When was Highlight founded?

Highlight was founded in 2020 and raised its 1st funding round 3 years after it was founded.

Where is Highlight located?

Highlight is headquartered in Seattle, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Highlight?

Jay Khatri of Highlight. They have also founded 1 company.

How many employees does Highlight have?

As of Dec 31, 2022, the latest employee count at Highlight is 35.

Is Highlight a funded company?

Highlight is a funded company, having raised a total of $8.5M across 2 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on 2023.

When was the latest funding round of Highlight?

Highlight's latest funding was a $***** Seed round on Aug 15, 2023, with participation from 12 investors.

Where does Highlight rank among its competitors?

Highlight ranks 14th amongst 363 active competitors, of which 54 are funded. It stands 11th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Lightrun, which secured $70M in Apr, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Highlight?

Highlight's top competitors include Datadog, Honeycomb and AppDynamics. Among them, Lightrun secured the most recent funding round in April, 2025.

Highlight - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Highlight is an acquired company based in Seattle (United States), founded in 2020 by Jay Khatri. It operates as a Provider of open source platform for web application monitoring and debugging. Highlight has raised $8.5M in funding from investors like Y Combinator, Craft Ventures and Afore Capital. The company has 363 active competitors, including 54 funded and 63 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Datadog, Honeycomb and AppDynamics.

Company Details

Provider of open source platform for web application monitoring and debugging. The platform offers session replay, error monitoring, logging, and tracing capabilities. It provides dashboards for visualizing observability data and supports self-hosting. The platform integrates with various frameworks and tools, focusing on compliance and security.

Website: highlight.io
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Email ID: *****@highlight.io

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2020

Location

Seattle, United States

Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$8.5M in 2 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Seed, Aug 15, 2023, $*****

Investors

Y Combinator & 12 more

Ranked

14^th among 363 active competitors

Employee Count

35 as on Dec 31, 2022

Similar Companies

Honeycomb & 442 more

Exit Details

Acquired by LaunchDarkly (Apr 23, 2025)

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Highlight got acquired by LaunchDarkly on Apr 23, 2025.

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Highlight has raised a total funding of $8.5M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2023. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on Aug 15, 2023 for $*****. 12 investors participated in its latest round. Highlight has 8 institutional investors and 5 angel investors.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Highlight:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Aug 15, 2023	2973323	Seed	5425224	2387417	3828341	6541141
2023	4876	Seed	4510	7872	Y Combinator	9680

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The founders of Highlight is Jay Khatri. Jay Khatri is the CEO of Highlight.

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

Jay Khatri: Co-Founder & CEO of Highlight.
Contact Info: 1 email address

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Highlight's employee count trend

Highlight has 35 employees as of Dec 22. The total employee count is 21.0% more than what it was in Dec 21. Here is Highlight's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Highlight include Datadog, Honeycomb and AppDynamics. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Highlight, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Datadog 2010, New York City (United States), Public	Provider of integrated platform for monitoring, security, and observability services	$147M	Index Ventures, OpenView & 19 others	80/100
2nd	Honeycomb 2016, San Francisco (United States), Series D	Cloud based application performance monitoring platform	$150M	Headline, Scale Venture Partners & 14 others	71/100
3rd	AppDynamics 2008, San Francisco (United States), Acquired	Cloud based application performance monitoring software provider	$240M	Altimeter Capital, General Atlantic & 21 others	69/100
4th	Komodor 2020, Rockville (United States), Series B	Provider of an autonomous AI SRE platform for Kubernetes management	$72M	Tiger Global Management, Accel & 15 others	68/100
5th	Sentry 2011, San Francisco (United States), Series E	Provider of application performance monitoring and error tracking software solutions	$217M	Accel, New Enterprise Associates & 8 others	66/100
6th	Pepperdata 2012, Sunnyvale (United States), Series B	Cloud based platform offering application performance management solutions	$20.8M	AME Cloud Ventures, Webb Investment Network ... & 14 others	65/100
7th	Axiom 2010, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Provider of observability and AI engineering platform for event data	$41.4M	Crane Venture Partners, Mango Capital & 4 others	64/100
8th	Embrace 2016, Culver City (United States), Series B	Provider of user-focused observability platform for mobile and web applications	$79.5M	New Enterprise Associates, Eniac Ventures ... & 27 others	64/100
9th	LogRocket 2016, Cambridge (United States), Series C	AI-powered platform for understanding and optimizing user experiences	$55M	Battery Ventures, Delta-v Capital & 3 others	63/100
10th	Lightrun 2019, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series B	Developer of a platform providing observability and debugging tools for developers	$115M	Insight Partners, Glilot Capital Partners ... & 5 others	62/100
14th	Highlight 2020, Seattle (United States), Acquired	Provider of open source platform for web application monitoring and debugging	$8.5M	Afore Capital, Day One Ventures & 11 others	57/100