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Waydev

The Engineering Intelligence Platform | DORA, SPACE, DX, CORE 4

waydev.co
HQ: Menlo Park, CA, USA
11-50
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

Waydev is a San Francisco-based software engineering intelligence platform for developer productivity, measuring DORA, DX, SPACE, and AI adoption/ROI from data in a team's existing engineering stack.

Primary product

Waydev AI / software engineering intelligence platform

Founded

2017

Headquarters

2021 Fillmore St #34, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA

Team size

20-30

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Software engineering intelligence / developer productivity analytics

Offices

2021 Fillmore St #34, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA

Business model

B2B SaaS
annual subscription per active contributor
enterprise contracts
free trial / proof of concept

Funding

Stage

pre-seed

Total raised

$120K

Latest round

Pre-Seed · Dec 2020

Latest amount

$120K

People & investors

Leadership

Alex Circei

CEO & Co-founder

Valentin Buzea

CTO & Co-founder

Smaranda Nistor

Chief Marketing Officer

Investors

Scale Asia Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public-facing materials emphasize a data-driven, customer-driven, low-micromanagement culture that values fast iteration, engineering transparency, and practical AI-native product work.

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Public YC job postings show compensation signals such as $50K-$140K base for Head of Sales and $50-$250/hour for Head of Growth, plus equity/stock options; some roles specify US citizen/visa-only eligibility.

Benefits

competitive salary
stock options
remote roles available
direct collaboration with the founder/CEO

Product & market

Pricing

Annual billing per active contributor, with tiered plans and custom enterprise pricing

Differentiators

  • —AI-native engineering intelligence
  • —Measures DORA, SPACE, DX, and AI adoption/impact/ROI
  • —Turns engineering data into board-ready evidence and real-time dashboards
  • —Integrates with existing Git, Jira, CI/CD, and calendar tools
  • —Waydev Agent enables natural-language analysis
  • —Enterprise options include SSO/RBAC and self-hosted/on-prem deployment
  • —Claims not to store code repositories, only metadata after analysis
  • —Supports measurement of human engineers plus AI agents

Technology

GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Azure DevOps
Jira
Slack
Microsoft Teams
React
Vue.js
Laravel
PHP
JavaScript
MySQL
HTML
Git
AWS
Cursor
Claude
Copilot

Customers

American Express
Dropbox
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Caterpillar
Capgemini
Genpact
Tata Group
PwC
Citi Ventures
Sovos

Competitors

Jellyfish
LinearB
Code Climate
Faros AI
DX
GitPrime
Swarmia
Codacy
Machinify
InsightFinder AI

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M-$10M

Estimated monthly visits

40K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

success@waydev.co650-449-4492

Signals & risks

Other
Jul 2020

Waydev disclosed a security incident involving unauthorized GitHub OAuth token use; the company revoked tokens, warned that some repository data may have been cloned, and said personal details such as emails and names may have been exposed, but passwords were not retrieved.

Source

Latest news

Nine Hard Years: Why We Rebuilt Waydev for the AI Era

Waydev · Jul 2026

Explains the company’s rebuild into an AI-native engineering intelligence platform, its bootstrapped path, and the rationale for shifting from static dashboards to AI-driven signals and agentic workflows.

How to Measure AI ROI on Your Engineering Team

Waydev · Mar 2026

Frames Waydev’s approach to measuring whether Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools actually improve delivery, productivity, and ROI.

From AI Adoption to Real Capacity Planning: What's New in Waydev

Waydev · Jan 2026

Announces product updates including expanded AI adoption tracking, stronger privacy controls, improved dashboards, and group-based team management.

Introducing Resource Allocation - Visualize Costs & Efforts!

Waydev · Dec 2025

Launches a resource allocation capability that maps engineering effort and cost across initiatives, products, and teams using existing toolchain data.

Waydev AI: Where Engineering Intelligence Becomes Conversational

Waydev · Oct 2025

Product launch article for Waydev AI, positioning the product as a conversational interface for engineering intelligence and AI adoption analysis.

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