Tempest raises $3.2M for its enterprise developer platform and releases to GA

Today marks a pivotal moment for Tempest. With $3.2M in seed funding led by Abstract Ventures, Box Group, and Background Capital, and backed by industry luminaries like Max Mullen (Instacart co-founder), Jason Chan (former VP of InfoSec at Netflix), and Mike Abbott (former VP of Engineering at Apple), we are officially launching into General Availability.

But this is more than just a product launch. It’s the next chapter in our journey to revolutionize how companies build and deploy developer platforms—a mission born from years of firsthand experience tackling the inefficiencies and frustrations faced by engineering teams worldwide.

After Apple acquired our previous company Fleetsmith in 2020, my co-founders (Lukasz Jagiello and Eric Skram) and I observed a pattern that was impossible to overlook. Companies were hiring incredibly talented engineers, only to bog them down with infrastructure tasks instead of letting them focus on writing and improving code.

We knew that this wasn’t just inefficient—it was a risk to the business. When talented engineers spend days wrestling with CI/CD pipelines instead of delivering customer-facing value, companies are losing more than just time. They’re losing revenue, market opportunities, and their competitive edge. At Tempest, we believe that poor developer experience isn’t just a developer problem, it’s an whole business problem that can be existential when left uncheck.

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