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Shippable, a startup with tools to help developers deploy correctly functioning code fast, has landed an $8 million funding round.
The new cash, announced today, will help Shippable develop its capabilities beyond just testing code in a cloud. The startup recently begun to focus on selling its service for companies to use in their own data centers, and now Shippable can ensure it wins and keeps this type of higher-value deals.
“It’s especially enterprise-driven sales,” cofounder and chief executive Avi Cavale told VentureBeat in an interview. “It definitely requires a lot more resources than we have.”
What’s more, other startups in the continuous-integration (CI) realm, including CircleCI, CloudBees, and CodeShip, have been picking up funding.
Many developers have become interested in Docker containers that package up application code and that can be transported from one server environment to another with no code changes. Shippable, like fellow CI startup Drone.io, standardized around Docker containers earlier this year, making it potentially less time-consuming than, say, the Jenkins open-source CI server.
Even the company that developed Docker — also named Docker — has made an acquisition in the CI area.
One might think that Docker could supercharge the CI process. But no.
“Actually, Docker increases the need for CI,” Cavale said. Splitting up an application into multiple pieces, or containers, has serious implications; it’s no longer about just deploying an entire application in a single virtual machine sitting on a physical server, Cavale explained. Which means Docker-friendly Shippable could be arriving at the right place at the right time.
Based in Seattle, Shippable started in February 2013 and today employs 14 people. Cavale would like to see his company’s engineering team double.
Madrona Venture Group led the round. Vulcan Capital, Divergent Ventures, and Founders’ Co-Op also participated. To date Shippable has raised $10.1 million.
