Gremlin - About the company
Gremlin is a series B company based in San Jose (United States), founded in 2016 by Kolton Andrus and Matthew Fornaciari. It operates as a Provider of reliability platform for chaos engineering and disaster recovery testing. Gremlin has raised $26.8M in funding from Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures, with a current valuation of $*****. The company has 111 active competitors, including 26 funded and 8 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like PagerDuty, BigPanda and incident.io.
Company Details
Provider of reliability platform for chaos engineering and disaster recovery testing. The platform offers fault injection, reliability scoring, and dependency discovery. It also provides detected risks monitoring, failure flags, and reliability intelligence. Disaster recovery testing validates failover processes and incident response procedures. The platform helps modernize resilience practices and manage cloud compliance.
- Website
- www.gremlin.com/
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@gremlin.com, *****@gremlin.com
- Registered Address
- San Jose, California
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2016
Location
San Jose, United States
Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$26.8M in 2 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$***** as on Sep 22, 2020
Investors
Ranked
4th among 111 active competitors
Employee Count
59 as on Sep 30, 2026
Legal entities associated with Gremlin
Gremlin is associated with 1 legal entity given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GREMLIN INC. CIN: 811277279 , United States, Active | Dec 31, 2015 | - | 43 (As on Dec 31, 2018) | - |
Sign up to download Gremlin's company profile
Gremlin's funding and investors
Gremlin has raised a total funding of $26.8M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Dec 12, 2017. Its latest funding round was a Series B round on Sep 28, 2018 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Gremlin has 4 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Gremlin:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 28, 2018 | 4601753 | Series B | 4890678 | 2079787 | 4137992 | 9466691 |
Dec 12, 2017 | 3149343 | Series A | 4175534 | 5607766 |
Access funding benchmarks and valuations. Sign up today!View details of Gremlin's funding rounds and investors
Gremlin's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Gremlin are Kolton Andrus and Matthew Fornaciari. Kolton Andrus is the CEO of Gremlin.
Here are the details of Gremlin's key team members:
- Kolton Andrus: CEO & ex-Co-Founder of Gremlin. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Matthew Fornaciari: Founder and CTO of Gremlin.
View details of Gremlin's Founder profiles and Board Members
Gremlin's employee count trend
Gremlin has 59 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Gremlin's employee count trend over the years:
Uncover Gremlin's growth story! Sign up today!
Access Tracxn on any website
Install Tracxn ExtensionOur Google Chrome extension lets you view company details while browsing their websites
Gremlin's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Gremlin include PagerDuty, BigPanda and incident.io. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Gremlin, ranked by Tracxn score:
Get insights and benchmarks for competitors of 2M+ companies! Sign up today!
Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st |  PagerDuty 2009, San Francisco (United States), Public | Cloud based platform offering incident management software | $174M | 82/100 | |
2nd | BigPanda 2012, Redwood City (United States), Series E | Cloud based IT infrastructure monitoring software | $340M | 70/100 | |
3rd |  incident.io 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Cloud based security and information management systems provider | $96.2M | 66/100 | |
4th | Gremlin 2016, San Jose (United States), Series B | Provider of reliability platform for chaos engineering and disaster recovery testing | $26.8M | 61/100 | |
5th | xMatters 2000, San Ramon (United States), Acquired | Cloud-based incident management software provider | $88.3M | 63/100 | |
6th | Traversal 2023, New York City (United States), Series A | Developer of an AI platform for incident resolution and prevention | $53M | 63/100 | |
7th | Resolve AI 2024, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Provider of an AI platform for incident resolution and cost optimization | $200M | 63/100 | |
8th | NeuBird 2023, Redwood City (United States), Seed | Provider of agentic artificial intelligence for autonomous incident resolution solutions | $63.8M | 62/100 | |
9th | InsightFinder 2015, New York City (United States), Series B | Provider of AI and IT observability solutions for enterprise organizations | $35M | 61/100 | |
10th | Rootly 2020, San Francisco (United States), Series A | Provider of an AI-native platform for on-call and incident management | $15.2M | 59/100 |
Get insights and benchmarks for competitors of 2M+ companies! Sign up today!Looking for more details on Gremlin's competitors? Click here to see the top ones
Gremlin's Investments and acquisitions
Gremlin has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Gremlin
Here is the latest report on Gremlin's sector:
News related to Gremlin
Filter this listMedia has covered Gremlin for 1 event in last 1 year, It was about partnerships.
•
Gremlin and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Reliability Testing AccessibilityGlobeNewswire•Apr 21, 2026•Carahsoft, Gremlin
•
•
•
Gremlin Announces Automatic Service Discovery for More Targeted and Effective Chaos EngineeringBusiness Wire•Apr 27, 2021•Gremlin
•
•
Gremlin Releases “Scenarios” That Simulate Outages, Helping Companies Avoid Costly DowntimeGlobeNewswire•Sep 26, 2019•Gremlin
•
•
Catalyst Raises $15MM In Series A Funding Led By Accel, Helping Businesses Improve Customer Experience At ScaleBusiness Wire•Jul 30, 2019•Catalyst, Accel, Gremlin, Helpshift and 2 others
•
Gremlin Announces Free Chaos-Monkey-as-a-Service For Every Company Building Resilient Web ApplicationsBusiness Wire•Feb 27, 2019•Gremlin
•
Get curated news about company updates, funding rounds, M&A deals and others. Sign up today!Are you a Founder ?
FAQs about Gremlin
Explore our recently published companies
- GRUPO RELESA - Spain based, 1982 founded, Unfunded company
- Juniper - 2011 founded, Unfunded company
- PERFORMANCE AUTOMOTIVE AND DETAIL - United States based, 2015 founded, Unfunded company
- Euro1Workshop - United Arab Emirates based, 2024 founded, Unfunded company
- Unitech Water Solutions - Unfunded company
- Apus Systems - Dresden based, 2012 founded, Unfunded company
