Providing Companies the Fastest Path from Great Ideas to Impactful Software: CloudBees

CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins^® and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for automating software development and delivery. CloudBees starts with Jenkins, the most trusted and widely-adopted continuous delivery platform, and adds enterprise-grade security, scalability, manageability and expert-level support. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software and returning value to the business more quickly.

Sacha Labourey, former CTO of JBoss, is the founder of CloudBees. CloudBees is also home to Kohsuke Kawaguchi, CTO, and creator and lead developer of Jenkins. Jenkins is the world’s most popular open source automation server, with hundreds of thousands of active installations around the world. CloudBees Jenkins Solutions enable enterprises to use Jenkins at scale - whether on-premise, in the cloud or in hybrid environments.

CloudBees was founded in early 2010, is incorporated in the United States and has worker Bees in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Across the company, CloudBees employees share a strong pedigree in continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps, application development and open source.

CloudBees raised $4 million USD in a Series A round from Matrix Partners in 2010. In 2011, a Series B round raised another $10.5 million USD from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matrix Partners. Finally, a Series C round in 2014 raised $11.2 million. This round was led by Verizon Ventures, the investment arm of Verizon Communications Inc. The round also included existing investors Matrix Partners and LightSpeed Venture Partners, as well as new investor Blue Cloud Ventures. 

In 2015, CloudBees raised $23.5 million USD in a round of growth funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and with participation from existing investors Matrix Partners, Verizon Ventures, and Blue Cloud Ventures.

In 2018, CloudBees acquired Codeship. The Codeship by CloudBees products extend the CloudBees product offerings to include both cloud-based, SaaS continuous integration, and continuous delivery, as well as our popular enterprise-grade, Jenkins-based solutions.

How CloudBees Helps Your Organization!

Make Software that Matters: Keep building, keep improving, keep up with what users want – all while backed by the leader in continuous delivery.

DevOps at the Enterprise Level: CloudBees takes Jenkins, the most trusted platform for DevOps, and adds enterprise-class security, stability, and manageability.

Software at the Speed of Ideas: Teams using CloudBees deliver software 6x faster on average – as fast as you can think it, you can build it, test it and deploy it.

Brought to you by the Experts: CloudBees was developed by the creators and top contributors of Jenkins – no one is better equipped to give you the support, training, and features you want.

Powered For the Enterprise, Loved By Developers

• Expert Support: Receive engineer-to-engineer help and guidance from the experts at CloudBees, many of whom are CCJPE-certified and Jenkins®open source committers. 
• Customer Success Management: Get the most out of your subscription with the proactive engagement of Customer Success Managers and Technical Success Managers.
• Self-Service Support: Find answers and resolve issues at digital speed using knowledge base articles, diagnostic tools, and a vibrant customer community.

Clientele Testimonies

“With CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, we don’t have to think about infrastructure anymore. If we want to add a new product line, a new pipeline, a new master or a new way of working, it is straightforward – there is no bottleneck or added load to our responsibilities.”

• José Roca Director of engineering, Prezi

“Powered by CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, this new approach has enabled WatchGuard to rapidly innovate, which is key to maintaining our position as a leading provider of security solutions for small and midsized enterprises.”

• Jack Waters, Senior vice president of engineering, WatchGuard

“With DevOps and CloudBees, we are able to innovate faster and deliver more value and better service to our customers than ever before and with higher quality and security features than we ever thought possible. We have strengthened our market position and have been able to quickly expand into more regions which ultimately drives revenue.”

• Ryan Berrío Cardona, Director of IT architecture, Suramericana

Founders’ Desk

Sacha Labourey, CEO, and Founder:

Sacha was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and graduated in 1999 from EPFL. It was during Sacha’s studies in 1996 that he started his first consulting business - Cogito Informatique. In 2001, he joined Marc Fleury’s JBoss project as a core contributor and implemented JBoss’ original clustering features. In 2003, Sacha founded the European headquarters for JBoss and, as GM for Europe, led the strategy and partnerships that helped fuel the company’s growth in that region. While in this position, he led the recruitment of some of JBoss’ key talent and acquisition of key technology. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss, Inc. and oversaw all of JBoss engineering. In June 2006, JBoss, Inc. was acquired by Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). After the acquisition, Sacha remained JBoss CTO and played a crucial role in integrating and productizing JBoss software with Red Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager of Red Hat’s middleware division. He ultimately left Red Hat in April 2009 and founded CloudBees in April 2010.

“We are a hub of enterprise Jenkins^® and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for automating software development and delivery.”