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SignalFx funding, valuation and investors
Cloud-native monitoring platform using streaming analytics.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$20M · March 2015
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$29M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
acquired
acquired · San Mateo, California
Latest tracked event: Acquisition (2019). It is shown separately because it is not counted as disclosed equity funding.
Overview
SignalFx built a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform using streaming analytics to track infrastructure and application metrics at scale. Founded in San Mateo, the company targeted modern SaaS and microservices architectures with real-time alerting and dashboards. Andreessen Horowitz led an $8.5M seed in 2013; CRV led a $20M Series B in 2015. Splunk acquired SignalFx in 2019 for approximately $1.05B to expand its observability cloud capabilities.
Why SignalFx is interesting
Pre-Splunk observability bet on SaaS metrics at web scale — CRV-led B round with a16z seed before $1B+ Splunk acquisition.
Product & use cases
SignalFx ingested time-series metrics and traces from cloud infrastructure and microservices, applying streaming analytics for real-time alerting — positioned against Datadog and New Relic for cloud-native stacks.
- Microservices infrastructure monitoring
- Real-time SaaS application metrics
- Cloud cost and performance alerting
- DevOps observability dashboards
Key facts
- Acquired by Splunk (2019) for ~$1.05B
- Seed (Mar 2013): $8.5M led by a16z — TechCrunch
- Series B (Mar 2015): $20M led by CRV — GlobeNewswire
- Cloud-native streaming analytics for observability
Funding history (newest first)
Acquisition
2019 ~$1.05B- Splunk (lead)
Source: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/newsroom/press-releases/2019/splunk-to-acquire-signalfx.html
Series B
2015-03 $20MSource: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/03/31/
Seed
2013-03 $8.5MSource: https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/14/signalfx-raises-8-5m/
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Streaming analytics engine designed for high-cardinality cloud metrics — differentiated from legacy APM before category consolidated.
Cloud observability consolidated around Datadog and Splunk acquisitions. SignalFx's streaming architecture was strategically valuable to Splunk's cloud pivot — classic acqui-hire-at-scale outcome.
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Datadog direct
Dominant cloud monitoring platform; out-scaled SignalFx independently.
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New Relic direct
APM incumbent pivoting to cloud observability.
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Splunk incumbent
Acquired SignalFx in 2019 — now part of Splunk Observability Cloud.
Notable stories
- SignalFx founders came from Facebook infrastructure — built streaming metrics before Datadog owned the category.
- Splunk's ~$1B acquisition signaled observability M&A wave as legacy log vendors bought cloud-native monitoring.
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