Company Updates
Today, we’re excited to share that Code Climate Quality has been spun out into a new company: Qlty Software. Code Climate is now focused entirely on its next phase of Velocity, our Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) solution for enterprise organizations
How It Started
I founded Code Climate in 2011 to help engineering teams level up with data. Our initial Quality product was a pioneer for automated code review, helping developers merge with confidence by bringing maintainability and code coverage metrics into the developer workflow.
Our second product, Velocity, was launched in 2018 as the first Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform to deliver insights about the people and processes in the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
All the while, we’ve been changing the way modern software gets built. Quality is reviewing code written by tens of thousands of engineers, and Velocity is helping Fortune 500 companies drive engineering transformation as they adopt AI-enabled workflows.
Today, Quality and Velocity serve different types of software engineering organizations, and we are investing heavily in each product for their respective customers.
Where We're Going
To serve both groups better, we’re branching out into two companies. We’re thrilled to introduce Qlty Software, and to focus Code Climate on software engineering intelligence.
Over the past year, we’ve made more significant upgrades to Quality and our SEI platform, Velocity, than ever before. Much of that is limited early access, and we’ll have a lot to share publicly soon. As separate companies, each can double down on their products.
Qlty Software is dedicated to taking the toil out of code maintenance. The new company name represents our commitment to code quality. We’ve launched a new domain, with a brand new, enhanced edition of the Quality product.
I’m excited to be personally moving into the CEO role of Qlty Software to lead this effort. Josh Knowles, Code Climate’s General Manager, will take on the role of CEO of Code Climate, guiding the next chapter as an SEI solutions partner for technology leaders at large, complex organizations.
We believe the future of developer tools to review and improve code automatically is brighter than ever – from command line tools accelerating feedback loops to new, AI-powered workflows – and we’re excited to be on that journey with you.
-Bryan
CEO, Qlty Software
Code Climate, the enterprise-level Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) solution, today welcomes Kathleen Rohrecker as Senior Vice President of Marketing.
Rohrecker is a marketing executive with a strong track record of increasing the value of growth-stage technology companies. Prior to joining Code Climate, Rohrecker was Senior Vice President of Marketing at application intelligence and automation provider NS1. Under her leadership, NS1’s brand valuation increased by over $300M. Prior to her tenure at NS1, Rohrecker served as CMO for Maxymizer and Revolution Analytics, positioning those companies for acquisition by Oracle and Microsoft respectively.
“Kathleen has a history of scaling the value, audience, and customer base of every company she works for,” says Bryan Helmkamp, Founder and CEO of Code Climate. “Our Software Engineering Intelligence platform has the power to transform the daily lives of software engineering leaders. We’re fortunate to have a communications leader with Kathleen’s talent and vision to help us tell that story.”
Rohrecker’s data-driven approach to marketing strategy is a natural fit for the data insights startup. As Senior Director of North American Marketing for Oracle, Rohrecker developed a financial model to measure the relative contribution and conversion metrics for all inbound, outbound, and pipeline acceleration marketing programs, supporting nearly 300 sellers. At Revolution Analytics, her go-to-market strategy for big data analytics solutions led to a 500% increase in average contract values in 18 months.
“Throughout my career, I’ve been privileged to help technology companies reach their full market potential, and I’m keenly aware of the power of data-driven insights to accelerate business outcomes,” says Rohrecker. “I look forward to elevating Code Climate among the engineering and business leaders who need it most.”
Rohrecker resides in the greater New York City Area. She holds an MBA from Hofstra University and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from William & Mary.
Code Climate, the enterprise-level Software Engineering Intelligence solution, today announces that Marcy Campbell, Chief Revenue Officer for Boomi, has been appointed to the Code Climate Board of Directors.
Campbell brings over 30 years of experience leading large-scale, go-to-market organizations for global companies ranging from Fortune 500 to venture-backed technology firms. Prior to recently joining Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, she served as senior vice president at PayPal where she led global sales, professional services, and operations.
“Marcy has an incredible record of helping software providers grow from early startup stages into global operations, and she’s been a strong advocate for data-driven decision-making in organizational leadership,” says Bryan Helmkamp, co-founder and CEO of Code Climate. “Having known Marcy for over 15-years, I’m thrilled to add her expertise in DevOps and go-to-market strategy to our Board of Directors.”
“Having worked with many of the largest companies in the world, as well as cutting-edge brands, I have an experimental nature — I’m attracted to opportunities to work with companies that have a compelling vision and help them massively scale,” says Campbell. “I am honored to join Code Climate’s board and to support their mission of bringing transparency to software engineering.”
As CRO of Boomi, Campbell spearheads the category-leading, global software as a service (SaaS) company’s revenue-generating strategies with a focus on driving fast growth, while continuing to deliver value to its more than 20,000 customers globally. She also serves on the Board of Directors for marketing analytics company NextRoll, a machine learning marketing platform, and on the Board of Advisors for the Asian University for Women, as well as acts as a mentor for the Cherie Blair Foundation.
Campbell has been recognized as a Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Influence, a Top 100 Global Sales Leader by The Modern Sale, and as one of the Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentsSource.com. She resides in the San Francisco Bay area, holds a degree from the University of Hartford, was a National Regent Scholar and most recently a Member of the Board of Regents.
We are excited to share news today that we have two new tech industry experts joining our executive leadership team. This continues the incredible momentum we’ve experienced this year after closing our Series C round of funding in August, more than doubling our revenue, and significantly growing our team across the board.
Check out the full details in the Press Release:
Following Series C funding, this expansion of a highly accomplished group of leaders underpins a period of transformative growth.
Code Climate, the leader in Engineering Intelligence, today announced two key strategic hires, naming Rory Parness as CFO and Bill Serino as VP of Sales. These tech industry veterans join Code Climate as the company gains momentum on the heels of a successful Series C round of funding closed in August.
Parness and Serino are the latest additions to a seasoned executive leadership team brought on in 2021. Code Climate has experienced significant expansion over the past year, with revenue up more than 100 percent and headcount nearly doubling.
Parness joins Code Climate from Foursquare, where he served as CFO, leading the finance and operations teams for nearly a decade. Prior to Foursquare, he was the CFO of several companies in the technology, healthcare, and music industries. Over his 30-year career, Parness has helped scale companies to over $500 million in revenue and orchestrate a multi-billion dollar exit. He has also served as an advisor for several tech startups.
Serino brings a wealth of leadership experience to the Code Climate team, most recently from Harbr Data, an enterprise data exchange platform, where he was Global Head of Sales. Serino has extensive experience driving sales growth in multiple verticals in the Fortune 500, having held strategic sales roles at EMC and Oracle, and helping lead a successful IPO for Pivotal Software.
“As we continue to scale rapidly for a phenomenal period of growth, I’m super excited to welcome Rory and Bill as the latest members of our leadership team,” says Bryan Helmkamp, Code Climate co-founder and CEO. “The enterprise-grade level of experience that they each bring to Code Climate will help propel us to the next level and strengthen our position as the leading Engineering Intelligence company.”
This hypergrowth comes at a time when business and technology leaders must align on a more data-driven approach to decision making. Code Climate is deeply committed to investing in passionate people and innovative solutions to further its mission to build trust with transparency and fuel the next generation of software engineering excellence.
Led by PSG, the investment is aimed at furthering Code Climate’s mission to help engineering leaders align initiatives with strategic priorities, accelerate software delivery, and drive continuous improvement.
Code Climate, a leading Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform, announced today that it has raised $50M in Series C funding. The round was led by PSG and joined by previous investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and NextView Ventures, bringing Code Climate’s total funding to $66M.
Founded in New York City in 2011, Code Climate’s Engineering Intelligence products are trusted by over 1,000 companies from start-ups to enterprises. Their flagship product, Velocity, empowers companies like Faire, Instacart, and Forbes to improve the efficiency of their engineering and product organizations at scale. By transforming data from DevOps and project management tools like Jira into valuable insights, Velocity reduces cycle time and enables teams to ship software faster.
“We’re excited to partner with PSG and build upon our leadership as a Software Engineering Intelligence platform,” said Bryan Helmkamp, CEO & Co-Founder of Code Climate. “This investment will help us further our vision of helping engineering and business executives align engineering initiatives with business priorities, deliver high quality code quickly and consistently, and improve teams’ processes and skills to create a high performing culture.”
Over the past year, Code Climate has experienced continued strong growth, more than doubled its headcount, and brought on an experienced executive leadership team.
“We think Code Climate is well positioned to capitalize on companies’ growing need to gain visibility into their engineering organizations,” said Rich Zajeski, Vice President at PSG. “We believe Code Climate has built a leading platform and team that can address this market need. The value proposition of Code Climate has enormous potential, helping companies maximize their strategic investments in software engineering to bring innovative products to market faster, more consistently, and more efficiently. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with Bryan and the rest of the Code Climate team in their next phase of growth.”
The funding will help Code Climate advance its product vision, extend its sales reach, and scale customer success – furthering its mission of helping engineering align activities with strategic priorities, deliver high quality software, and improve team performance.
We’re proud to announce that as of August 31, 2020, Code Climate has reinforced its commitment to your security by becoming SOC 2 Type 1 compliant. Along with our existing security protocols, this new certification is representative of our ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of our customers’ data.
This dedication to security is critical to fulfilling our mission and empowering engineering organizations to achieve excellence with data-driven insights.
What is SOC 2 Compliance?
SOC 2, or Service Organization Controls 2, is an accreditation developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). To qualify for SOC 2, an organization must demonstrate that it has controls in place to ensure the security, availability, and processing integrity of users’ data. It’s a confirmation of an organization’s commitment to maintaining its customers’ privacy.
Type 1 certification requires the completion of a security audit by an independent, third-party accounting and auditing firm, and indicates that Code Climate currently has processes, procedures, and controls in place to ensure the security of our Engineering Intelligence System and safeguard our customers’ data. It also represents the start of a six-month review period, during which we’ll demonstrate our longterm ability to uphold these procedures, a prerequisite for achieving SOC 2 Type 2 certification.
Why SOC 2?
We value the trust our customers place in us and are committed to maintaining that trust by continually evaluating and improving upon our security protocols. SOC 2 is an opportunity to put those protocols to the test, and to demonstrate our ongoing dedication to data security.
Vendors and partners with compliance requirements are now able to request a copy of Code Climate’s SOC 2 Type 1 report as part of their compliance strategy.
In light of current global circumstances, our annual one-day conference for engineering leaders is going virtual, with a new, more interactive format. Over the course of six weeks, we’ll be hosting a series of remote fireside chats with senior engineering leaders from a range of industries. Each session will be followed by a Q&A with our guest, as well as a topical discussion moderated by our sponsor, LaunchDarkly.
The series kicks off on June 18th with our first session. From there, we’ll present a new chat every week, featuring leaders from Buffer, Netflix, Stripe, and more. Conversations will focus on ways to succeed in senior leadership by driving high performance in your organization. Topics include driving continuous improvement, upleveling managers with data, fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, and maintaining engineering tempo at scale.
Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to learn more about our featured guests.
The Engineering Leadership Summit: Virtual Edition is sponsored by LaunchDarkly, the feature management platform developers and operations teams use to eliminate risk from their software development cycles.
As the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has evolved rapidly, we want to take a moment to share updates with our customers about the precautions we’re taking to keep our services up and running, while ensuring the safety of our team.
Our leadership team is carefully monitoring and assessing the situation and we do not foresee a major impact to the delivery of our services due to COVID-19. We’re following the advice of the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and other local authorities to be prepared to mitigate any potential disruptions to our business if necessary.
Our team
First and foremost, the safety and health of all Code Climate employees and the broader community is something we take very seriously. To that end, we have been taking proactive measures to help reduce the spread of the virus by following the advice of medical experts and the authorities:
- Remote work – Our team has been telecommuting since March 10th and this policy will continue until at least April 20th. We’re ensuring that all employees have the tools and equipment to perform their responsibilities securely from home.
- Travel – We’ve restricted all domestic and international business travel except for trips that are strictly necessary.
Our customers
We have plans and processes in place to ensure we can maintain business functions and our services are available.
- Security and reliability – Our systems were designed and built with disaster recovery in mind. Our infrastructure and data are spread across three AWS availability zones. In addition to that, we have automated backup processes for all data stores that contain customer data. Read more about our approach in our Security page. A real-time view of our uptime and availability is tracked on status.codeclimate.com.
- Support – Our team continues to remain available to address all your commercial and support needs. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact info@codeclimate.com.
We will be providing additional updates as the situation evolves. If we can support you or your team in any way, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
Data-driven insights to boost your engineering capacity
Today we’re sharing something big: Code Climate Velocity, our first new product since 2011, is launching in open beta.
Velocity helps organizations increase their engineering capacity by identifying bottlenecks, improving day-to-day developer experience, and coaching teams with data-driven insights, not just anecdotes.
Velocity helps you answer questions like:
- Which pull requests are high risk and why? (Find out right away, not days later.)
- How does my team’s KPIs compare to industry averages? Where’s our biggest opportunity to improve?
- Are our engineering process changes making a difference? (Looking at both quantity and quality of output.)
- Where do our developers get held up? Do they spend more time waiting on code review or CI results?
Why launch a new product?
Velocity goes hand-in-hand with our code quality product to help us deliver on our ultimate mission: Superpowers for Engineering Teams. One of our early users noted:
““With Velocity, I’m able to take engineering conversations that previously hinged on gut feel and enrich them with concrete and quantifiable evidence. Now, when decisions are made, we can track their impact on the team based on agreed upon metrics.” – Andrew Fader, VP Engineering, Publicis
Get started today
We’d love to help you level up your engineering organization. Request a demo here.