GERMANY – Checkly, a Berlin, Germany-based provider of an active monitoring and testing platform for modern DevOps teams, raised $2.25m in seed funding.
The round was led by Accel with participation from Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Instana; Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel (formerly Zeit); and Ott Kaukver, former CTO of Twilio. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. Founded in 2018 by Tim Nolet, Hannes Lenke, and Timo Euteneuer, Checkly provides a SaaS based active reliability platform for modern DevOps teams to monitor their APIs and web applications. The solution serves cross-functional DevOps teams and supports a modern technical stack based on Javascript and Open Source. It integrates into the development workflow and uses Google’s Puppeteer framework to test software. Built-in as a Chrome extension, the platform has over 18,000 users and 6.7k GitHub stars. 28/04/2020
