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Rollbar is a technology company.
Rollbar delivers a code-first observability platform, empowering engineering teams to confidently build and deploy reliable software. It offers real-time error logging and tracking, enabling developers to proactively identify and resolve issues across their software stack. Moving beyond reactive monitoring, Rollbar helps teams maintain high standards and accelerate development.
Brian Rue and Cory Virok founded Rollbar in 2012. Their insight stemmed from observing traditional error monitoring's reactive nature. They envisioned a solution providing superior control and continuous learning, allowing builders to ship robust applications without constant "firefighting." This principle guided Rollbar’s development.
The platform serves global software builders, from individual developers to large enterprises, facilitating rapid, dependable software delivery. Rollbar’s vision helps teams minimize risks, ensure swift recovery, and consistently produce resilient, high-performing applications. It aims for a future where software creation is efficient and inherently stable.
Rollbar has raised $17.3M across 4 funding rounds.
Rollbar has raised $17.3M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Rollbar has raised $17.3M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Rollbar's investors include Dmitry Galperin, Earlybird Venture Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Ali Kutay, Bain Capital, Blossom Street Ventures, Cota Capital, Long Light Capital, Patagonia Capital, Salil Deshpande, AngelList Syndicator, Kapor Capital.
Rollbar is a San Francisco-based technology company that builds a continuous code improvement platform, offering real-time error monitoring, debugging, and proactive triaging for software development teams.[1][2][3][4] It serves engineering managers, QA/testing teams, customer support, and developers across industries like financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, and government, solving the problem of reactive error firefighting by providing actionable insights, root cause analysis, and AI-assisted workflows to deploy high-quality software faster.[2][3][4][5] With roots as Ratchet.io, Rollbar has raised $17.45M in funding up to a Series B round in 2020, maintains a lean team of around 25-53 employees, and reports secondary market activity alongside peers like LaunchDarkly and Webflow, indicating sustained interest despite no recent public funding news.[1][3][4][5]
Rollbar was founded in 2012 by former Lolapps engineers Brian Rue (ex-CTO) and Cory Virok (early employee), initially as Ratchet.io, inspired by internal tools they used at Lolapps—a social gaming company that merged with 6waves.[3][4][6] Rue left Lolapps in March 2012 and started development in May, securing a pre-seed round of over $250,000 from investors like Mike Hirshland of Resolute.vc, Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics, and Arjun Sethi (former Lolapps CEO).[6] The idea emerged from frustration with inadequate error-tracking tools that lacked historical context, pushing teams into constant debugging rather than innovation; after nine months of private beta, it publicly launched in 2013 as a three-person San Francisco team.[2][6] Pivotal early traction came from its focus on developer needs, evolving into a global remote team with offices in Barcelona and Budapest, emphasizing trust, autonomy, and growth.[2][3]
Rollbar stands out in error monitoring through these key strengths:
Rollbar rides the wave of observability and DevOps maturation, where accelerating software release cycles demand tools beyond basic logging to predict and prevent issues amid complex, distributed systems.[2][4] Timing aligns with post-2010s cloud-native shifts and AI integration in devtools, as teams scale microservices and face exploding error volumes—Rollbar's real-time triaging counters this, much like competitors Sentry but with emphasis on code improvement over pure performance monitoring.[4] Market forces like rising developer productivity demands (e.g., in SaaS for education, government) and secondary trading interest (peers at $2B-$4B valuations) favor it, influencing the ecosystem by enabling faster innovation for users like Attribution and ReadyTech, reducing downtime in mission-critical apps.[1][7][9]
Rollbar's lean operation and sticky customer base (e.g., multi-year adoption) position it for steady growth in the $10B+ observability market, potentially via acquisition by a larger player like Datadog or expansion into full APM.[1][4] Trends like AI-driven debugging and edge computing will amplify its proactive edge, while remote-first culture supports scaling without heavy burn. As secondary markets heat up (peers trading at scale), expect funding renewal or exit; its focus on lasting software cements influence in empowering builders to ship reliably, echoing the vision that sparked it from Lolapps frustrations.[2][6]
Rollbar has raised $17.3M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $11.0M Series B in March 2020.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2020 | $11.0M Series B | Dmitry Galperin | Earlybird Venture Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Ali Kutay, Bain Capital, Blossom Street Ventures, Cota Capital, Long Light Capital, Patagonia Capital |
| Oct 1, 2017 | $2.0M Series A | Salil Deshpande | Earlybird Venture Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Ali Kutay, Cota Capital |
| Jan 1, 2016 | $4.0M Series A | AngelList Syndicator, Cota Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, Kapor Capital, Pear VC, Pioneer Fund, The Hit Forge, Uncorrelated Ventures, Ali Kutay, Eric Ries, Haroon Mokhtarzada, John Collison, Mike Greenfield, Steven Sinofsky | |
| Feb 26, 2013 | $250K Pre-Seed | Arjun Sethi, Hiten Shah, Michael Hirshland |