Seattle-based developer platform DevZero has picked up new office space to house its growing team.
The startup, which had been using a coworking space, in December moved into a roughly 4,500-square-foot space in Uptown at 200 First Ave. W., said co-founder and CEO Debo Ray. The move comes after DevZero in January announced $26 million in funding and launched its product to help developers code in the cloud.
"We aim to grow in Seattle," Ray said. "We are actually seeing more people want to come to work now. In a newer startup, in-person collaboration is very effective."
DevZero has the new Uptown space for three years, Ray said, and it recently moved into a roughly 2,000-square-foot space in San Francisco as well. DevZero has just under 25 employees, including around 10 based in Seattle, six in San Francisco and a few who work remotely, said Ray, who added that the company aims to have about 40 or 45 employees by the end of 2023.
DevZero, founded last year, helps developers write code on their computers the exact way it will run in production, with the aim of shipping code faster and speeding up onboarding time for developers. In the same way writers can open Google docs and write in a uniform environment, according to Ray, DevZero provides this same ease for developers. The security and identity company Okta and the equity management company Carta are both clients of DevZero.
Ray co-founded DevZero with Rob Fletcher, the company's chief operating officer. Both co-founders overlapped at Uber prior to launching their startup. Brad Blackard, DevZero's head of engineering, also worked at Uber, and Ray said he joined Uber six months after Ray.
DevZero's investors include Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group, which has invested in Amazon and Rover; and Foundation Capital, which has invested in Uber and Netflix. Other investors include Anthos Capital and Fika Ventures.
Ray said the team has mostly grown through word of mouth up to now, and DevZero is planning to grow its product, engineering and go-to-market teams with the funding.
"That's the goal for the money, getting more users," Ray said.
