Acquisition
Feb 2025LaunchDarkly announced the acquisition of Houseware, expanding warehouse-native experimentation and product analytics.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
LaunchDarkly is a feature management and runtime control platform that helps software teams safely release code and control AI agent behavior in production using feature flags, experimentation, observability, and guardrails.
Primary product
Feature management / runtime control platform for code and AI agents
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Oakland, California, United States
Team size
500-600
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Feature management / release management / developer tools
Offices
Oakland, California, United States (1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1100)
London, UK (The Work Project, 1 Leadenhall St.)
Business model
B2B SaaS
usage-based SaaS
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Marilyn Miller
Chief People Officer
Chief Legal Officer
Work & culture
LaunchDarkly publicly emphasizes respect and integrity, teamwork over hierarchy, openness, collaboration, inclusion, psychological safety, and a learning/growth mindset. Its hiring and culture content repeatedly frames the company as humble, open, collaborative, respectful, and kind, with a strong emphasis on blamelessness and employee resource groups.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public signals point to a pay-transparency-oriented employer: LaunchDarkly states it follows pay transparency rules as a federal contractor, job postings ask about visa sponsorship needs, and third-party company profiles describe RSUs, benefits, and bonus targets. Public salary bands were not clearly surfaced in the sources reviewed.
Benefits
restricted stock units (RSUs)
health insurance
vision insurance
Product & market
Pricing
Hybrid SaaS pricing with a free trial, usage-based pricing for client-side MAU / AI runs, and custom enterprise pricing for larger deployments.
Differentiators
- —Runtime control for code and AI agents in production
- —Feature flags plus experimentation, observability, and AI agent control in one platform
- —CodeControl and AgentControl product lines
- —Large developer-focused SDK surface and integrations
- —Enterprise governance features such as workflows, approvals, roles, and auditability
- —Security and compliance posture including SOC 2 Type II and ISO certifications
- —Low-latency global flag delivery architecture
- —Ability to change behavior without redeploying code
Technology
Java
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$100M-$150M
Estimated monthly visits
353.3K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Apr 2025LaunchDarkly announced the acquisition of Highlight to deepen observability and guarded software releases.
SourceLatest news
GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · May 2025
Galaxy 2025 product news expanded Guarded Releases, AI Configs, warehouse-native experimentation, and product analytics, including stronger release observability and rollback controls.
GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · Apr 2025
LaunchDarkly announced the acquisition of Highlight to deepen observability and guarded release workflows.
GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · Feb 2025
LaunchDarkly announced warehouse-native experimentation and the acquisition of Houseware, expanding product analytics capabilities.
Open Positions
34 jobs at LaunchDarkly
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