Bitrise
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bitrise is a cloud-based continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform designed for mobile application development.[1] Founded in Budapest, Hungary, in 2014, the company automates build, test, and deployment processes for iOS, Android, and cross-platform mobile applications.[2] Bitrise was the first Hungarian company accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator programme, joining the Winter 2017 batch.[3][4] The company had raised approximately $100 million in venture capital funding by 2021, from investors including Insight Partners, Partech, Open Ocean, Y Combinator, and Ashton Kutcher.[5][6][7]
History
Bitrise was co-founded in October 2014 by Barnabas Birmacher, Daniel Balla, and Viktor Benei as a spinoff from Bitfall, a mobile application development agency based in Budapest.[3] The platform was developed to automate mobile build, test, and deployment processes.[2][8]
Y Combinator and international expansion
In early 2017, Bitrise was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch, becoming the first Hungarian company to participate in the programme. Following Y Combinator, the company opened offices in San Francisco, Boston, and Tokyo, in addition to its existing London office established in 2015. In 2020, the company transitioned to a remote-first operational model.[9]
Funding and investment
Bitrise raised $3.2 million in Series A funding in 2017, led by Open Ocean, with participation from Y Combinator and Fiedler Capital. A $20 million Series B round followed in 2019, led by Partech, with participation from new investor Zobito and existing investors.[10]
In 2019, actor and venture investor Ashton Kutcher made an angel investment in Bitrise through Oktogon Ventures, a fund co-founded by former Ustream founder Gyula Feher.[11][12]
In November 2021, the company closed a $60 million Series C round led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to approximately $100 million.[13][14] As part of the Series C investment, Josh Zelman of Insight Partners joined the company's board of directors.
Acquisitions
In March 2019, Bitrise acquired Outlyer, a San Francisco-based monitoring and analytics startup, adding real-time metrics and monitoring capabilities to its platform.[15] In October 2022, Bitrise acquired Flare. Build, a company providing backend services for the Bazel build system, including distributed build caching infrastructure.[16][17]
Products and services
Bitrise offers a cloud-based devops platform for mobile application development.[18] The platform includes continuous integration and delivery tools, a build cache system for reducing build times, a monitoring and analytics tool called Bitrise Insights, and release management features for distributing applications to app stores. Users can define automated workflows using either a visual editor or YAML configuration files. The platform supports a library of open-source integration steps for third-party tools including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Firebase, and Fastlane.[19][20][21]
Industry recognition
Bitrise was listed in Accel's Euroscape index of top 100 cloud companies in Europe and Israel in 2020 and 2022. In 2023, Bitrise was included in GP Bullhound's Titans of Tech report, which listed 50 European technology companies.[22] Bitrise was included in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms.[23]
In 2023, Bitrise was listed among the top 150 private Y Combinator-backed companies.[24] Bitrise has been covered in industry publications including InfoWorld and SD Times.[1][18]
In 2025, Bitrise received the Best DevOps Tool/Product of the Year and Overall DevOps Winner awards at the National DevOps Awards in London.[25][26]
