Grafana Labs
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
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Company mission
Grafana's mission is to unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Employees
1001+
HQ Location
Financial District, New York, NY
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Observability is an essential part of software development, and dashboards are used to track the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. For developers, spending unnecessary time on tasks other than programming in order to navigate between different dashboards in order to find the latest information is very annoying and a waste of valuable time.
Grafana works closely with clients to develop customizable observability platforms that aim to make observability more efficient. Examples of features that the startup provides include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. The company has over 1M active Grafana instances with approx 10 million global users, and has more than 2,000 paying customers including the likes of Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal and Sony.
Whilst Grafana provides free plans offering a uniform and simplified package of tools, the Grafana Enterprise Stack charges businesses monthly to deliver customized observability of an infrastructural stack. To continue its success, the company's plan is to continue developing Grafana in ways that meet the needs of its user base, such as continuing to improve functionality with each model so users can share their Grafana dashboards with the greater open source community.
Total funding - $535.2m
Last 2 fundraises
Aug 2021
$220m
SERIES C
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
This company has top investors
Company benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation, national holidays and sick leave annually
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) match in the US, and pension in Sweden and the UK
- Global Employee Assistance Program
- Complimentary subscription to Headspace
- Work from home opportunities
- $1,500 learning and development stipend & Udemy subscription
- Health coverage for our colleagues in the US and Sweden
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🇺🇸 US benefits
Company values
- Share openly and default to transparency - We share anything and everything we can — some might even call us over-sharers, and we’re OK with that. We want to ensure that Grafanistas have all the context they need to make smart, informed decisions in their daily work
- Respectfully empowered - We encourage our team members to be autonomous — this is essential for a distributed team. Freedom and empowerment are built on respect for one’s commitments and colleagues. We default to action. We value team members who take the initiative to get things done, ask when they need help, and dive into the job with both feet
- OSS is in our DNA - We have a big tent philosophy. We work with competitors and value interoperability. Decisions at Grafana are made with the long-term health of the company in mind. We aren’t distracted by short-term gains. We understand that our commercial success as a company is linked to our users’ success with our software
- High Say/Do ratio - We care about the say/do ratio, and for all our math friends out there, we like to see a good 1:1 ratio here. We do what we promise for each other, customers, and users, and we are personally accountable for delivering on our commitments. We dislike indecision: An imperfect or controversial decision is better than no decision. Debates are won with data and reason, not job titles
- Seek diverse perspectives - Each and every one of us prioritizes an open and inclusive culture at Grafana Labs, and we strive to bring diverse perspectives to the table to come up with the best ideas. We’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay, and to do their best work. We believe this will create the best results: Diversity drives innovation, and that innovation drives our success
- Progress over perfection - We should all aim to do our best, but if perfection is the goal, we’ll probably never produce anything. Instead, we determine requirements to make something great and work hard to hit them. What can be squeaked out as an MVP at 60%? What actually needs to be done closer to 90%? From there, we iterate. This requires more than talent to succeed; it requires grit and determination. We want to get a great product out to our customers now and continue to iterate on it with fresh ideas and innovation. We’re a startup; we’re far from perfect. Get super comfortable with things not being perfect, while continuing to hold high standards for yourself and the team
- Help each other thrive - Supporting each other, our users, and our customers is a priority and core part of what we do. We pitch in where needed and do what it takes to get things done, even if it isn’t necessarily our job to do so. We win together, as one global team
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Founders
Raj Dutt
(CEO)Founder and CEO at Voxel, Senior VP at Internap. Current Board Member at NSONE Inc.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Project Lead)Degree in Computer Science at Malardalen University. Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay. Founder at Coding Instinct.
Anthony Wood
(CTO)Many years of experience in system engineering. Most recently worked at Visa and Internap Network Services.
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