Haystack

Delivery Analytics for Software Teams

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

About

We are bringing the competitive advantage data-driven engineering teams like Google have - to everyone else.

Our analytics platform plugs directly into developer tools like Github to provide insights on delivery speeds, bottlenecks, and risks that impact team velocity & developer happiness.

We're trusted by some of the world’s most innovative teams: Microsoft, The Economist, and Indiegogo and backed by Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Funders Club, and strategic angels (Founder @Optimizely, SVP Sales @Amplitude) .

Haystack is a culture of tinkering, learning, testing and iterating. We ship quickly and help our customers do the same. We're led by founded by two technical founders who have experienced this problem first-hand after scaling their startups from 0 to 100m+ users.

Recent News & Mentions

Jun 1, 2021FundingHaystack - Seed Oct 1, 2019FundingHaystack - Seed

Financial History

Haystack has raised $3.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $1.0M Seed in June 2021.

Total Raised

$3.0M

Valuation

N/A

Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Nov 1, 2025	Downstream	$8.0M Series A	—	Brick & Mortar Ventures, Founders' Co-op, Math Capital, Moshe Lifschitz
Aug 1, 2025	Nest Health	$13.0M Series A	—	8-Bit Capital, 8VC, Alumni Ventures, CRV, Mathias Schilling, Madrona Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Transformation Capital
Aug 1, 2025	Bench IQ	$5.0M Seed	—	Battery Ventures, iNovia Capital
Jul 1, 2025	Ambience Healthcare	$240.0M Series C	—	Accel, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Buckley Ventures, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Greylock, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Lux Capital, Matrix, Next Play Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Open AI Startup Fund, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Y Combinator, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Gokul Rajaram, Henry Kravis, Justin Mateen, Nico Rosberg, Paul Graham
Jun 1, 2025	Warp	$10.0M Series A	—	ACME Capital, Addition, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Basecamp Fund, Bee Partners, Blue Bear Capital, Bond, Contrary Capital, Craft Ventures, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Giant Ventures, Giza Polish Ventures, Greylock, Frederique Dame, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Klossy, LAUNCH, Lux Capital, Makers Fund, Maniv Mobility, Matrix, Menlo Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Hans Tung, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Slow Ventures, The General Partnership, The House Fund, Toyota Ventures, Tribe Capital, Ultratech Capital Partners, Ulu Ventures, UP.Partners, Venture Highway, Volition Capital, Workday Ventures, Y Combinator, Adam Back, Amjad Masad, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Bradley Horowitz, Catherine Lu, Ding Zhou, Drew Houston, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Emmett Shear, Gokul Rajaram, Henry Kravis, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kevin Weil, Kyle Vogt, Manish Chandra, Marc Benioff, Nico Rosberg, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Tony Xu
Jun 1, 2025	Impart Security	$12.0M Series A	—	8-Bit Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, Haun Ventures, LGF, Madrona Ventures, NEO, Hans Tung, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Amjad Masad, Gokul Rajaram, Ron Pragides, Ryan Sarver, Ryan Tedder
Jun 1, 2025	Morphik	$500K Seed	—	Alt Capital, Fuel Capital, Y Combinator
Jun 1, 2025	Golf	$500K Seed	—	—
Dec 1, 2024	Fiddler AI	$19.0M Series B	—	Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Greylock, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed India Partners, Lux Capital, March Capital, Matrix, Sorenson Ventures, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Henry Kravis, Nico Rosberg
Oct 1, 2024	Astrix Health	$2.0M Seed	—	David Lieb
Oct 1, 2024	Sapien	$11.0M Seed	—	Accel, Aleph VC, Alumni Ventures, Bam Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Betaworks Ventures, Browder Capital, Coatue, Company Capital, Corner Ventures, Craft Ventures, Davidovs VC, Divergence Ventures, First Round Capital, Frontline Ventures, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Kamran Ansari, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Insight Partners, Intuit Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lainy, LGF, LocalGlobe, MMC Ventures, NEO, Next Play Capital, Otherwise Fund, Point Nine Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Sarah Smith Fund, Seedcamp, Seguin Ventures, SOSV, SRB Ventures, Stellar Capital, Stride VC, Vera Equity, Vibe Capital, Bartek Pucek, Charlie Songhurst, Harsh Sinha, Julia Kagan, Karim Atiyeh, Max Mullen, Ron Pragides, Sahil Lavingia, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sri Batchu, Tekin Salimi, Tikhon Bernstam, Youcef Es-skouri, Zander Lurie
Oct 1, 2024	Pacific Fusion	$900.0M Series A	—	Addition, Adverb Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, Bond, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Commerce Ventures, Contrary Capital, DST Global, Expa, Floodgate, gener8tor, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Greylock, Idealab, Infinite Niches, Initialized Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Jetstream, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lakestar, LGF, Long Journey Ventures, Lux Capital, Matrix, Mohamad Makhzoumi, Next Level Ventures, Quiet Capital, Rethink Education, Saga, Sherpalo Ventures, Softbank Group, Sound Ventures, SV Angel, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Aaron Levie, Anne Wojcicki, Bradley Horowitz, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Emil Michael, Gokul Rajaram, Henry Kravis, Immad Akhund, Jim Pitkow, Kunal Shah, Mandeep Singh, Manik Gupta, Marc Benioff, Mato Peric, Max Mullen, Nico Rosberg, Omid Ashtari, Scott Banister, Tony Xu
Oct 1, 2024	Cartage	$2.0M Seed	—	Accel, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, Buckley Ventures, First Round Capital, Fuel Capital, Khosla Ventures, LGF, Maple VC, Next Play Ventures, Open AI Startup Fund, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi, Gokul Rajaram, Justin Mateen, Kulveer Taggar, Paul Graham, Ralph Gootee, Tom Blomfield, Tracy Young
Aug 1, 2024	Setpoint.io	$31.0M Series B	—	Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Emergence Capital, Floodgate, Foundamental, General Catalyst, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, Matrix, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Gokul Rajaram, Nico Rosberg
Jul 1, 2024	Axle Energy	$9.0M Seed	—	Accel, Addition, AlleyCorp, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Greylock, Jetstream, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, Matrix, Ann Bordetsky, Jeff Immelt, Planeteer Capital, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Voyager Ventures, Y Combinator, Bernhard Niesner, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Hanno Renner, Henrik Herr, Henry Kravis, Johannes Reck, Johann "Hansi" Hansmann, Manik Gupta, Nico Rosberg, Phoebe Wang, Rolf Schrömgens
Jun 1, 2024	Anterior	$20.0M Series A	—	Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bond, Flare Capital Partners, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, Matrix, Meritech Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Henry Kravis, Nico Rosberg
Jun 1, 2024	Roxom Global	$4.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Bolt, Cadenza Capital Management, Curie.Bio, Cygnus Capital, Draper Associates, Element Partners, Founders Fund, Lightbank, Mantis VC, Next Play Ventures, NXTP Labs, Tiger Global Management, David Marcus, Marcelo Sampaio, Oliver Jung, Paulo Silveira, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Rafael Larragoiti Lucas, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin, Sam Altman
Jun 1, 2024	GPTZero	$10.0M Series A	—	Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Contrary Capital, Drive Capital, Footwork, Founders Fund, Fuel Capital, Goodwater Capital, IrishAngels, Motivate Ventures, NextView Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Uncork Capital, Vista Venture Partners, Y Combinator
Apr 1, 2024	SESO	$26.0M Series B	—	Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Floodgate, Freestyle Capital, General Catalyst, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, Matrix, NFX, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Henry Kravis, Nico Rosberg
Mar 1, 2024	Nest Health	$4.0M Seed	—	8-Bit Capital, Alumni Ventures, CRV, Madrona Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Mar 1, 2024	Applied Intuition	$250.0M Series E	—	10100, 1confirmation, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Adverb Ventures, AirAngels, Amplo, Andreessen Horowitz, Chloe Sladden, Anti fund, Atomico, Base Partners, Bond, BoxGroup, Brainchild, C2 Investment, Catapult Capital, Coatue, Collab Capital, Commerce Ventures, Construct Capital, Daffy, Divergence Ventures, Dynamo Ventures, Electric Capital, Entrepreneur First, Expa, Founders Fund, Fuel Capital, General Catalyst, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Greylock, Hersh Interactive Group, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, InterWest, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, Lux Capital, MaC Venture Capital, Menlo Ventures, Rick Yang, New Form Capital, Next Play Ventures, No Label Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Outcast Ventures, Polychain Capital, Quiet Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Robot Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Group, Sound Ventures, SparkLabs Group, The Hit Forge, Thrive Capital, UpHonest Capital, Visionaire Ventures, Aaron Levie, Aston Motes, Balaji Srinivasan, Bradley Horowitz, Carmelo Anthony (Melo7 Tech Partners), Diego Berdakin, DJ Patil, Dylan Field, Erik Moore, Gokul Rajaram, Jim Pitkow, John Legend, Justin Mateen, Kevin Colas, Marc Benioff, Mark Pincus, Mike Krieger, Rick Wagoner, Sahin Boydas, Stani Kulechov, Thomas Tull, Vitalik Buterin
Mar 1, 2024	Synch	$3.0M Seed	—	8VC, Adverb Ventures, Alt Capital, Ben Taft's Genius Ventures, Construct Capital, Craft Ventures, Exponent Founders Capital, Aniq Kassam, First Round Capital, Fuel Capital, InterWest, LGF, Lux Capital, Matrix, Menlo Ventures, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Daniel Kan, Gokul Rajaram, Guillaume Luccisano, Liu Jiang, Nate Matherson, Peter Kazanjy, Rick Wagoner, Ron Pragides
Mar 1, 2024	Activeloop	$11.0M Series A	—	Alumni Ventures, Betaworks Ventures, General Catalyst, Kamran Ansari, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Next Play Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SRB Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Max Mullen, Ron Pragides, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sri Batchu, Zander Lurie
Feb 1, 2024	Ambience Healthcare	$70.0M Series B	—	Accel, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, Buckley Ventures, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Greylock, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Lux Capital, Matrix, Next Play Ventures, Open AI Startup Fund, Tribe Capital, Venture Highway, Bradley Horowitz, Elad Gil, Gokul Rajaram, Henry Kravis, Justin Mateen, Nico Rosberg, Paul Graham
Feb 1, 2024	Bench IQ	$2.0M Seed	—	Battery Ventures, iNovia Capital

Funding Rounds Raised

Date	Round	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Jun 1, 2021	$1.0M Seed		Goat Capital, Helium-3 Ventures, Immeasurable, Gabriel Jarrosson, James Park, Julie Zhuo, Matt Bellamy
Oct 1, 2019	$2.0M Seed		Bam Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Electric Ant, Fifth Wall, Science, Rashaun Williams

Financial History

Haystack has raised $3.0M across 2 funding rounds.

Total Raised

$3.0M

Valuation

N/A

Leadership Team

Key people at Haystack.

Leadership Team

Key people at Haystack.

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Haystack is a software delivery analytics platform designed to help product and engineering leaders streamline and accelerate software delivery operations. It integrates with developer tools like GitHub and Jira to provide real-time insights, risk detection, and comprehensive reporting on delivery processes. Its platform targets platform engineers, project managers, and leadership roles, enabling teams to identify early signs of delays and bottlenecks to improve on-time delivery rates. Haystack’s mission is to transform software delivery by reducing the industry-wide problem of project delays, which affect about 70% of software projects, thereby fueling business growth and trust[1][2][3].

For an investment firm, Haystack represents a company focused on the software development and delivery analytics sector, addressing critical operational challenges in engineering teams. Its product serves software teams in various industries, helping them improve velocity, reduce cycle times, and enhance developer happiness. The company has shown strong growth momentum, with customers like Microsoft and The Economist, and has demonstrated significant impact by decreasing cycle times by up to 70% for some users[2][6].

Origin Story

Haystack was founded in 2019 in San Francisco by two technical founders, Julian Colina (CEO) and Kan Yilmaz, who experienced firsthand the challenges of scaling software teams and delivering projects on time. Their background as entrepreneurs and engineers who scaled startups to over 100 million users informed their understanding of the delivery bottlenecks and inefficiencies in software development. The idea emerged from the need to bring the kind of data-driven engineering insights used by tech giants like Google to a broader audience. Early traction included acceptance into Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch and gaining high-profile clients, which validated the product’s value and market fit[1][2][4].

Core Differentiators

Product Differentiators: Haystack offers a comprehensive Software Delivery Ops platform that integrates deeply with tools like GitHub and Jira to provide actionable, real-time insights rather than relying on surveys or subjective productivity metrics. It focuses on early risk detection and bottleneck identification across the entire delivery lifecycle[1][3].

Developer Experience: Unlike tools that impose top-down metrics that can erode trust, Haystack fosters transparency and collaboration by ensuring all team members and executives see the same data, promoting shared understanding and engagement[3].

Speed and Impact: Users report dramatic improvements, such as reducing cycle times from 40 days to 3 days and decreasing cycle time by 70%, demonstrating the platform’s effectiveness in accelerating delivery[3][6].

Community and Culture: Haystack emphasizes a culture of rapid iteration, learning, and customer collaboration, shipping quickly and continuously improving based on user feedback[2][4].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Haystack rides the growing trend of data-driven software delivery and DevOps analytics, addressing the increasing complexity and scale of modern software development. The timing is critical as organizations face mounting pressure to deliver software faster and more reliably, with 81% of UK and 89% of US business decision-makers concerned about on-time software delivery[1]. Market forces such as the rise of remote and distributed teams, the proliferation of developer tools, and the need for operational transparency favor platforms like Haystack. By providing early warnings and actionable insights, Haystack influences the broader ecosystem by helping teams adopt best practices, improve engineering velocity, and ultimately deliver better products faster[1][3].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Haystack is poised to expand its influence by deepening integrations with developer tools and scaling its platform to serve larger and more diverse engineering organizations. Trends such as AI-driven analytics, increased automation in software delivery, and growing demand for developer experience improvements will shape its journey. As software delivery becomes a key competitive differentiator, Haystack’s role in enabling data-driven decision-making and operational excellence will likely grow, potentially positioning it as a standard tool for engineering leadership worldwide. Its continued focus on transparency and collaboration will help maintain trust and adoption as it scales[1][2][3].

Sources

Frequently Asked Questions

Who founded Haystack?

Haystack was founded in 2019 by Kan Yilmaz (Founder) and Julian Colina (Founder).

How much funding has Haystack raised?

Haystack has raised $3.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.

Who are Haystack's investors?

Haystack's investors include Goat Capital, Helium-3 Ventures, Immeasurable, Gabriel Jarrosson, James Park, Julie Zhuo, Matt Bellamy, Bam Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, Electric Ant, Fifth Wall, Science.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who founded Haystack?

Haystack was founded in 2019 by Kan Yilmaz (Founder) and Julian Colina (Founder).

How much funding has Haystack raised?

Haystack has raised $3.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.

High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Product Differentiators: Haystack offers a comprehensive Software Delivery Ops platform that integrates deeply with tools like GitHub and Jira to provide actionable, real-time insights rather than relying on surveys or subjective productivity metrics. It focuses on early risk detection and bottleneck identification across the entire delivery lifecycle[1][3].

Developer Experience: Unlike tools that impose top-down metrics that can erode trust, Haystack fosters transparency and collaboration by ensuring all team members and executives see the same data, promoting shared understanding and engagement[3].

Speed and Impact: Users report dramatic improvements, such as reducing cycle times from 40 days to 3 days and decreasing cycle time by 70%, demonstrating the platform’s effectiveness in accelerating delivery[3][6].

Community and Culture: Haystack emphasizes a culture of rapid iteration, learning, and customer collaboration, shipping quickly and continuously improving based on user feedback[2][4].