. Honeycomb accepts telemetry from OpenTelemetry instruments, Structured JSON, or other custom data, and offers metrics, tracing visualizations, and AI-assisted debugging. The software runs on a proprietary columnar database on Amazon Web Services, and Amazon has highlighted Honeycomb as an early adopter of the Graviton ARM processors.
Investors include Headline, Scale Venture Partners, and Insight Partners. Funding history: seed $4 million; Series A $11 million in 2019; Series B $20 million in 2020; Series C $50 million in 2021; Series D $50 million in 2023, totaling about $150 million.
In 2021, Honeycomb appointed an employee representative to its board, a relatively uncommon governance move in the US. By 2023, the executive team, board, and employees were at least half women or non-binary, making the company unusually gender-diverse for a tech startup.
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