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How Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy grew Pulumi to $17.3M revenue with a 123 person team in 2024.

Developer of a cloud-native programming platform intended to define, deploy and manage cloud apps and infrastructure. The company's platform delivers multi-cloud apps using containers, serverless and managed cloud infrastructure and services using familiar languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go, enabling developers to achieve maximum productivity, unify DevOps practices and bring code to the cloud faster.

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Pulumi Revenue

In 2024, Pulumi's revenue reached $17.3M. The company previously reported $7.6M in 2024. Since its launch in 2017, Pulumi has shown consistent revenue growth.

Pulumi Revenue GrowthReported revenue / ARR by year$0$4M$8M$12M$16M$20M20172018201920202021202220232024$0$1M$5M$17MSource: GetLatka.com
YearMilestone
2024Pulumi Hit $17.3m revenue in November 2024Source
2024Pulumi Hit $7.6m revenue in October 2024
2023Pulumi Hit $5.3m revenue in December 2023
2021Pulumi Hit $1.4m revenue in April 2021
2017Launched with $0 revenue

Pulumi Valuation, Funding Rounds

Pulumi has not publicly disclosed its valuation. The company has raised $57.5M in total funding to date.

Pulumi has raised $57.5M in total funding across 3 rounds, with its most recent round in 2020.

Pulumi Capital Raised & ValuationCumulative capital raised and post-money valuation by roundCapital raised (cum.)Valuation$0$13M$25M$38M$50M$63M20172018201920202017 cumulative: $0 • 2017 Founded: $02018 cumulative: $5M • 2017 Founded: $0 • 2018 Funding round: $5M2018 cumulative: $20M • 2017 Founded: $0 • 2018 Funding round: $5M • 2018 Funding round: $15M2020 cumulative: $58M • 2017 Founded: $0 • 2018 Funding round: $5M • 2018 Funding round: $15M • 2020 Funding round: $38M$58M2017 Founded: $0 valuationSource: GetLatka.com
YearRoundAmountValuation% Sold
2020Funding round$37.5M--
2018Funding round$15M--
2018Funding round$5M--

Pulumi Employees & Team Size

Pulumi employs approximately 123 people as of 2026, up from 116 in 2023.

Pulumi has 123 total employees in different roles and functions and 6 sales reps that carry a quota.

Pulumi Team GrowthReported headcount over time03060901201502017201820192020202120222023202400123123Source: GetLatka.com
YearMilestone
2024Reached 123 employees (December 2024)
2024Reached 116 employees (October 2024)
2023Reached 116 employees (December 2023)
2022Reached 97 employees (December 2022)
2021Reached 61 employees (December 2021)
2021Reached 45 employees (April 2021)

Founder / CEO

Joe Duffy

Founder and CEO of Pulumi, a startup in Seattle. Pulumi's cloud engineering platform helps developers and infrastructure teams collaborate to build, ship, and manage modern cloud applications and infrastructure. Pulumi is open source, with an easy-to-use SaaS for teams. Before Pulumi, he was Director of Technical Strategy and Engineering at Microsoft, spanning developer and cloud tools, programming languages, and advanced technologies. He created the Compiler and Language Group to bring together all language, IDE, compiler, and static analysis products, across many languages (C++, C#, Visual Basic, F#), platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android), and architectures (x86, x64, ARM32, ARM64). In addition to building and managing a world-class team, he remained hands-on with product strategy, architecture, quality, and engineering. In this role, he led efforts to drive more open source across Microsoft, including stewarding policies and initiating the effort and building the team to open source .NET and take it cross-platform. He was previously Architect and Development Manager for a research operating system, Midori, and created its developer platform and its programming language. he launched, built, and led a team that delivered .NET concurrency, parallel, and asynchronous programming models, advanced safe systems programming in Windows, and rearchitected key aspects Microsoft's internal engineering systems, including source control, package management, and better internal collaboration. He have been a software professional for over 20 years and have over 90 patents. He have written 2 books and enjoy speaking at conferences. His interests include developer tools, of course, but he love all technologies, particularly cloud and distributed computing. Nothing brings him more joy than building amazing teams to create innovative technologies together that solve impactful customer problems.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Pulumi

What is Pulumi's revenue?

Pulumi generates $17.3M in revenue.

Who founded Pulumi?

Pulumi was founded by Joe Duffy.

Who is the CEO of Pulumi?

The CEO of Pulumi is Joe Duffy.

How much funding does Pulumi have?

Pulumi raised $57.5M.

How many employees does Pulumi have?

Pulumi has 123 employees.

Where is Pulumi headquarters?

Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Source Attribution

Source: all data was collected from GetLatka company research and founder interviews. Revenue, funding, team, and customer figures are presented as company-reported or GetLatka-estimated metrics where the profile data identifies them that way.

Company data last updated .

Pulumi Revenue 2024: $17.3M ARR, $57.5M Raised