Foxglove is a technology company.
Foxglove has raised $55.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Foxglove has raised $55.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Foxglove is a San Francisco-based technology company founded in 2021 that builds observability and development tools to accelerate robotics engineering.[1][3] Its core product, Foxglove Studio, is an open-source visualization and diagnostics platform for inspecting robotics sensor data like images, point clouds, and time series in customizable 2D/3D environments, serving developers in automotive, defense, logistics, manufacturing, and other sectors to debug, analyze, and iterate faster on autonomous systems.[1][2][3] The company has raised $18.7M initially, followed by a $40M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners, achieving 8x user growth as of late 2022 with over 3,000 users and enterprise customers like Anduril, Dexterity, and Wayve.[1][2]
Foxglove addresses fragmented tooling in robotics development, enabling teams to manage multimodal data (e.g., sensor streams, camera feeds) through interactive dashboards, timeline playback, and real-time collaboration, which speeds up building reliable robots at scale.[2][3][4]
Foxglove was co-founded in 2021 by Adrian Macneil (CEO, former Director of Infrastructure at Cruise and Director of Engineering at Coinbase) and Roman Shtylman (CTO, former Software Engineer at Cruise and Coinbase), who identified robotics tooling gaps during their time at Cruise developing autonomous vehicles.[1][2][3] Frustrated by clunky, outdated tools for handling complex sensor data and workflows, they launched Foxglove to create unified, high-performance observability platforms, starting with Foxglove Studio as open-source to benefit the broader community.[1][3]
Early traction came quickly: by October 2022, it reported 3,000+ cloud users, 8x active user growth year-over-year, and a $15M raise highlighted in TechCrunch for robotics dev infrastructure.[1] A pivotal $40M Series B in 2025 from Bessemer Venture Partners fueled expansion, drawing on parallels to cloud infra like Twilio.[2]
Foxglove rides the surge in robotics and Physical AI, where multimodal data volumes explode amid advances in autonomy for defense, manufacturing, and logistics—mirroring cloud's infrastructure boom with Twilio-like tools automating dev workflows.[2] Timing is ideal as robotics GDP potential grows (projected massive economic impact), but legacy tools lag; Foxglove modernizes this by enabling faster iteration, reducing deployment risks in unpredictable real-world settings.[1][3]
It influences the ecosystem by open-sourcing core tech, onboarding 3,000+ developers, and powering leaders like Anduril, accelerating the shift from siloed to standardized robotics stacks and lowering barriers for new entrants.[1][2]
Foxglove is primed to dominate robotics infra as Series B capital scales its platform for enterprise autonomy, with trends like embodied AI, edge computing, and defense spending amplifying demand.[2] Expect deeper integrations, AI-driven analytics, and expansion into adjacent Physical AI (e.g., marine, agriculture), potentially capturing Twilio-esque market share as robotics hits mainstream.[2][3]
Its Cruise-honed edge positions it to redefine dev velocity, helping teams "build robots that change the world" amid a tooling renaissance—watch for IPO trajectory as user growth compounds.[1][3]
Foxglove has raised $55.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Foxglove's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Kyle Vogt, Tobias Lutke, Seven Seven Six.
Foxglove has raised $55.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $40.0M Series B in November 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2025 | $40.0M Series B | Bessemer Venture Partners, Kyle Vogt, Tobias Lutke | |
| Oct 1, 2022 | $15.0M Series A | Seven Seven Six |