Observability industry leader Polar Signals announced a series of significant milestones that validate the company’s rapid growth and commitment to innovation. The company secured an additional $6.8 million in funding. This funding round brought the company’s total to $10.8 million.
This funding round was led by Spark Capital, with notable participation from GV, Lightspeed, Haystack, Lorimer, and an esteemed group of angel investors including Guillermo Rauch, Julius Volz, Monica Sarbu, Jimmy Zelinskie, Nikhil Benesch, and Erik Bernhardsson. This funding milestone also reflects the strong confidence investors and customers have in Polar Signals’ goals.
Polar Signals also announced a strategic expansion of its board. Along with Frederic Branczyk, new arrivals to the board include Natalie Vais and Alex Polvi as an independent board member. Polar Signals also noted that Vercel has selected Polar Signals Cloud as its continuous profiling platform.
Polar Signals also introduced AI-driven Performance Optimizations. This feature enables customers to use AI to directly suggest source code improvements. Leveraging world-class LLMs, source code, and profiling data, this optimization tool represents a significant step in their goal to empower customers to translate performance data into actionable changes.
The Alpha version of AI-driven Performance Optimizations is now being launched to a select group of customers.
KEY QUOTES:
“Polar Signals has made (TLS) our terminator measurably more efficient!”
- Casey Gowrie, Software Engineer at Vercel
“At Vercel we now understand the impact of DDoS attacks better thanks to Polar Signals Cloud. We can immediately pinpoint which part of our systems are under stress during highly variable loads. I’ve been especially impressed with the product holding up under such intense situations, it doesn’t always happen when we try products!”
- Casey Gowrie, Software Engineer at Vercel
