Code with Jason / Buzzsprout · Jan 2026
Podcast interview with Steve Pike discussing dependency management, automated Rails upgrades, open-source upgrade strategy, and the role of AI in making upgrades safer.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Infield is a New York-based, remote-first open-source dependency management company that combines software automation with expert developers to help engineering teams safely plan, prioritize, and execute dependency upgrades without breaking production.
Primary product
Upgrade Path / dependency upgrade management platform
Founded
2022
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Open-source dependency management / software automation
Business model
managed service
self-serve SaaS
freemium
fixed-fee milestone services
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$5.9M
Latest round
Seed · Jan 2024
Latest amount
$3M
People & investors
Founders
Co-founder
Work & culture
Remote-first and inclusive, with employees spread across North and South America; the company emphasizes open source, learning new technologies, and working across generative AI, data pipelines, and modern web front ends.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
Free individual plan; paid team plans starting at $600/month; white-glove managed service; fixed-fee per milestone diagnostics/upgrades.
Differentiators
- —Combines automation with expert developers
- —Focuses on safe dependency upgrades and breaking-change remediation
- —Builds a living step-by-step upgrade plan
- —Uses LLMs plus changelog and GitHub issue data
- —Tracks risk and effort, not just vulnerabilities
- —Offers both managed service and self-serve software
- —Embeds with customer teams in Slack/Teams
- —Supports multiple languages/frameworks including Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
Technology
GitHub app
CLI
Ruby
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
Java (coming soon)
Large language models
Changelog ingestion
GitHub issues analysis
Upgrade path planning
Slack
Microsoft Teams
CI pipeline integration
Dashboard / dependency posture tracking
Customers
HealthSherpa
Alice Financial
Competitors
Dependabot
Renovate
Snyk
Tidelift
Depfu
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$250k–$1M estimated annual revenue (public estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
2.4K
Traffic estimate as of May 2024
Latest news
LinkedIn (Infield) · Oct 2025
Company post highlighting a newer engineering blog post about Rails 8 query comments and migration from marginalia to QueryLogs.
The New Stack · Jan 2024
Explains Infield’s data-driven upgrade planning, changelog and GitHub data ingestion, risk/effort prioritization, and human-assisted approach versus fully automated dependency tools.
TechCrunch · Jan 2024
Launch story covering Infield’s SaaS debut, $3M seed round, product approach, pricing, language support, and the company’s human-assisted AI angle.
PRNewswire · Jan 2024
Company announcement for the $3M seed round led by Foundation Capital, with YC, Firsthand Alliance, and angel investors participating; also states the company already had paying customers.
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