Startup profile for PagerDuty: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.

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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 snapshot

Latest 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

Other: Bessemer Venture Partners , Andreessen Horowitz

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

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.

  • Opsgenie (Atlassian) direct

    Bundled with Jira/Confluence; strong for Atlassian shops.

  • Splunk On-Call (VictorOps) direct

    Observability vendor bundle.

  • 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

Enterprise SaaS Developer Tools Cybersecurity

Market / IPO context

Ticker: PD (NYSE)

IPO status: public

IPO date: 2019-04-11

Editorial / static context — not a live quote.

FAQs about PagerDuty

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

PagerDuty manages on-call schedules and routes alerts from monitoring tools to engineers during incidents.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) and Bessemer (/fund/bessemer-venture-partners) participated before the 2019 IPO.
PagerDuty IPO'd on NYSE as PD in April 2019.
Opsgenie is Atlassian-native; PagerDuty is vendor-neutral with broader third-party integration history.
PD on the NYSE.
Alex Solomon (CEO), Andrew Miklas, and Josh Liebman co-founded PagerDuty in 2009.
See latest SEC filings for PD; public company with recurring SaaS revenue model.
Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, Slack, ServiceNow, and hundreds of other tools via PagerDuty integrations marketplace.
Check live markets for PD; not tracked on this profile.
a16z invested in growth rounds before IPO as part of enterprise infrastructure thesis.

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