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PagerDuty funding, valuation and investors
Incident management platform for on-call alerting and response.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series C
$43.8M · April 2017
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$44M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
public
public · San Francisco, California, USA
Investors in latest funding
Overview
PagerDuty orchestrates incident response for engineering teams: on-call schedules, alerting, escalation policies, and postmortems. Integrates with monitoring tools, Slack, and ITSM systems. Founded in 2009, it went public on NYSE (PD) in 2019. a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners participated in growth rounds including Series C ($43.8M, 2017).
Why PagerDuty is interesting
Defined modern DevOps on-call — a16z and Bessemer backed pre-IPO; NYSE: PD since 2019 as SRE practices went mainstream.
Product & use cases
PagerDuty ingests alerts from Datadog, AWS, Splunk, and hundreds of integrations, routes them to on-call engineers via phone/SMS/push, and coordinates incident war rooms.
- On-call rotation management for SRE teams
- Incident escalation when monitors fire
- Status page and stakeholder communication during outages
- Post-incident analytics and reliability metrics
Key facts
- Series C (Apr 2017): $43.8M with Bessemer and a16z — PagerDuty press
- IPO (2019): NYSE ticker PD
- Founded by Alex Solomon, Andrew Miklas, Josh Liebman
Funding history (newest first)
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Deep integration ecosystem and brand synonymous with on-call before cloud incumbents added overlap features.
Incident management is partially commoditized inside observability suites. PagerDuty competes as vendor-neutral orchestration layer with enterprise ITSM hooks. Public market values recurring seat-based DevOps spend.
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Opsgenie (Atlassian) direct
Bundled with Jira/Confluence; strong for Atlassian shops.
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Splunk On-Call (VictorOps) direct
Observability vendor bundle.
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xMatters adjacent
Enterprise notification and workflow automation.
Notable stories
- PagerDuty originated from a hackathon project at Amazon Web Services meetup culture before becoming the default on-call verb for DevOps teams.
Industries
Market / IPO context
Ticker: PD (NYSE)
IPO status: public
IPO date: 2019-04-11
Editorial / static context — not a live quote.
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