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Top Dev Tool Startups for 2022
As the economy continues to digitize, tech continues to drive an increasing impact on everyday lives. While developers represent less than half a percent of the global population, they have an outsized impact.
Dev tools, which allow for greater leverage on the limited supply of coding talent available to companies, hit an inflection point in 2022. The list below includes 13 of the fastest-growing startups in the dev tool space today. Their selection was based on being backed by top-tier investors and having significant traction, suggesting clear value add for developers to build faster and better.
For an in-depth analysis of some of the startups on this list, including a breakdown of the products and how they work, see our reports on Replit, Snyk, and Vercel over at Contrary Research.
Dev tools, which allow for greater leverage on the limited supply of coding talent available to companies, hit an inflection point in 2022. The list below includes 13 of the fastest-growing startups in the dev tool space today. Their selection was based on being backed by top-tier investors and having significant traction, suggesting clear value add for developers to build faster and better.
For an in-depth analysis of some of the startups on this list, including a breakdown of the products and how they work, see our reports on Replit, Snyk, and Vercel over at Contrary Research.
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Companies
Retool
An interface used to build internal tools and the runtime for those apps.
Backed by
Sequoia Capital
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Snyk
Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.
Backed by
Accel
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Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph provides universal code search for developers and companies so they can innovate faster and manage billions of lines of code.
Backed by
Sequoia Capital
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Harness
Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Backed by
GV
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Vercel
Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
Backed by
Accel
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Replit
A browser-based integrated development environment for cross-platform collaborative coding.
Backed by
Coatue
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Cribl
Cribl enables open observability and defies data gravity, giving customers radical levels of choice and control over their data.
Backed by
Greylock
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Gatsby
Gatsby is a Software-as-a-service open source web development tool and framework which is customizable and extensible for any purpose.
Backed by
Index Ventures
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Supabase
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a full PostgreSQL database.
Backed by
Y Combinator
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Kong
Kong is the cloud connectivity company offering the service connectivity platform designed for modern architectures.
Backed by
Andreessen Horowitz
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LaunchDarkly
Empowering all teams to deliver and control their software.
Backed by
Bessemer Venture Partners
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Warp
Developer of a Rust-based coding terminal designed to make teams productive at coding and application development.
Backed by
Contrary Capital
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Sentry
Empowers all developer teams to create the best software, faster.
Backed by
Accel
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