Buddybuild
Continuous Integration and Deployment for iOS | buddybuild.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | investor investor | €0.0 | round |
| investor investor investor | €0.0 | round | |
$7.6m | Series A | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
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Buddybuild was a Vancouver-based startup founded in 2015 by former Amazon employees Dennis Pilarinos and Christopher Stott, along with Johnny Ting Shi. The founders' backgrounds at major tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft, where they worked on cloud services and developer tools, directly informed their venture. Pilarinos, in particular, was driven by a frustration with the complexities of software development, a sentiment that fueled the creation of Buddybuild.
The company developed a mobile iteration platform designed to streamline the application development lifecycle for mobile developers. Its core service integrated continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a user feedback system into a single platform. This allowed development teams to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying their apps, connecting with source control services like GitHub and BitBucket to trigger these actions automatically. The platform's value proposition was its ability to significantly reduce the time developers spent on non-feature-related tasks, allowing them to focus on creating better user experiences. Buddybuild catered to a range of clients, from individual developers to large enterprises, with clients including notable names like Slack, Reddit, FourSquare, and The New York Times. Its business model was subscription-based, offering various service tiers, from a free starter plan to comprehensive business plans.
A significant milestone in the company's history was its acquisition by Apple in January 2018 for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, the Buddybuild team was integrated into Apple's Xcode engineering group to develop tools for the iOS community, while remaining based in Vancouver. Consequently, Buddybuild stopped accepting new customers and discontinued its Android development services in March 2018. The service for existing iOS clients continued for a period before the platform was fully shut down in the fall of 2021, with its technology and expertise being absorbed into Apple's internal developer tool ecosystem, influencing products like Xcode Cloud.
Keywords: mobile iteration platform, continuous integration, continuous delivery, user feedback, app development tools, iOS development, Android development, Xcode, Apple acquisition, developer productivity, CI/CD, mobile DevOps, application lifecycle management, beta testing, crash reporting, Dennis Pilarinos, Christopher Stott, Vancouver tech, developer tools, mobile app testing