Jellyfish
Jellyfish operates where tension lives, right between engineering output and business accountability, where teams ship fast but struggle to explain what it all adds up to. Founded in 2017 by Andrew Lau, David Gourley, and Phil Braden, the company emerged from hard-earned experience at Endeca, where complex data either translated into enterprise value or quietly disappeared into noise. Andrew Lau, now Co Founder and CEO, recognized the disconnect early. Engineering had become the engine, but leadership still lacked a reliable dashboard to understand its true impact. Jellyfish was built to close that gap, turning activity into insight and insight into decisions that stand up in a boardroom.
The product moves like infrastructure, not decoration. It pulls signals from Jira, GitHub, CI CD systems, financial tools, and modern coding environments, then rebuilds that chaos into a narrative about allocation, delivery, risk, and return. Not activity theater. Not vanity metrics dressed in charts. Real answers to questions executives keep asking behind closed doors. Where is time going. What is shipping on time. What is exposed. What is actually driving outcomes. Jellyfish does not just aggregate data, it translates it, turning engineering output into language a CFO can act on without a translator. In a market flooded with tooling, that translation layer is where modern SaaS companies either gain control or lose it quietly.
There is traction behind the signal. More than 200+ employees, Series C stage, and approximately $114.5M raised, as reported by MGMT Boston and Contrary Research. Customers including DraftKings and Blue Yonder use Jellyfish to tighten delivery loops and reduce reporting drag, with case studies pointing to measurable gains in predictability and throughput. In 2025, Chris Ward stepped in as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), marking a shift from product-market fit to scaled execution. That move alone tells you where this is going. Not experimentation. Expansion.
The pressure across engineering teams is no longer about shipping faster, it is about proving value with precision. Output is rising, complexity is compounding, and expectations from boards and finance are sharper than ever. Jellyfish positions itself at that fault line, acting as the intelligence layer where product, engineering, and finance align on what actually matters. In the current SaaS landscape, where efficiency is scrutinized and growth must justify itself in real time, that alignment is not optional. It is survival.
Inside the company, the philosophy mirrors the product. Transparent, data-driven, willing to challenge default thinking. The culture leans into questioning comfortable metrics and replacing them with signals tied to outcomes. Recognition like Forbes naming Jellyfish among America’s Best Startup Employers adds credibility, but the sharper signal is how tightly the organization operates around impact. No wasted motion. No narrative inflation.
Jellyfish is hiring across engineering, product, and go to market for people who understand that code is no longer just output, it is capital allocation in disguise. The opportunity is not cosmetic. It sits at the center of how modern companies measure themselves. Explore roles at jellyfish.co if you want to work where engineering finally speaks business, fluently enough to influence budgets, strategy, and the next wave of SaaS decision-making.
