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Chef is a leader in Continuous Automation software, an innovator in cloud-native operations and one of the founders of the DevOps movement. Chef works with more than a thousand of the most innovative companies around the world to deliver their vision of digital transformation, providing the practices and platform to deliver software at speed. It's flagship platform, Chef Automate, unifies infrastructure and applications work and enables enterprise organizations to rapidly and securely build, deploy and manage any application, legacy or modern, in any environment. Its Habitat application automation product supports an ever-widening array of application release scenarios, enabling teams to 'build, deploy and manage' any app, anywhere. It is ideally suited to 'Lift, Shift and Modernize' initiatives as enterprises seek to find a unified way to ship all of their apps - from monoliths to microservices, bare metal to containers and datacenter to cloud. InSpec, designed to enable compliance at velocity to accelerate DevSecOps, is the first step in Chef's 'Detect, Correct, Automate' approach to cloud migration and continuous automation. It helps organizations maintain an up-to-date view of compliance status in production, detect security issues long before they reach production and reduce risk while delivering applications faster. Chef open source enables users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring that configuration policy is flexible, versionable, testable and human readable. Servers managed by Chef are continuously evaluated against their desired state, ensuring that configuration drift is automatically corrected, and configuration changes are universally applied. Used in concert, Chef products do more, better and faster to enable cross-functional development, operations and security teams to develop, deploy and manage software in the cloud than any other DevOps product suite available today., Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines
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In 2020, Chef Software's revenue reached $50M. Since its launch in 2008, Chef Software has shown consistent revenue growth.
Chef Software reached a $150M valuation in 2025, set during its M&A Offer round.
Chef Software has raised $105M in total funding across 5 rounds, with its most recent round in 2015.
| Year | Round | Amount | Valuation | % Sold | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | M&A Offer | - | $150M | - | |
| 2015 | Funding round | $40M | - | - | |
| 2013 |
Chief Executive Officer
Barry Crist is listed as Chief Executive Officer at Chef Software.
Chief Executive Officer
Aaron De Caiman is listed as Chief Executive Officer at Chef Software.
Chief Marketing Officer
Marketing executive with broad experience in all core marketing functions product marketing communications PRAR digital demand generation biz dev business planning and strategy constantly looking for the latest and greatest big technical product area to bring to market. Specialties Developer Platform and Tools including .NET Visual Studio PHP Python everything Web marketing product planning biz dev prar rich client platforms mobility web video designer tools designer audience developer audience Media servers codecs drm Advertising platformsstrategy Cloud Platforms Azure AWS and Google Cloud Platform marketing automation digital marketing demand generation field marketing and campaigns.
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Chef Software serves 750 customers.
Chef Software employs approximately 266 people as of 2026, down from 317 in 2019, including 33 sales reps that carry a quota. It serves 750 customers that rely on its solutions.
Chef Software generates $50M in revenue.
The CEO of Chef Software is Neeraj Agrawal.
Chef Software raised $105M across 5 rounds.
Chef Software has 266 employees.
Chef Software is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Chef Software operates across multiple industries. Browse revenue, funding, and growth data for Chef Software in each sector below.
All figures on this page are taken directly from interviews or are estimates from public sources and proprietary models. Not financial advice. Read full disclaimer.
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Valuation
$150M
2020 Revenue
$50M
Customers
750
Funding
$105M
Avg ACV
$66.7K
Team
266
Founded
2008
| Year | Milestone | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Chef Software Hit $50m revenue in August 2020 | |
| 2008 | Launched with $0 revenue |
| Funding round |
| $32M |
| - |
| - |
| 2012 | Funding round | $19.5M | - | - |
| 2010 | Funding round | $11M | - | - |
| 2009 | Funding round | $2.5M | - | - |
Chief Technology Officer
I am an executive whose focus is on bringing an outside-in approach to product design and development. I believe that people teams and ideas are the most important tools for success. I believe that the best product always wins in the end. I believe in bold moves and big ideas. At Chef Software I am focused on helping the most enduring and transformative companies to become fast efficient and innovative software-driven organizations by pushing the boundaries of software design and execution across our organization and the global Chef communities.
Chief Financial Officer
Strategic CFO with focus on leading emerging technology companies to scale. I help growth companies have great IPOs or exits. As chief financial officer of Chef Software Evan Fein oversees the companys finance accounting legal and corporate development activities. He led Chef through its successful acquisition by Progress Software in October 2020. Evan brings more than 25 years of financial management experience to Chef Software having led several public and private equity financings and numerous debt financings. Prior to Chef he served as CFO of Impinj from 2000 to 2018 where he led the company through a successful IPO and follow-on raising more than 100M. Evan began his career as general manager of operations at T-Mobile from 1995 to 2000 where he led financial planning and corporate development activities. Evan serves as a board member for the Washington Technology Industry Association WTIA and the University of Washington Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking. He previously served on the board of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center and The Technology Alliance. Evan serves as a board advisor to numerous technology companies. He is also an active angel investor. Evan has received numerous financial industry accolades. Most recently he was awarded the 2019 Most Innovative CFO by Armanino. Evan founded the Seattle Tech CFO professional group in 2011 which now consists of 100 Seattle based CFOs from the regions most innovative companies. Evan earned a bachelor s degree in mathematics from the University of Washington and a master s degree in business administration from the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
| Year | Milestone | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Reached 266 employees (December 2020) | |
| 2020 | Reached 250 employees (August 2020) | |
| 2020 | Reached 322 employees (June 2020) | |
| 2019 | Reached 317 employees (December 2019) | |
| 2018 | Reached 305 employees (December 2018) |
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