Companies

HerokuWinter 2008Acquired

San Francisco · CA, USA · founded 2012 · http://heroku.com

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Heroku — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
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Heroku: limited disclosed financing to assess.

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AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

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Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.

Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.

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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 8525 companies in this sector. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
This company
Sector median$1.3M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$14.6M

Raised more than 96% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 96% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

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Heroku is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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Heroku is a private company, based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.
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