Best Build Tools Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 36 best Build Tools companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Gitlab.
Ranked: Best Build Tools companies in San Francisco
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gitlab Provider of a platform for software development, security, and delivery | $435M | 48 mo ago | 699 | 2011 | Sid Sijbrandij Co-Founder & CEO | — | 34 patents Automated code analysis, CI/CD pipelines, and vulnerability management for software development | 2 launchs |
| 2 | Harness 🦄 Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization 90Tech top 18%Funding top 19%Growth top 25%Moat top 25% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 18% Fundingtop 19% Growthtop 25% Moattop 25% Innovationtop 28% Patentstop 28% Talenttop 28% Markettop 32% Producttop 36% Globaltop 37% Fin. healthtop 37% Tech: 69 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services Funding: Raised $425M across 13 rounds · 13 rounds over 9 yrs (1.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 90/100 | $425M | 9 mo ago | 145 | 2017 | Jyoti Bansal CEO & Co-Founder | SkilljarApple iCloud MailAlgolia+24 | 31 patents Automation, observability, and security tooling for software development and deployment pipelines | 1 launch |
| 3 | CircleCI 🦄 Provider of a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery | $316M | 64 mo ago | 404 404 → 359 (-11%) | 2011 | Jim Rose CEO | ContentfulSentryApple iCloud Mail+33 | — | — |
| 4 | Netlify 🦄 Provider of a platform for web application development and deployment | $212M | 58 mo ago | 295 | 2013 | Mathias Christensen Co-Founder & CEO | HighchartsGoogle Sign-inTailwind CSS+24 | — | — |
| 5 | Armory Provider of AI-powered platform for software delivery and DevOps automation | $82M | 71 mo ago | 63 | 2016 | — | — | 11 patents Ballistic armor manufacturing and continuous asynchronous software deployment platforms | — |
| 6 | CollabNet AI-powered platform for software development, delivery, and digital transformation | $60M | 142 mo ago | 136 | 1999 | Bill Portelli Co-Founder | JavaJettySalesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement+2 | 9 patents Automating distributed software design chains and on-demand build/test environment deployment. | — |
| 7 | Gradle Open source based suite of build tools solution | $31M | 58 mo ago | 19 | 2008 | Hans Dockter Founder & CEO | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+30 | — | — |
| 8 | BlueCedar Networks Developer of mobile app security platform integrating with app delivery tools | $27M | 90 mo ago | 41 | 2016 | Kevin Fox Chief Executive Officer | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+12 | — | — |
| 9 | Railway Platform offering continuous application deployment software | $24M | 51 mo ago | 8 | 2019 | Jake Cooper Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceCart FunctionalityWebflow+21 | — | 1 launch |
| 10 | Atomist Platform for automation of code deployment workflows | $22M | 106 mo ago | 8 | 2015 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Plutora Enterprise release management & testing environment management solutions provider | $14M | 116 mo ago | 33 | 2012 | Dalibor Siroky CEO & Co-Founder | Framer SitesSalesforceReact+15 | — | — |
| 12 | Datree Configuration management solution provider for Kubernetes | $11M | 79 mo ago | 23 | 2017 | — | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesSplide+26 | — | — |
| 13 | Cased Developer of AI agents that automate DevOps and infrastructure management | $11M | 38 mo ago | 6 | 2020 | Ted Nyman Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceTailwind CSS+9 | — | — |
| 14 | Zeet Platform offering continuous application deployment software | $6M | 48 mo ago | 15 | 2020 | Johnny Dallas Founder & CEO | WebflowStripeAmazon Web Services+25 | — | — |
| 15 | Containership.io Continuous delivery system for containers | $5M | 97 mo ago | 12 | 2014 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Koality Provider of digital marketing services focused on performance and results | $2M | 155 mo ago | 5 | 2012 | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Wasmer Platform offering compilers | $150K | 68 mo ago | 10 | 2018 | Syrus Akbary Nieto Founder & CEO | SentryNode.jsRadix UI+17 | — | — |
| 18 | Gauge Open source based dependency management software | $125K | 26 mo ago | — | 2024 | Caelean Barnes Co-Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+10 | 35 patents Remote monitoring and management of emergency fluid and power resources | — |
| 19 | Ninite Package management system | $125K | 219 mo ago | 8 | — | — | BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesZendesk+6 | — | — |
| 20 | Opsolutely Application deployment solution | $120K | 120 mo ago | 2 | 2015 | Kate Heddleston Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | Cisimple Continuous integration platform for mobile | $120K | 165 mo ago | — | 2012 | Kevin Rohling CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Build Tools companies in San Francisco
#1
Harness 🦄Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2017 · 145 employees$425Mraised▾
Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization. The platform offers continuous integration, continuous delivery, feature flags, and cloud cost management. It also provides service reliability management, security testing orchestration, and chaos engineering. The platform includes software engineering insights, continuous error tracking, and infrastructure as code management.
- Dec 2025Series E$200M
- Oct 2023Conventional Debt$150M
- Apr 2022Series D$175M
- Apr 2022Conventional Debt$55M
#2
Public · San Francisco, California · founded 2011 · 699 employees$435.2Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for software development, security, and delivery. The platform facilitates planning, source code management, and continuous integration and delivery. It offers application security testing, software supply chain security, and software compliance features. The platform supports various industries, including financial services, public sector, and telecommunications.
- Sep 2022Post IPO—
- Apr 2022Post IPO—
- Sep 2019Series E$268M
- Dec 2018Series D$20M
#3
CircleCI 🦄Series F · San Francisco, California · founded 2011 · 404 employees$315.5Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery. The platform offers automation, allowing software teams to ship code faster and more safely. It provides tools for developers, platform engineers, security engineers, and engineering managers. The platform supports various integrations, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.
- May 2021Series F$100M
- Apr 2020Series E$100M
- Jul 2019Series D$56M
- Jan 2018Series C$31M
#4
Netlify 🦄Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 295 employees$212Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for web application development and deployment. It offers tools for building, deploying, and scaling web applications. The platform includes features such as serverless functions, data storage, and image optimization. It supports various frameworks and integrates with development tools.
- Nov 2021Series D$105M
- Mar 2020Series C$53M
- Oct 2018Series B$30.1M
- Aug 2017Series A$12M
#5
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 63 employees$82Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform for software delivery and DevOps automation. The platform offers continuous integration, continuous delivery, feature management, infrastructure as code management, and chaos engineering. It facilitates security testing orchestration, supply chain security, and cloud cost management. The platform also provides AI test automation, AI SRE, database DevOps, artifact registry, and internal developer portal.
- Oct 2020Series C$40M
- Aug 2019Series B$28M
- Aug 2018Series A$10M
- 2017Seed$4M
#6
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 6 employees$10.5Mraised▾
Developer of AI agents that automate DevOps and infrastructure management. The agents integrate into existing CI/CD pipelines, addressing issues before production and managing rollbacks. They scan for drift, security gaps, and compliance issues, providing remediation. The agents optimize cloud spend and scale infrastructure, integrating with Terraform.
- Jun 2023Series A$8.3M
- Feb 2022Seed—
- Apr 2020Seed$2.2M
#7
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2008 · 19 employees$31.2Mraised▾
Open source based suite of build tools solution. The platform leverages acceleration technologies to optimize the software build and test process. The CI build cache allows developers to share and reuse the build and test outputs across teams. The platform offers failure analytics tools. It provides a dashboard that enables CI engineers to monitor performance and reliability and observe build behavior.
- Nov 2021Series C$27M
- Dec 2015Series A$4.2M
#8
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 8 employees$24Mraised▾
Developer of a software development tool intended to build applications instantly by using cloud infrastructure. The company's platform provides toolsets for a live development environment on the cloud and deals with deployments, observability, and clusters, enabling businesses to work on their core product and deploy it.
#9
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 1999 · 136 employees$60.1Mraised▾
AI-powered platform for software development, delivery, and digital transformation. This is a technology company providing solutions for enterprises to achieve their digital transformation goals. They offer a suite of products designed to improve agility, application security, continuous testing, and deployment automation. The platform provides AI-powered insights across the software development lifecycle, enabling teams to orchestrate software releases and maintain governance and compliance standards. They offer solutions for various industries, including government and financial services, focusing on secure, quality mobile applications and cloud transitions. Their offerings include AI strategy resources, DevOps tools, and various integrations to streamline workflows and enhance team collaboration. They provide services such as agile coaching, consulting, implementation, training, and customer support. This is a B2B SaaS company.
- Nov 2014Series C$20M
- Feb 2013Series C$2.5M
- May 2012Series C$4.5M
- Oct 2010Series C$6.3M
#10
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 15 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Platform offering continuous application deployment software. The features of the product include automatic deployment, application scaling, workflow management, code detection, infrastructure requirements, customizable resources, active maintenance, automatic monitoring, etc. The platform operates on a subscription-based pricing model.
- Sep 2022Seed$4.3M
- Jan 2022Seed$2M
#11
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 41 employees$27Mraised▾
Developer of mobile app security platform integrating with app delivery tools. The platform integrates with tools used in mobile app delivery flow. It adapts mobile apps to operating environments without requiring source code access. The company provides mobile app deployment by orchestrating release activities in unified deployment pipelines.
- Mar 2019Series B$17M
- Jul 2016Series A$10M
#12
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 8 employees$22Mraised▾
Atomist provides a platform for the automation of the code repository creation and the deployment of application workflows. The platform is built on the top of a Graph database and uses codebase, users, and usage patterns to understand the way people work. This is used to create contexts for code deployments and differentiate between minor and major releases so that the workflow can be automated. The platform can also be integrated with Slack for communication between the team members and tracking of the workflows. Available on a subscription basis.
- Nov 2017Series A$22M
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