Appoints Steve Rodda as new CEO to lead company through next phase of growth
BOSTON, Aug. 31, 2022, the cloud native developer experience leader, today announced that it has secured a $20 million growth investment led by global software investor Insight Partners. In conjunction with the funding, the company has appointed Steve Rodda, a technology industry veteran, as the company's new Chief Executive Officer. Rodda replaces Richard Li, who will remain on the executive leadership team as Chief Product Officer and co-founder.
Rodda joins Ambassador Labs at a time of significant growth, with the company achieving over 200% year-over-year revenue growth. Ambassador Labs will use this additional investment to accelerate go-to-market initiatives and expand its open source and commercial product portfolios.
Steve Rodda brings an extensive background of technology and product management experience, with his early days spent as a programmer. He has maintained a consistent focus on delivering solutions to market that address customer challenges. He most recently served as chief executive officer at API design platform provider Stoplight. Prior to Stoplight, Rodda was chief operating officer at Cherwell Software (now owned by Ivanti) and led end-to-end delivery of the company's IT service management software solutions to support customer success. He has also held product leadership roles at SolarWinds and LOGICnow (currently owned by SolarWinds).
"I'm excited to lead Ambassador Labs at a time when Kubernetes has created an unprecedented market opportunity," said Rodda. "Ambassador Labs has a proven team and loyal customer base that has established it as a cloud native solutions leader. I look forward to guiding the team as we help organizations modernize how they build, ship, and run applications on Kubernetes."
To support the company's growth trajectory, Ambassador Labs has invested steadily in its leadership team with the most recent appointment of Deren Rehr-Davis as Vice President of Sales. Now, with the addition of Rodda as CEO, Richard Li will focus on product innovation and oversee the company's product teams to ensure continued delivery of solutions that accelerate Kubernetes adoption by developers and organizations worldwide.
The investment also comes at a time when organizational adoption of Kubernetes is at a record high. The CNCF 2021 Annual Surveyreports that Kubernetes has become an industry standard, with usage rising across organizations globally, particularly in large enterprises.
"Ambassador Labs had early foresight into the market opportunity that surrounds Kubernetes and its impact on modern software development. They have impressed us with their focus on customer and developer success through rapid product innovation and go-to-market efforts," said Philine Huizing, Principal at Insight Partners. "As cloud native technologies like Kubernetes continue to fuel digital transformation in enterprises worldwide, we're excited to closely partner with Steve and the Ambassador Labs team who are well-positioned as leaders of this industry revolution."
Additional Resources
- Read our blog announcing the latest release of Ambassador Cloud (https://blog.getambassador.io/secure-and-scale-kubernetes-for-teams-self-service-edge-stack-api-keys-and-collaborative-2778ca0399b3)
- Set up a collaborative Kubernetes development environment in 5 minutes (https://www.getambassador.io/use-case/collaborative-development/)
- Learn more about Ambassador's Kubernetes Development Accelerator Program (https://www.getambassador.io/kubernetes-development-accelerator-program/)
- Visit the Kubernetes Learning Center (https://www.getambassador.io/kubernetes-learning-center/)
- Join the Ambassador Developer Community on Slack (https://a8r.io/slack)
- Join the Ambassador Labs team - see open positions (https://www.getambassador.io/about-us/careers/)
About Ambassador Labs
Ambassador Labs, the cloud native developer experience leader, enables developers to code, ship, and run applications faster and easier than ever. Maker of top Cloud Native Computing Foundationand Telepresence, Ambassador Labs delivers a developer control plane for Kubernetes that integrates the development, deployment, and production infrastructure for developers and organizations worldwide including Microsoft, PTC, NVidia, and Ticketmaster. Ambassador Labs is backed by top investors including Insight Partners and Matrix Partners. Learn more and get started for free at www.getambassador.io.
About Insight Partners
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of June 30, 2022, the firm has over $80B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 700 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners meets great software leaders where they are in their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.comor follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.
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