When was Gremlin founded?

Gremlin was founded in 2016 and raised its 1st funding round 1 year after it was founded.

Where is Gremlin located?

Gremlin is headquartered in San Jose, United States. It is registered at San Jose, California.

Who is the current CEO of Gremlin?

Kolton Andrus of Gremlin. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Gremlin have?

As of Apr 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Gremlin is 63.

Is Gremlin a funded company?

Gremlin is a funded company, having raised a total of $26.8M across 2 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Series A round, raised on Dec 12, 2017.

When was the latest funding round of Gremlin?

Gremlin's latest funding was a $***** Series B round on Sep 28, 2018, with participation from 1 investor.

Where does Gremlin rank among its competitors?

Gremlin ranks 3rd amongst 84 active competitors, of which 24 are funded. It stands 9th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was InsightFinder, which secured $15M in Apr, 2026.

Who are the top competitors of Gremlin?

Gremlin's top competitors include PagerDuty, BigPanda and Resolve.ai. Among them, InsightFinder secured the most recent funding round in April, 2026.

Gremlin - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

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. The company has 84 active competitors, including 24 funded and 8 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like PagerDuty, BigPanda and Resolve.ai.

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/
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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

Series B, Sep 28, 2018, $*****

Investors

Redpoint Ventures & 3 more

Ranked

3^rd among 84 active competitors

Employee Count

63 as on Apr 30, 2026

Similar Companies

PagerDuty & 82 more

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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)	-

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	4792635	Series B	4437272	1558760	4075912	5526496
Dec 12, 2017	2413979	Series A	3055354	8070771	Index Ventures	Amplify Partners

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The 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.

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Gremlin's employee count trend

Gremlin has 63 employees as of Apr 26. Here is Gremlin's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Gremlin include PagerDuty, BigPanda and Resolve.ai. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Gremlin, ranked by Tracxn score:

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	Wellington, T. Rowe Price & 19 others	83/100
2nd	BigPanda 2012, Redwood City (United States), Series E	Cloud based IT infrastructure monitoring software	$340M	Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital & 14 others	72/100
3rd	Gremlin 2016, San Jose (United States), Series B	Provider of reliability platform for chaos engineering and disaster recovery testing	$26.8M	Index Ventures, Amplify Partners & 2 others	65/100
4th	Resolve.ai 2024, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Provider of an AI platform for incident resolution and cost optimization	$200M	DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners & 16 others	64/100
5th	xMatters 2000, San Ramon (United States), Acquired	Cloud-based incident management software provider	$88.3M	Goldman Sachs, JMI Management & 6 others	64/100
6th	NeuBird 2023, Redwood City (United States), Seed	Provider of agentic artificial intelligence for autonomous incident resolution solutions	$63.8M	Mayfield, M12 & 3 others	62/100
7th	incident.io 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Cloud based security and information management systems provider	$96.2M	Index Ventures, Insight Partners & 51 others	61/100
8th	InsightFinder 2015, New York City (United States), Series B	Provider of AI and IT observability solutions for enterprise organizations	$35M	Eight Roads Ventures, Silicon Valley Future Capital ... & 9 others	61/100
9th	CYGNVS 2021, Los Altos (United States), Series A	Platform for cyber crisis management	$55M	Andreessen Horowitz, Stone Point Capital & 3 others	59/100
10th	Rootly 2020, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Provider of an AI-native platform for on-call and incident management	$15.2M	XYZ Venture Capital, Renegade Partners & 9 others	58/100