VictorOps is a technology company.
VictorOps has raised $35.0M across 4 funding rounds.
VictorOps has raised $35.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
VictorOps was a Boulder-based technology company that built an incident management platform for DevOps teams, centralizing alerts from monitoring tools, automating on-call schedules, and enabling real-time collaboration to resolve IT incidents quickly.[1][2][3] It served engineering and operations teams at software-driven organizations struggling with fragmented alerts, downtime, and inefficient response workflows, solving problems like alert floods by merging duplicates, routing notifications, and integrating with tools such as Nagios, New Relic, and PagerDuty.[1][5] The platform reduced human error and response times, powering faster innovation in high-stakes environments. VictorOps raised over $33 million in funding before its $120 million acquisition by Splunk in June 2018, after which it became Splunk On-Call, integrated into Splunk's Observability Suite.[3][4][6]
Founded in 2012 by tech veterans Todd Vernon (CEO), Vince Lujan, Mark Papageorge, and others including Bryce Ambraziunas and Dan Jones, VictorOps emerged from founders' firsthand frustrations with outdated incident response tools like pagers amid the rise of DevOps practices.[1][2][5] Operating from Boulder, Colorado, the team targeted the shift toward continuous software deployments—where code changed hourly—creating a collaborative platform to streamline alerting and resolution.[3][5] Early traction built through integrations and partnerships, culminating in $33.7 million raised, including a $15 million Series B in 2016 from investors like Shea Ventures and Costanoa Ventures; this momentum led to Splunk's acquisition, aligning with prior collaborations.[4][5][6]
VictorOps rode the DevOps and AIOps wave in the early 2010s, as companies shifted to microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and always-on software, amplifying downtime costs in competitive markets.[1][5] Its timing capitalized on exploding data volumes overwhelming human operators, influencing the ecosystem by popularizing modern on-call management over pagers and setting standards for incident automation that Splunk scaled globally.[3][4] Post-acquisition, it bolstered Splunk's IT operations portfolio—enhancing monitoring with collaboration—amid forces like cloud-native apps and AI-driven observability, helping teams prevent issues via analytics and continuous learning.[4][5][6]
As Splunk On-Call, VictorOps' legacy endures in Splunk's (now Cisco-owned) observability tools, poised for growth in AI-powered incident prediction amid rising complexity from edge computing and multi-cloud environments.[1][3] Trends like generative AI for root-cause analysis and zero-trust security will amplify its role, evolving influence toward proactive, autonomous operations that minimize outages. This positions it as a foundational piece in the "Platform of Engagement," driving DevOps teams to innovate without reactive firefighting—echoing its founding mission to tame chaos in software-driven business.[4][5]
VictorOps has raised $35.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
VictorOps's investors include American Express Ventures, Audrey Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Calibrate Ventures, Chemistry VC, Costanoa Ventures, Emergence Capital, Foundry Group, Ann Winblad, Jackson Square Ventures.
VictorOps has raised $35.0M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $15.0M Series B in December 2016.