CircleCI, Inc.

San Francisco, CaliforniaFounded 2011

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CircleCI's mission is to keep engineering teams on top of it all, so they can deliver great products and enjoy the process. They build CI/CD tooling to keep the world's best engineers shipping great code, enabling teams to automate their entire software delivery pipeline with speed, focus, and control.

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Founding Story

CircleCI was founded in September 2011 in San Francisco by Paul Biggar and Allen Rohner to address inefficiencies in software deployment. The platform was designed to be 'Heroku for testing' by offering easy GitHub integration and YAML-based configuration files. Biggar brought expertise from his PhD in compilers and static analysis, as well as prior work on Mozilla's JavaScript engine. The company released its beta in October 2011 and raised $50k from a small investor a few months after starting.

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Leadership

Founders

Paul Biggar

Paul Biggar served as founding CEO until 2015. He holds a degree in computer science and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin focusing on software compilers and static analysis. He previously worked at Demonware (games tech firm), worked on Mozilla's JavaScript engine, and founded News Labs (Y Combinator). He later founded Darklang and Tech for Palestine. He remained on CircleCI's board until December 2023.

Allen Rohner

Allen Rohner is co-founder and served as CTO. He has a machine learning background and is a Clojure contributor. He holds a degree from Southern Methodist University. He is a three-time entrepreneur who previously worked at Crossroads Systems for 4 years. After CircleCI, he co-founded Griffin, a UK-based banking platform, where he serves as CTO.

Executive Team

Jim Rose

Chief Executive Officer

Joined CircleCI in 2014 through the acquisition of Distiller, where he was a founder. Led the company's growth to over $100M in revenue.

Rob Zuber

Chief Technology Officer

Joined CircleCI in 2014 through the acquisition of Distiller, where he was a founder. Instrumental in building CircleCI's technical platform and product strategy.

Business Model

Revenue Model

Credit-based usage pricing model. Credits are purchased up-front and used to pay for CircleCI platform usage in real-time, including monthly active users, compute time based on resource classes, and add-on features. Also offers subscription-based plans (Free, Performance, Scale) with different credit allocations and feature sets.

Pricing Tiers

Free

$0/month

30,000 free credits/month (6,000 build minutes with small Docker). Up to 5 active users/month, 30x concurrency, Docker/Windows/Linux/Arm/macOS support, self-hosted runners, 1 GB network, 2 GB storage, community support.

Performance

Starting at $15/month

$15 for every 25,000 credits. 30,000 free credits included. 5 active users included ($15/month per additional user), larger resources, 80x concurrency, optional 8x5 support, 5 GB network, 2 GB storage, 20 self-hosted runner concurrent tasks, unlimited flaky test detection.

Scale

Custom pricing (billed annually)

Customizable plans with enterprise controls, largest resource classes including GPU, optional 24/7 support, custom users and concurrency, 50 GB network, 200 GB storage, unlimited self-hosted runner tasks, SSO, config policies.

Private company. No public IPO plans announced.