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Chef Software

Seattle, Washington, United States

2020 Revenue

$50M

Customers

750

Funding

$105M

Avg ACV

$66.7K

Team

266

Founded

2008

Chef Software Revenue & Funding (2020)

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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Chef Software Revenue

In 2020, Chef Software's revenue reached $50M.

Chef Software Revenue GrowthReported revenue / ARR over time$0$12.5M$25M$37.5M$50M$62.5M2008201020122014201620182020$0$50MSource: GetLatka.com
YearMilestoneSource
2020Chef Software Hit $50m revenue in August 2020
2008Launched with $0 revenue

Chef Software Valuation, Funding Rounds

Chef Software has not publicly disclosed its valuation. The company has raised $105M in total funding to date.

Chef Software has raised $105M in total funding across 5 rounds, with its most recent round in 2015.

Chef Software Capital Raised & ValuationCumulative capital raised and post-money valuation by roundCapital raised (cum.)Valuation$0$0$0.2$25M$0.4$50M$0.6$75M$0.8$100M$1$125M20082009201020112012201320142015Source: GetLatka.com
YearRoundAmountValuation% SoldSource
2015Funding round$40M--
2013Funding round$32M--
2012Funding round$19.5M--
2010Funding round$11M--
2009Funding round$2.5M--

Founders

Neeraj Agrawal

CEO

I joined Battery Ventures in 2000 and focus on investments in SaaS and internet companies across all stages. I spend my time working with my company founders to help them grow their businesses through all stages of growth. I was a founding investor in BladeLogic NASDAQ BLOG acquired by BMC and have invested in several other companies that have gone on to stage IPOs including Bazaarvoice NASDAQ BV Guidewire Software NYSE GWRE Marketo NASDAQ MKTO Omniture NASDAQ OMTR acquired by Adobe RealPage NASDAQ RP and Wayfair NYSE W. I have also invested in several Battery portfolio companies that have experienced MA events such as APlaceForMom acquired by Warburg Pincus Brightree acquired by ResMed Consona acquired by Vista Equity Partners Internet Brands acquired by Hellman Friedman and VSS Monitoring acquired by Danaher. I played key roles in several other Battery investments including Groupon NASDAQ GRPN ITA Software acquired by Google and Sabre NASDAQ SABR. My current investments include Amplitude Appboy AppDynamics BloomReach Catchpoint Chef Cohesity Coupa Glassdoor.com Nutanix Optimizely Pendo SmarterHQ Sprinklr StellaService Tealium and Yesware. For a full list of Battery s portfolio companies and exits please visit httpswww.battery.comour-companieslist.

Barry Crist

Chief Executive Officer

Barry Crist is listed as Chief Executive Officer at Chef Software.

Aaron De Caiman

Chief Executive Officer

Aaron De Caiman is listed as Chief Executive Officer at Chef Software.

Customers

Chef Software serves 750 customers.

Chef Software Employees & Team Size

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 Team GrowthReported headcount over time075150225300375200820102012201420162018202000266266Source: GetLatka.com
YearMilestoneSource
2020Reached 266 employees (December 2020)
2020Reached 250 employees (August 2020)
2020Reached 322 employees (June 2020)
2019Reached 317 employees (December 2019)
2018Reached 305 employees (December 2018)

Frequently Asked Questions about Chef Software

What is Chef Software's revenue?

Chef Software generates $50M in revenue.

Who is the CEO of Chef Software?

The CEO of Chef Software is Neeraj Agrawal.

How much funding does Chef Software have?

Chef Software raised $105M across 5 rounds.

How many employees does Chef Software have?

Chef Software has 266 employees.

Where is Chef Software headquarters?

Chef Software is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Data and Sources

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