Chef

Seattle, WA Software Acquired

Chef provides infrastructure automation and DevOps software for building, deploying, managing and securing applications in modern multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The company offers Chef Enterprise Automation Stack, including Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, and Chef Automate for configuration management, compliance, and infrastructure provisioning.

Acquired

Chef has been acquired

Acquired by Progress Software October 6, 2020 $220M

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2008

Employees

266

Total Funding

$105M

5 rounds

Latest Valuation

$0.36B

September 9, 2015

Funding

Total raised $105M across 5 rounds

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Last updated 06-25-2026

Latest Round

Type

Series E

Date

September 9, 2015

Amount

$40M

Valuation

$0.36B

Lead Investors

DFJ Growth
DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
September 9, 2015 Series E $40M $0.36B DFJ Growth
December 9, 2013 Series D $32M DFJ Growth
March 26, 2012 Series C $19.5M Ignition Partners

Leadership

  • Barry Crist

    CEO & Co-Founder

    LinkedIn
  • Corey Scobie

    Chief Technology Officer

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • Puppet

    Configuration management platform using pull-based model with Puppet DSL and Embedded Ruby for infrastructure automation

  • Ansible

    Infrastructure automation tool with agentless architecture using YAML, supports both push and pull models for configuration management

  • SaltStack

    Configuration management platform acquired by VMware in 2020, push-based architecture with YAML support for infrastructure automation

  • Terraform

    Infrastructure as Code tool for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure across multiple providers

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