FireHydrant was started by Robert "Bobby" Ross, a site reliability engineer who had worked at DigitalOcean and Namely and taught Ruby on Rails at General Ass…
FireHydrant was started by Robert "Bobby" Ross, a site reliability engineer who had worked at DigitalOcean and Namely and taught Ruby on Rails at General Assembly. In 2017 he began recording a video series about building an app from scratch, chose an incident management tool as the project, and soon wanted the product more than the videos. He went full time in 2018, and with two co-founders he raised a $1.5 million seed round from Work-Bench in April 2019. An $8 million Series A led by Menlo Ven
FireHydrant was started by Robert "Bobby" Ross, a site reliability engineer who had worked at DigitalOcean and Namely and taught Ruby on Rails at General Assembly. In 2017 he began recording a video series about building an app from scratch, chose an incident management tool as the project, and soon wanted the product more than the videos. He went full time in 2018, and with two co-founders he raised a $1.5 million seed round from Work-Bench in April 2019. An $8 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures followed in 2020 and a $23 million Series B led by Harmony Partners in 2021. Freshworks closed its acquisition of FireHydrant in January 2026.
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