# Sentry Announces $16M Series B Round with NEA and Accel

**URL:** https://sentry.io/about/press-releases/sentry-announces-16m-series-b-round-with-nea-and-accel/

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**Date:** Wed May 23 2018 20:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

**SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)** — Sentry, the only APM for
developers, announced a \$16M Series B funding round today, led by existing
investors NEA and Accel. Unlike traditional monitoring focused on systems
insights, Sentry enables modern software developers to directly and
proactively resolve code issues anywhere in the application. With Sentry,
companies cut time to resolution for application errors from five hours to
five minutes. This latest round of funding supports the company’s exponential
growth with more than 9,000 paying customers, tens-of-thousands of engineering
orgs and a half-million developers using Sentry to turn errors into simple
iteration.

“Sentry’s growth is a testament to the now-universal truth that app users
everywhere expect a flawless experience free of bugs and crashes. Poor user
experience kills companies,” said Dan Levine of Accel. “In order to keep
moving forward as quickly as possible, product teams need to know that
customers will never leave because of a broken app update. Sentry lets every
developer build software that is functionally error-free.”

Named a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star, Sentry has also appointed several key
executives to its management team, including VP of Sales Derek Sorkin,
formerly Director of Sales at GitHub; VP of Infrastructure Vlad Cretu,
formerly Head of Engineering, Hipchat Server and Data Center, at Atlassian; VP
of Marketing Ryan Goldman, formerly Head of Marketing at SignalFx; and VP of
Engineering Ben Vinegar, promoted from Head of Product Engineering. Sentry
also opened its first Europe office in Vienna, Austria, led by Principal
Engineer Armin Ronacher, the creator of popular development frameworks Flask
and Jinja2.

Co-founded in 2008 by David Cramer and Chris Jennings, Sentry’s goal has been
to limit the impact of incidents so that every developer could focus on what
they do best: building software that improves customers’ lives. Sentry is now
used by 40% of the Fortune 100, and its vision of modern application
development and delivery aligns well with its industry-leading partners:

“Developers should not lose valuable time due to basic investigation and
triage of issues in production,” said Lori Lamkin, Director of Program
Management, Visual Studio Team Services, at Microsoft. "We’re thrilled to have
Sentry as a DevOps partner, sharing Microsoft’s commitment to open source and
helping teams collaborate and achieve more with modern development practices.”

“Sentry and GitHub are uniquely aligned: we’re both committed to a vibrant
open source community, we want developers to do more of what they love, and we
know that better code requires iteration,” said Matt Colyer, Director of
Product Management at GitHub. “Best-in-breed monitoring is a must for modern
development teams. Wide adoption and deep GitHub integrations through our
Marketplace make Sentry an obvious partner for us.”

Introducing Sentry 9

Today Sentry also announced its latest 100% open-source release, [Sentry
9](https://sentry.io/9/). Sentry processes more than 360 billion errors a year
for its users. Code issues can cost companies significant engineering time,
resources and lost revenue. With Sentry 9, developers are able to integrate
remediation into their existing workflow, reducing time to resolve errors from
five hours to five minutes.

“Sentry has long believed that the line between developing production code and
fixing production code is blurring,” said David Cramer. “Modern engineering
teams know that faster issue resolution has value to their workflow and to the
user’s experience. We built Sentry to make incidents easier to identify,
manage and remediate with the least possible disruption to development
productivity and business continuity. We are excited to see our momentum in
this space.”

### About Sentry

Sentry is APM for developers. More than a half-million engineers around the
world use Sentry’s open-source, real-time platform to proactively detect and
resolve errors anywhere in their applications. Sentry helps product teams
resolve issues quickly within their existing development workflows and
uniquely shows who wrote the code, when in the release history, where in the
stack trace, and what app logic is broken. With Sentry, developers get insight
into which bugs are impacting your business and whether there is a quick fix
or a need to roll back. Sentry integrates with the tools developers already
use, like GitHub, Slack, Microsoft VSTS, Bitbucket, Jira, Trello, and Heroku.
More than 9,000 customers, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Merck, PayPal, The New
York Times, Twitter, Epic Games and Uber use Sentry to turn errors into simple
iterations. To get started, visit [sentry.io](https://sentry.io).

### About NEA

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused
on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple
stages, sectors and geographies. With more than \$20 billion in cumulative
committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology
and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed
stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing
includes more than 220 portfolio company IPOs and more than 370 acquisitions.
For additional information, visit [nea.com](https://nea.com).

### About Accel

Accel partners with exceptional founders with unique insights, from inception
through all phases of growth. Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, Crowdstrike,
DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Jet, Qualtrics, Slack,
Spotify, Supercell, Tenable and Vox Media are among the companies the firm has
backed over the past 35 years. The firm seeks to understand entrepreneurs as
individuals, appreciate their originality and play to their strengths. Because
greatness doesn't have a stereotype. For more, visit
[accel.com](https://accel.com),
[facebook.com/accel](https://facebook.com/accel) or
[x.com/accel](https://x.com/accel).

### Additional Information

- Visit Sentry: [sentry.io/welcome/](https://sentry.io/welcome/)

- Learn more about Sentry: [sentry.io/about/](https://sentry.io/about/)

- Read Sentry’s blog: [blog.sentry.io/](https://blog.sentry.io/)

- Follow Sentry: [x.com/sentry](https://x.com/sentry)

- See Sentry’s customers: [sentry.io/customers/](https://sentry.io/customers/)

- Learn about Sentry 9: [sentry.io/9/](https://sentry.io/9/)

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