State of Developer Tools Funding 2026

8 active investors and 24 funded companies in Developer Tools. Most active: GIC, Index Ventures, N47. Concentrated in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY.

Developer Tools accounts for 84 tracked companies with verified cap-table data, 84 of which disclose round sizes totalling $19B. The median disclosed raise is $96M, and the largest is Anysphere at $3B, ahead of Chaos ($1B) and Cognition ($1B).

The names that recur most often on these developer tools cap tables are Accel (9 companies), Insight Partners (8 companies), Sequoia Capital (8 companies), Y Combinator (7 companies), GV (7 companies), Kleiner Perkins (6 companies). By latest disclosed round, the market skews Series B (26), Series A (20), Series D (13), Series C (13).

Best funded Developer Tools companies

  1. Anysphere — $3B (latest: Series D)
  2. Chaos — $1B (latest: Series D)
  3. Cognition — $1B (latest: Series A)
  4. Knock — $900M (latest: Series C)
  5. Replit — $878M (latest: Series D)
  6. Vercel — $863M (latest: Series F)
  7. Temporal Technologies — $650M (latest: Series D)
  8. ClickHouse — $640M (latest: Series D)
  9. Cribl — $590M (latest: Series E)
  10. Harness — $570M (latest: Series D)
  11. Coralogix — $550M (latest: Series F)
  12. Postman — $400M (latest: Series D)
  13. Confluent — $375M (latest: Series E)
  14. LaunchDarkly — $350M (latest: Series D)
  15. Algolia — $334M (latest: Series D)

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