Firestreak Ventures

Founded in 2022, Firestreak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Aspen, Colorado. It invests primarily in early-stage companies operating within the open-source software, cybersecurity, blockchain infrastructure and applications, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and SaaS sectors.

Amir Rustamzadeh

Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Qodo

Series A in 2024
Qodo is a platform that enhances developer productivity by offering features such as automatic code generation from natural language prompts, real-time intelligent code suggestions, and integrated testing tools. It analyzes code, docstrings, and comments to generate meaningful unit tests, helping developers build faster with fewer bugs.

Odigos

Series A in 2024
Odigos specializes in developing open-source tracing technology based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), empowering developers to gain insights into their applications' performance without extensive engineering effort. The company offers distributed metrics and logs for every application, enhancing observability.

Permit.io

Series A in 2024
Permit.io is a developer-focused company that provides a full-stack authorization as a service platform tailored for software developers and product teams. Its platform simplifies the integration of permissions and access control into applications, allowing clients to build and deploy software efficiently using a straightforward SDK and sidecar. By offering an open policy administration layer, Permit.io streamlines authorization tasks, helping businesses save time and reduce the need for frequent modifications to permissions and access controls.

Charm

Seed Round in 2023
Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It also renders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library. Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019.

PerfectScale

Seed Round in 2023
PerfectScale empowers teams to optimize their Kubernetes ecosystems continuously. Its AI-driven platform provides configuration recommendations, enhancing resource efficiency, stability, and enabling data-driven decision-making.

Sprkl

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sprkl is a technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that specializes in providing a personal observability platform for software developers. Founded in 2021, Sprkl automatically instruments every code change and analyzes its execution, offering developers actionable insights regarding how these changes interact with the existing codebase and system components directly within their integrated development environments (IDE). The platform reveals critical information such as code-level traces, errors, hidden API calls, database queries, and memory usage, enabling developers to gain telemetry data on their code changes. This functionality significantly enhances developers' ability to write production-ready code while reducing the time required for debugging and troubleshooting.

Earthly Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Earthly Technologies, Inc. is an open-source platform specializing in build automation for the post-container era. Founded in 2020 and based in Redwood City, California, the company has developed an array of tools that simplify continuous integration and deployment processes. Its primary product, the Earthly framework, enables developers to create repeatable builds that can run in any environment. The platform supports the creation of Docker images and various artifacts, such as binaries and packages, while also allowing for parallel processing and dependency management from multiple directories. Additionally, Earthly provides Earthly CI, a fast and efficient continuous integration platform, as well as Earthly Satellites, a remote build runner compatible with any CI system. By streamlining these development processes, Earthly Technologies aims to enhance efficiency and consistency in software development.

Platformatic

Seed Round in 2022
Platformatic provides an API platform that simplifies backend development and accelerates the creation of modern backends while reducing operational complexity. It equips developers with building blocks, frameworks, and automation to construct bespoke platforms, with clear guidance to support implementation.

Kurtosis

Series A in 2022
Kurtosis is a developer tool company founded in 2020 and based in Houston, Texas. It specializes in providing an end-to-end system for building, testing, and running distributed applications in the cryptocurrency space. The company offers software that automates the creation of testing environments, allowing developers to simulate various scenarios, including outages and malicious behavior. This functionality enables developers to rigorously test their code against potential failures, ensuring reliability before deployment. By streamlining the development process and reducing workloads, Kurtosis enhances the developer experience for those working on distributed systems.

Charm

Seed Round in 2022
Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It also renders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library. Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019.

Snaplet

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Snaplet is a tool designed for software developers that facilitates the process of creating a safe and minimized version of a production Postgres database. The platform simplifies the traditionally cumbersome task of copying large datasets by generating a snapshot of user data, which is then used to launch a containerized worker. This worker decrypts database credentials, connects to the database, and retrieves the necessary schema, enabling developers to work with versioned, up-to-date, and production-like data in a secure manner. Snaplet addresses common issues faced by developers, such as the slow and often unsafe practice of downloading production databases, thereby enhancing efficiency and safety in the development process.

Alphadoc

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Alphadoc is a platform designed to streamline developer experience. It offers tools for engineers at various stages of customer interaction, including documentation, sales support, marketing, onboarding, and implementation.

Permit.io

Seed Round in 2022
Permit.io is a developer-focused company that provides a full-stack authorization as a service platform tailored for software developers and product teams. Its platform simplifies the integration of permissions and access control into applications, allowing clients to build and deploy software efficiently using a straightforward SDK and sidecar. By offering an open policy administration layer, Permit.io streamlines authorization tasks, helping businesses save time and reduce the need for frequent modifications to permissions and access controls.
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