Haystack · Dec 2023
Official launch post for Haystack's Software Delivery Ops Platform; describes research on on-time delivery, real-time delay detection, and the Git/Jira-based workflow.
Delivery Analytics for Software Teams
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Haystack is a San Francisco-based delivery-ops / engineering-analytics platform for product and engineering leaders. It plugs into Git and Jira to surface delivery metrics, risk alerts, team health reports, and AI-generated release notes. Public sources disagree on the founding year (2019 on YC/company profiles vs. 2020 in a 2021 press release), so I use 2019 here.
Primary product
Software delivery operations / engineering analytics platform
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Engineering analytics / software delivery ops
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$1.2M
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2021
Latest amount
$1.2M
Investors
Haystack presents itself as a culture of tinkering, learning, testing, and iterating, with a bias toward shipping quickly and using objective data instead of subjective status-check culture.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public YC job posts show remote engineering roles at roughly $3K-$7K per month and a remote US marketing role at $3K-$8K per month. Eligibility varies by role; some postings say US citizenship/visa only while others say visa not required.
Pricing
Per-member subscription with annual commitment; 14-day free trial; custom enterprise pricing for larger teams.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$3M estimated ARR
Estimated monthly visits
26.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Haystack · Dec 2023
Official launch post for Haystack's Software Delivery Ops Platform; describes research on on-time delivery, real-time delay detection, and the Git/Jira-based workflow.
Forbes · Dec 2023
Forbes profiles CEO Julian Colina and the company's push to expand beyond its seed-stage analytics platform for software delivery performance.
Haystack · Nov 2021
Announces an enterprise offering, says revenue was growing about 35% month over month, and adds more advanced reporting and deployment-tracking features.
Nasdaq · Jun 2021
Covers Haystack's $1.2M seed round and early customer claims, including use by teams at GoDaddy, Microsoft, The Economist, Indiegogo, and Truebill.
Hacker News · Mar 2021
YC launch post describing Haystack's GitHub-driven analytics, early customer claims, and the founders' thesis around delivery bottlenecks and team velocity.