Athenian is a new startup that analyzes your software delivery process and gives you insights. When companies adopt a tool like Athenian, they are trying to find ways to ship new features at a faster pace and fix bugs more quickly.
Point Nine led a $6 million seed round for the startup. Frst, 20VC, Abstraction Capital, and Air Street Capital are also participating in the round. The company is getting investment from some business angels as well.
Athenian isn't the first company to provide software development analytic services. Jellyfish and Code Climate focus too much on individual performance according to founder and CEO Eiso Kant. Engineers hate them because they feel like software.
Athenian wanted to focus on teams and events instead of individuals. You connect the product to various data sources when you start using it. Athenian fetches new data from those sources.
After that, you get a true graph of all the events that are happening in the organization from the planning work to feedback from customers.
The startup breaks down your pipeline into several categories. You can see the release frequencies, outstanding bugs, and other metrics to get an overview.
The image is from Athenian.
When a project becomes more complex, the engineering team needs to ship new features, but also fix bugs and change old code to prevent technical debt from creeping up. Athenian gives you tools to see how bugs change over time. You can get insights about your CI/CD process, and you can track the build failure rate over time, in order to fix them.
I inquired about the investors in the company. He gave me a long list of reasons why he chose them. We are looking for an investor who is kindhearted. They need to be very deep in the software as a service. They need to have high convictions. He told me that they need to be a specialist in seed and a founder of the fund.
It says a lot about his ambitions for his company as he doesn't seem to be optimal for a quick hire down the road. He wants Athenian to become a Datadog-sized business.
The image is from Athenian.
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