Dragonboat

Dragonboat, founded in 2018 by Becky Flint, operates a cloud-based Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) platform from its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company was established to address a gap in the market for tools that support outcome-focused product organizations. Founder and CEO Becky Flint drew upon her extensive experience in product and tech executive roles at companies like PayPal, Shutterfly, Bigcommerce, and Feedzai, where she managed large-scale product investments and scaled global teams. This background directly informed the creation of Dragonboat, a platform designed to solve the challenges she encountered firsthand.

The company's core offering is an AI-powered platform designed to manage the entire product operating model. It serves product leaders and cross-functional teams by enabling them to align strategies, evaluate opportunities, and allocate resources. The business model is subscription-based. Dragonboat has successfully raised a total of $15 million in funding over two rounds. A $3 million seed round in July 2021 was followed by a significant $12 million Series A round in December 2021, led by Insight Partners with participation from previous investors.

The platform provides a suite of modular applications for strategy, roadmapping, customer intake, planning, and managing the product development lifecycle (PDLC). A central feature is its "Portfolio Intelligence," which uses AI and a unified data layer to provide real-time insights, risk detection, and decision support. This allows product managers to connect business goals with customer needs and resource allocation. The platform integrates with a wide range of common work management and data analytics tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Salesforce, and Tableau, ensuring it complements existing workflows without requiring process overhauls. This functionality is aimed at improving R&D efficiency, accelerating time-to-market, and maximizing portfolio ROI for its clients, which include enterprises like Asia Commercial Bank and Toyota.

Keywords: Strategic Portfolio Management, Product Operating Model, Responsive PPM, product portfolio management, outcome-driven roadmaps, resource allocation, product operations, AI-powered platform, Becky Flint, product strategy, portfolio intelligence, roadmap planning, OKR management, product lifecycle management, customer feedback management, cross-functional alignment, enterprise software, SaaS, product investment decisions, technology portfolio management