Docker

Software development platform.

docker.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

201-500

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Docker is a developer platform company best known for the Docker Engine/Docker Desktop ecosystem and Docker Hub. It provides tools for building, shipping, running, testing, and securing containerized applications, with newer products including Docker Scout, Docker Build, Docker Debug, and Testcontainers integrations.

Primary product

Docker Desktop and the Docker platform (Docker Engine, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, Docker Build, Docker Debug)

Founded

2013

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California, United States

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Developer tools / containerization / cloud-native software

Offices

Palo Alto, California, United States

Business model

subscription

SaaS

enterprise software

open source plus commercial offerings

Funding

Stage

venture-backed private company

Total raised

$92.5M

Latest round

Series C · Mar 2018

Latest amount

$23M

Series B

Mar 2022 · Insight Partners

$23M

Series A

Nov 2019 · Benchmark Capital

$35M

Series C

Mar 2018

$23M

People & investors

Leadership

Don Johnson

Chief Executive Officer

Scott Johnston

Former CEO (departed Feb 2025)

Solomon Hykes

Founder

Benjamin Golub

Former CEO

Steve Singh

Former CEO

Founders

Kamel Founadi

Co-Founder

Sébastien Pahl

Co-Founder; Senior Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare

Investors

Work & culture

Public materials emphasize developer obsession, open source, and improving the developer experience across build, verify, run, debug, share, and test workflows.

Compensation

No public compensation policy found from primary sources in this search.

Product & market

Pricing

Freemium/open-source core plus paid subscriptions for teams and enterprise features

Differentiators

—Strong brand and mindshare around containers
—Integrated workflow across build, test, debug, security, and sharing
—Large developer user base
—Open-source ecosystem with commercial product layers
—Docker Hub distribution and Docker Desktop developer experience

Technology

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

Node.js

.NET

Python

GitHub Actions

AWS

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Customers

Developers

Developer teams

Businesses subscribing to paid Docker plans

Enterprises using Docker platform products

Competitors

Red Hat OpenShift

Google Kubernetes Engine

Mirantis

Podman

Kubernetes ecosystem developer tools

Anthos

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $50M+ ARR as of 2022; current revenue not publicly confirmed.

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Nov 2019

Docker sold its Docker Enterprise business to Mirantis and refocused on developer tools.

Source

Acquisition

Jun 2023

Docker acquired Mutagen to improve Docker Desktop performance and remote development.

Source

Acquisition

Dec 2023

Docker acquired AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers, and added its team to Docker.

Source

Other

Feb 2025

Docker announced a CEO transition: Don Johnson replaced Scott Johnston.

Source

Latest news

Docker AI Governance: Unlock Agent Autonomy, Safely

Docker blog · May 2026

Significant AI-platform launch introducing Docker AI Governance, a control layer for network, filesystem, credentials, and MCP tool use for agentic AI workflows.

Introducing MCP Catalog and Toolkit

Docker blog · Apr 2025

Major product/platform launch introducing Docker MCP Catalog and Toolkit, built with partners like Stripe, Elastic, Heroku, Pulumi, Grafana Labs, Kong, Neo4j, New Relic, Continue.dev, and others.

Docker Announces Don Johnson as New CEO, Succeeding Scott Johnston

Docker · Feb 2025

Docker named Don Johnson CEO effective Feb. 12, 2025.

Docker acquires AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers

Docker · Dec 2023

Docker acquired AtomicJar and integrated Testcontainers into its platform strategy.

Docker launches remote container builds, new debugging tools and more

TechCrunch · Oct 2023

Reported Docker product launches including Docker Build, Docker Debug, and Scout GA.

Jobs and careers at Docker

65 jobs at Docker

Senior Total Rewards Partner

Remote

General & Administrative

United States

1d ago

Remote

Full-time