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 Mar 31, 2026, the latest employee count at Dagger is 17.

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 15th amongst 116 active competitors, of which 36 are funded. It stands 11th 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 CircleCI. Among them, Harness secured the most recent funding round in December, 2025.

Dagger - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Dagger is a series A company based in Sacramento (United States), founded in 2017 by Solomon Hykes, Sam Alba and Andrea Luzzardi. It operates as a Platform offering application continuous deployment software. Dagger has raised $30.4M in funding from Redpoint Ventures. The company has 116 active competitors, including 36 funded and 13 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Vercel, Harness and CircleCI.

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

15^th among 116 active competitors

Employee Count

17 as on Mar 31, 2026

Similar Companies

CircleCI & 79 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	4324210	Series A	2165470	7817788	4322516	9316840
Oct 05, 2021	2601360	Seed	7628910	4094153	9120361	6609028

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

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.
Sam Alba: Co-Founder of Dagger and founder of 1 other company.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Andrea Luzzardi: 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 17 employees as of Mar 26. Here is Dagger's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Dagger include Vercel, Harness and CircleCI. 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	81/100
2nd	Harness 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series E	Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization	$614M	IVP, Goldman Sachs & 30 others	76/100
3rd	CircleCI 2011, San Francisco (United States), Series F	Provider of a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery	$316M	Owl Rock, IVP & 19 others	70/100
4th	A10 Networks 2004, United States, Public	Provider of application delivery, security, and centralized management and analytics solutions	$118M	Mitsui, Summit Partners & 9 others	69/100
5th	Copado 2013, Chicago (United States), Series C	Provider of DevOps platform for Salesforce releases, testing, and compliance	$329M	Insight Partners, Lead Edge Capital & 9 others	66/100
6th	Buildkite 2013, Fitzroy (Australia), Series B	Provider of a continuous integration platform for software development teams	$41.3M	OpenView, One Ventures & 4 others	65/100
7th	Codefresh 2014, Mountain View (United States), Acquired	Cloud based software delivery platform	$42M	Viola Ventures, UpWest & 9 others	64/100
8th	Rocket Software 1990, Waltham (United States), Acquired	Provider of continuous application delivery and hybrid cloud solutions	$96.9M	D. E. Shaw Group, Prospect Capital & 1 others	63/100
9th	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 ... & 16 others	63/100
10th	Skytap 2006, Seattle (United States), Acquired	Cloud based continuous application delivery management solution	$128M	OpenView, Goldman Sachs & 8 others	59/100
15th	Dagger 2017, Sacramento (United States), Series A	Platform offering application continuous deployment software	$30.4M	ACE & Company, Redpoint Ventures & 9 others	54/100