While tech giants spend years and millions building internal developer platforms, most engineering teams are left with a painful choice: cobble together fragmented tools or build everything from scratch. Spotify introduced Backstage to help address this problem, but even after years of availability, it still requires significant setup time and ongoing maintenance—an investment of time and resources that most teams simply can’t afford.
Today, the team behind Fleetsmith (acquired by Apple in 2020) emerges from stealth with a solution. Tempest, launching with $3.2M in funding led by Abstract Ventures, delivers a complete developer platform that can be deployed in hours instead of months, helping engineering teams ship better code faster.
The seed funding round attracted industry heavyweights, with participation from Box Group and Background Capital, alongside strategic investments from Max Mullen (co-founder of Instacart), Jason Chan (former VP of InfoSec at Netflix), and Mike Abbott (former VP of Engineering at Apple). This collective bet on Tempest’s vision reflects a growing reality: companies can no longer afford to waste engineering talent on infrastructure tasks instead of innovation.
Tempest was founded by Ken Kouot, Lukasz Jagiello, and Eric Skram following Apple’s acquisition of their previous company, Fleetsmith. After spending years at Apple, the team saw a persistent challenge: companies hire specialized engineers only to burden them with infrastructure tasks instead of customer-facing innovation.
What sets Tempest apart is its unique two-pronged approach. The platform combines a comprehensive internal developer portal for service visibility and tracking with a powerful DX platform that enables true self-serve workflows. While other solutions stop at showing what’s happening in the stack, Tempest turns insights into action with built-in automations that work out of the box. The platform comes with a rich ecosystem of integrations that can be easily extended through its developer-friendly SDK, eliminating the months of setup typically required with existing solutions.
Starting today, Tempest is publicly available with transparent pricing including a free tier for teams up to 10 seats, making enterprise-grade developer platforms accessible to organizations of all sizes. The platform can be deployed without the months of setup and specialized teams typically required, enabling companies to capture immediate value. By focusing on complete self-service capabilities rather than just visibility, Tempest helps teams go from zero to full developer enablement in hours, not months.
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Ex-Apple team unveils Tempest to speed up platform engineering, as they raise $3.2M
While tech giants spend years and millions building internal developer platforms, most engineering teams are left with a painful choice: cobble together fragmented tools or build everything from scratch. Spotify introduced Backstage to help address this problem, but even after years of availability, it still requires significant setup time and ongoing maintenance—an investment of time and resources that most teams simply can’t afford.
Today, the team behind Fleetsmith (acquired by Apple in 2020) emerges from stealth with a solution. Tempest, launching with $3.2M in funding led by Abstract Ventures, delivers a complete developer platform that can be deployed in hours instead of months, helping engineering teams ship better code faster.
The seed funding round attracted industry heavyweights, with participation from Box Group and Background Capital, alongside strategic investments from Max Mullen (co-founder of Instacart), Jason Chan (former VP of InfoSec at Netflix), and Mike Abbott (former VP of Engineering at Apple). This collective bet on Tempest’s vision reflects a growing reality: companies can no longer afford to waste engineering talent on infrastructure tasks instead of innovation.
Tempest was founded by Ken Kouot, Lukasz Jagiello, and Eric Skram following Apple’s acquisition of their previous company, Fleetsmith. After spending years at Apple, the team saw a persistent challenge: companies hire specialized engineers only to burden them with infrastructure tasks instead of customer-facing innovation.
What sets Tempest apart is its unique two-pronged approach. The platform combines a comprehensive internal developer portal for service visibility and tracking with a powerful DX platform that enables true self-serve workflows. While other solutions stop at showing what’s happening in the stack, Tempest turns insights into action with built-in automations that work out of the box. The platform comes with a rich ecosystem of integrations that can be easily extended through its developer-friendly SDK, eliminating the months of setup typically required with existing solutions.
Starting today, Tempest is publicly available with transparent pricing including a free tier for teams up to 10 seats, making enterprise-grade developer platforms accessible to organizations of all sizes. The platform can be deployed without the months of setup and specialized teams typically required, enabling companies to capture immediate value. By focusing on complete self-service capabilities rather than just visibility, Tempest helps teams go from zero to full developer enablement in hours, not months.
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