LaunchDarkly

Company 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

enterprise software subscriptions

custom enterprise contracts

Funding

Stage

late-stage venture

Total raised

$330.3M

Latest round

Series D · Aug 2021

Latest amount

$200M

Series D

Aug 2021 · Lead Edge Capital

$200M

Series C1

Jan 2020 · Bessemer Venture Partners

$54M

Series C

Mar 2019 · Bessemer Venture Partners

$44M

Series B

Dec 2017 · Redpoint Ventures and Vertex Ventures

$21M

Series A

Dec 2016 · DFJ

$8.7M

Seed

Jun 2015

$2.6M

People & investors

Leadership

Edith Harbaugh

Chief Executive Officer

Cameron Etezadi

Chief Technology Officer

Marilyn Miller

Chief People Officer

Sai Sriskandarajah

Chief Legal Officer

Robert O'Donovan

Chief Financial Officer

Scott Sheppard

SVP, Marketing

Jonathan Nolen

SVP, Product

Founders

John Kodumal

Co-founder and CTO

Investors

500 Global

Bessemer Venture Partners

Top Tier Capital Partners

Uncork Capital

Vertex Ventures

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

dental insurance

mental health benefits

flexible PTO

bonus targets

pay transparency policy

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

Ruby

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

TypeScript

Scala

React Native

Jenkins

GitHub

Jira

Google Cloud

Git

Asana

Databricks

OpenAI

ClickHouse

CockroachDB

Linux

macOS

Customers

Bayer / Climate FieldView

IBM

Atlassian

Intuit

GoPro

CircleCI

AppDirect

CMS

Recreation.gov / Booz Allen Hamilton

World Kinect

Admiral Insurance

Dunelm

Competitors

Statsig

Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (Split)

Optimizely

Flagsmith

ConfigCat

Unleash

PostHog

GrowthBook

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$100M-$150M

Estimated monthly visits

353.3K

Traffic estimate as of May 2026

support@launchdarkly.com +1-415-579-3275

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Feb 2025

LaunchDarkly announced the acquisition of Houseware, expanding warehouse-native experimentation and product analytics.

Source

Acquisition

Apr 2025

LaunchDarkly announced the acquisition of Highlight to deepen observability and guarded software releases.

Source

Latest news

LaunchDarkly Introduces New Release Observability, AI Configurations, and Analytics Capabilities to Help Developers Innovate Faster Without the Risk

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.

LaunchDarkly Acquires Highlight to Advance the Future of Guarded Software Releases

GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · Apr 2025

LaunchDarkly announced the acquisition of Highlight to deepen observability and guarded release workflows.

LaunchDarkly Announces Snowflake Native App for Data Warehouse Native Experimentation and Product Analytics

GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · Feb 2025

LaunchDarkly announced warehouse-native experimentation and the acquisition of Houseware, expanding product analytics capabilities.

LaunchDarkly Pioneers Guarded Releases Ushering in an End to Broken Release Management

GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · Nov 2024

LaunchDarkly launched Guarded Releases and Guardian Edition, emphasizing automated monitoring, performance thresholds, and auto-remediation.

LaunchDarkly Launches Dedicated EU Region to Support EU Data Residency and Compliance Needs

GlobeNewswire / LaunchDarkly · Oct 2024

LaunchDarkly launched a dedicated EU region in Frankfurt to satisfy EU data residency and compliance requirements.

Jobs and careers at LaunchDarkly

52 jobs at LaunchDarkly

Enterprise Acquisition Account Executive

Remote

Sales

Remote - US; Oakland, California, United States

Today

Remote

Full-time