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Era Software

Acquiredby ServiceNow ยท October 2022

Observability and log data management at scale

  • DevOps
  • Data Engineering
  • Infrastructure
  • Analytics
formerly era.co

About

Era Software built observability tools for the large volumes of machine data that engineering organizations produce, with a particular focus on log management: simplifying how teams collect, store and query logs at scale so they can understand how their applications perform.

Todd Persen, who had co-founded InfluxData as CTO and helped engineer the InfluxDB time-series database, started Era in Seattle in 2019 with Robert Winslow. It raised $22.3M, including a Series A led by Playground Global, and ServiceNow acquired it in 2022 to add log management to its Lightstep observability product.

Array invested in Era's $5.4M seed in January 2020, led by Foundation Capital, and again in its Series A.

Record

Stage
Series A
Category
DevOps
Location
Seattle, Washington
Total raised
$22.3M
Array came in at
Seed, 2020

Founders

  • Todd Persen

    CEO & Co-Founder

    Previously co-founder and CTO of InfluxData, where he helped engineer the InfluxDB time-series database; after Era, a senior director of product at ServiceNow and CTO of Hydrolix.

  • Robert Winslow

    CTO & Co-Founder

    A software engineer and data scientist who consulted independently for seven years before co-founding Era; later a principal engineer at Lightstep.

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