Gradle Inc.

What Gradle Inc. does

Gradle Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco that develops the Gradle Build Tool, the most widely used open source build system for the Java and Android ecosystems, alongside Develocity, a commercial developer productivity platform. Develocity provides an observability and acceleration layer across the software delivery lifecycle, combining build caching, test distribution, ML-driven test selection, flaky test detection, failure analytics, and build provenance attestation. The company pioneered the Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) practice and supports an open source contributor community spanning more than 50 projects including Spring, Kotlin, Jenkins, Maven, and Quarkus.

The company monetizes Develocity via annual per-developer subscription contracts, with pricing tied to the number of monthly active developers interacting with the platform. Gradle combines a product-led growth motion (free Build Scan service, free trial with engineering support) with an enterprise field sales motion targeting large organizations, supplemented by an authorized reseller channel. Named customers include Netflix, Microsoft, Spotify, DoorDash, Tableau, Revolut, Hinge, Paxos, Cash App, and a Top 3 Global Investment Bank, spanning financial services, consumer tech, data and analytics, and industrial verticals.

Gradle has raised approximately $54.7 million across five funding rounds from 2014 to 2021, including a $27 million Series C in November 2021 led by Triangle Peak Partners. The company acquired Triplequote in February 2023 to extend Develocity into the Scala developer community via the sbt build system. Founders Hans Dockter (CEO) and Adam Murdoch (CTO) continue to lead the company.

Name

Gradle Inc.

Legal name

Gradle Inc.

Website

https://gradle.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Gradle Inc. develops the open source Gradle Build Tool and the commercial Develocity platform, providing build acceleration, test optimization, and observability for enterprise software development teams using Java, Android, and Scala.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Developer Productivity Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Developer Tooling & SDK Platforms (BPAMAOAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Release Engineering & Environment Management (BPAEAKAH), DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering (CI/CD, IaC, Containers) (EDABAFAC)

Keywords

• Build automation tool
• Developer productivity platform
• Build observability software
• Continuous delivery tools
• Open source build tool

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Develocity Enterprise Subscription: Annual subscription per user model based on number of monthly active developers. Pricing is personalized and quote-based, with users defined as those who interact with Develocity or contribute code to source repositories with builds connected to Develocity.
2. Free Build Scan Service: Free tier service for individual developers to run Build Scans and get basic analytics, serving as a top-of-funnel acquisition channel for Develocity enterprise customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Gradle Inc. develops and maintains the open-source Gradle Build Tool, one of the most widely used build systems in the world and the primary build tool for Android developers, and commercializes Develocity, a developer productivity platform that provides observability and acceleration across the software delivery lifecycle through Build Cache, Predictive Test Selection, Test Distribution, Build Scan, Failure Analytics, Flaky Test Detection, Performance Insights, and Provenance Governor.

Product overview

Gradle Inc. offers Develocity as a unified developer productivity platform combining observability and acceleration technologies. The platform includes core products: Develocity (primary platform), Build Scan (detailed build analytics), Develocity 360 (comprehensive dashboard), and specialized modules for Failure Analytics, Flaky Test Detection, Develocity Analytics, and Performance Insights for observability. Acceleration is provided through Universal Cache, Predictive Test Selection (ML-powered), and Test Distribution. The company also maintains the open-source Gradle Build Tool and acquired Triplequote to support the sbt/Scala ecosystem. Training resources include DPE University, while Provenance Governor addresses supply chain security. Pricing is annual subscription-based per user.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Develocity: Developer productivity platform providing observability and acceleration layer across the software lifecycle. Formerly known as Gradle Enterprise.
• Build Scan
• DPE University

Products and services

• Develocity Develocity is the company's primary commercial developer productivity platform providing observability and acceleration across the software delivery lifecycle. It combines build and test acceleration technologies (Build Cache / Universal Cache, Test Distribution, Predictive Test Selection) with toolchain observability (Build Scan, Failure Analytics, Flaky Test Detection, Develocity Analytics, Performance Insights, Develocity 360) and supply chain security (Provenance Governor). It is sold as an annual subscription per monthly active developer with personalized quote-based pricing, dedicated onboarding, and free trial.
• Gradle Build Tool Gradle Build Tool is one of the most widely used open-source build systems in the world and the primary build tool for Android developers, serving as the foundational open-source technology that Develocity observes and accelerates.
• Build Scan Build Scan is a build analytics service that captures detailed information for every build, enabling developers to quickly fix problems and debug performance issues. It is available as a free standalone service and is also bundled into Develocity, serving as a product-led growth acquisition channel for the enterprise platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• Netflix saves 280,000+ hours per year with faster builds and tests
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability7 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• TriplequotecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 February 2023Swiss-based software development technology provider acquired by Gradle to expand developer productivity solutions and support the Scala developer community, particularly through the sbt build system.
• Apache Software FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPlatinum Sponsor and Infra Services provider. Gradle provides sponsored Develocity instances to Apache open source projects.
• Kotlin FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember since founding by Google and JetBrains. Gradle sponsors Kotlin projects with free Develocity instances.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• CircleCI: CircleCI is a CI/CD platform that competes with Develocity in the build and test acceleration layer for enterprise engineering teams; both target the same buyer (DevOps/Platform Engineering leaders) with overlapping value propositions around faster pipelines and test insights.
• Jenkins: Jenkins is the long-standing open-source CI/CD server that many Gradle/Develocity customers also use; it competes at the build orchestration layer and Develocity explicitly integrates with it as both a complement and a competitor for build visibility.
• Harness: Harness is a CI/CD and DevOps platform with explicit build/test acceleration capabilities (including caching and AI-driven test selection) targeting the same enterprise platform engineering buyers as Develocity.
• Bazel: Bazel is Google's open-source build system (and a Gradle Products Partner) that competes for the same large-enterprise build-tool mindshare, particularly for monorepo and polyglot codebases where Develocity also operates.
• Apache Maven: Maven is the long-established open-source Java build tool that Develocity now supports and accelerates; as the dominant prior-generation JVM build system, it is a primary ecosystem Gradle must coexist with and convert onto its commercial platform.

Broad incumbents

• GitHub Actions: GitHub Actions is the integrated CI/CD service bundled with GitHub, the dominant source-control platform; it competes for the same enterprise DevEx budget and could absorb build-acceleration, caching, and test-optimization features directly into its platform.
• GitLab: GitLab is an integrated DevOps platform offering source control, CI/CD, and security testing; it competes for enterprise DevEx budgets and offers pipeline acceleration features that overlap with Develocity's Build Cache and Test Distribution.
• JFrog: JFrog provides artifact management and DevOps tooling (Artifactory, Pipelines) for enterprise software delivery; it overlaps with Develocity at the build-to-release layer and competes for similar platform engineering and security buyers.
• Atlassian (Bitbucket Pipelines): Atlassian's Bitbucket Pipelines offers integrated CI/CD within the broader Atlassian DevOps suite; it competes for enterprise build/test budgets and has the scale and incumbency to bundle acceleration features over time.

Emerging players

• Sourcegraph: Sourcegraph provides code intelligence and code search across large codebases and is increasingly positioning around AI-assisted developer productivity; it is adjacent to Gradle's DPE practice and targets the same enterprise platform engineering buyer with overlapping observability use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gradle
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCvClhveoEjokKIuBAsSjEwQ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gradle
• Facebookfacebook.com/gradleinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors7 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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