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Sentry Announces $16M Series B Round with NEA and AccelSAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sentry, the only APM for developers, announced a $16M Series B funding round today, led by existing investors NEA and Accel. Unlike traditional monitoring focused on systems insights, Sentry enables modern software developers to directly and proactively resolve code issues anywhere in the application. With Sentry, companies cut time to resolution for application errors from five hours to five minutes. This latest round of funding supports the company’s exponential growth with more than 9,000 paying customers, tens-of-thousands of engineering orgs and a half-million developers using Sentry to turn errors into simple iteration. “Sentry’s growth is a testament to the now-universal truth that app users everywhere expect a flawless experience free of bugs and crashes. Poor user experience kills companies,” said Dan Levine of Accel. “In order to keep moving forward as quickly as possible, product teams need to know that customers will never leave because of a broken app update. Sentry lets every developer build software that is functionally error-free.” Named a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star, Sentry has also appointed several key executives to its management team, including VP of Sales Derek Sorkin, formerly Director of Sales at GitHub; VP of Infrastructure Vlad Cretu, formerly Head of Engineering, Hipchat Server and Data Center, at Atlassian; VP of Marketing Ryan Goldman, formerly Head of Marketing at SignalFx; and VP of Engineering Ben Vinegar, promoted from Head of Product Engineering. Sentry also opened its first Europe office in Vienna, Austria, led by Principal Engineer Armin Ronacher, the creator of popular development frameworks Flask and Jinja2. Co-founded in 2008 by David Cramer and Chris Jennings, Sentry’s goal has been to limit the impact of incidents so that every developer could focus on what they do best: building software that improves customers’ lives. Sentry is now used by 40% of the Fortune 100, and its vision of modern application development and delivery aligns well with its industry-leading partners: “Developers should not lose valuable time due to basic investigation and triage of issues in production,” said Lori Lamkin, Director of Program Management, Visual Studio Team Services, at Microsoft. "We’re thrilled to have Sentry as a DevOps partner, sharing Microsoft’s commitment to open source and helping teams collaborate and achieve more with modern development practices.” “Sentry and GitHub are uniquely aligned: we’re both committed to a vibrant open source community, we want developers to do more of what they love, and we know that better code requires iteration,” said Matt Colyer, Director of Product Management at GitHub. “Best-in-breed monitoring is a must for modern development teams. Wide adoption and deep GitHub integrations through our Marketlace make Sentry an obvious partner for us.” Introducing Sentry 9 “Sentry has long believed that the line between developing production code and fixing production code is blurring,” said David Cramer. “Modern engineering teams know that faster issue resolution has value to their workflow and to the user’s experience. We built Sentry to make incidents easier to identify, manage and remediate with the least possible disruption to development productivity and business continuity. We are excited to see our momentum in this space.” About Sentry About NEA About Accel Additional Information Contact Erica Lee StrategicLee Inc. [email protected] 415 359-7322 |