Shippable

The company established itself in the DevOps market, providing a platform to automate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This addressed a critical need for software development teams to streamline workflows and accelerate the process of getting code from a developer's machine into production. Shippable's platform was designed to defragment the often-complicated toolchains involved in software delivery by offering a unified, integrated solution. It catered to a wide range of clients, from individual developers to large enterprises, involved in shipping software, including Development, Test, Ops, and Security teams.

Shippable's core product was a CI/CD automation platform built to support modern, cloud-native technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Its key features included release management, multi-cloud capabilities, and a declarative pipeline language (expressed in YAML), allowing teams to define and manage their entire software delivery process as code. The platform provided a single-pane-of-glass view, offering real-time visualization of the entire workflow, which helped in quickly identifying and resolving bottlenecks. Revenue was generated through a subscription-based model. Shippable offered flexible deployment options, including a hosted SaaS product, an on-premises server installation, and a hybrid model called Custom Nodes.

After raising a total of $10.5 million in funding from investors like Madrona Venture Group and Founders' Co-op, Shippable was acquired by JFrog in February 2019. The acquisition was a strategic move by JFrog, a major player in the DevOps space, to integrate Shippable's CI/CD capabilities into its own platform, aiming to provide a more complete, end-to-end DevOps solution for their customers. Following the acquisition, the Shippable team and its technology were incorporated into JFrog's offerings.