When was Dagger founded?

Dagger was founded in 2017 and raised its 1st funding round 4 years after it was founded.

Where is Dagger located?

Dagger is headquartered in Sacramento, United States.

How many employees does Dagger have?

As of Aug 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Dagger is 15.

Is Dagger a funded company?

Dagger is a funded company, having raised a total of $30.4M across 2 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Oct 05, 2021.

When was the latest funding round of Dagger?

Dagger's latest funding was a $***** Series A round on Mar 30, 2022, with participation from 8 investors.

Where does Dagger rank among its competitors?

Dagger ranks 26th amongst 184 active competitors, of which 38 are funded. It stands 10th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Harness, which secured $200M in Dec, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Dagger?

Dagger's top competitors include Vercel, Harness and A10 Networks. Among them, Harness secured the most recent funding round in December, 2025.

Dagger - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Platform offering application continuous deployment software. It helps to build CI or CD pipelines and test the pipeline locally. It offers to run the same pipeline, and thereby eliminating the need to rewrite the pipeline. It allows users to add custom actions and reuse pipelines on different platforms. It also helps to build multi platform pipelines.

Website: dagger.io
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Founded Year

2017

Location

Sacramento, United States

Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$30.4M in 2 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series A, Mar 30, 2022, $*****

Investors

Redpoint Ventures & 10 more

Ranked

26^th among 184 active competitors

Employee Count

15 as on Aug 31, 2026

Similar Companies

A10 Networks & 93 more

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Dagger has raised a total funding of $30.4M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Oct 05, 2021. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Mar 30, 2022 for $*****. 8 investors participated in its latest round. Dagger has 5 institutional investors and 6 angel investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Dagger:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Mar 30, 2022	7968272	Series A	3699359	9938367	6867669	8350976
Oct 05, 2021	3224185	Seed	3690766	6124861	2342716	6520566

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The founders of Dagger are Solomon Hykes, Andrea Luzzardi and Sam Alba.

Here are the details of Dagger's key team members:

Solomon Hykes: Co-Founder of Dagger and founder of 1 other company. They are also an angel investor in 26 startups.
Andrea Luzzardi: Co-Founder of Dagger and founder of 1 other company.
Sam Alba: Co-Founder of Dagger and founder of 1 other company.
Contact Info: 1 email address

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Dagger's employee count trend

Dagger has 15 employees as of Aug 26. Here is Dagger's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Dagger include Vercel, Harness and A10 Networks. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Dagger, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Vercel 2015, Covina (United States), Series F	Provider of cloud infrastructure and developer tools for web applications	$863M	Accel, GIC & 30 others	82/100
2nd	Harness 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series E	Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization	$614M	Goldman Sachs, ServiceNow & 30 others	79/100
3rd	A10 Networks 2004, United States, Public	Provider of application delivery, security, and centralized management and analytics solutions	$118M	Sprout Capital Partners, Summit Partners ... & 10 others	70/100
4th	CloudBees 2010, San Jose (United States), Series F	Provider of software delivery platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery	$241M	Lightspeed Venture Partners, Delta-v Capital ... & 19 others	70/100
5th	CircleCI 2011, San Francisco (United States), Series F	Provider of a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery	$316M	Owl Rock, NextEquity Partners & 21 others	69/100
6th	Copado 2013, Chicago (United States), Series C	Provider of DevOps platform for Salesforce releases, testing, and compliance	$329M	Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures & 9 others	66/100
7th	Codefresh 2014, Mountain View (United States), Acquired	Cloud based software delivery platform	$42M	Viola Ventures, UpWest & 9 others	63/100
8th	Rocket Software 1990, Waltham (United States), Acquired	Provider of continuous application delivery and hybrid cloud solutions	$96.9M	The D. E. Shaw Group, Prospect Capital & 1 others	62/100
9th	Akuity 2021, Sunnyvale (United States), Series A	Provider of enterprise software delivery platform powered by artificial intelligence solutions	$25M	Lead Edge Capital, Decibel & 1 others	59/100
10th	Skytap 2006, Seattle (United States), Acquired	Cloud based continuous application delivery management solution	$128M	OpenView, Goldman Sachs & 8 others	59/100
26th	Dagger 2017, Sacramento (United States), Series A	Platform offering application continuous deployment software	$30.4M	Redpoint Ventures, ACE & Company & 9 others	41/100