Heavybit Welcomes New Member: LocalStack

We’re pleased to welcome LocalStack. By offering a high-fidelity emulator for cloud dependencies, the team is redefining the way enterprise developers create, test, and iterate on new projects–faster, more securely, and more efficiently than ever.” - Joseph Ruscio, General Partner/Heavybit

Heavybit is excited to announce our investment in and welcome our newest portfolio company, LocalStack, which gives developers the power to create a fully local cloud stack for developing and testing their code offline.

Modern development teams are expected to deliver high-quality, performant applications faster than ever. However, they are finding it increasingly challenging to achieve full parity for their code between their development and production environments, in part due to their increasing reliance on external services, including cloud providers and third-party, cloud-based applications.

Developers’ choices are often limited to creating and working within a hacked-together local environment that simulates access to essential external services, or attempting to create a fully-remote dev environment hosted in the cloud, which becomes increasingly costly and tough to manage when shared across larger teams, and hard to work with when low-latency internet isn’t available. As a result, dev teams face either the prospect of struggling within highly inefficient remote environments, or working within inaccurate, simulated environments that may lead to them unwittingly shipping problematic code.

Why We're Excited

LocalStack is an open-source software platform that solves the challenge of development vs. production parity by acting as a high-fidelity cloud service emulator–a sophisticated and responsive testing framework that accurately simulates a development team’s underlying services. By providing a full-featured offline environment within a single container, LocalStack gives developers the power to leverage all the functionality of third-party services, including queues, datastores, and authentications, without requiring full access to any of them. As a result, developers can use their “local” environment to rapidly and safely mock up code offline with full team collaboration, along with full visibility across the CI/CD pipeline and full support for SSO integration with enterprise authentication providers.

Today, we’re seeing strong demand for services that can enable development teams to thoroughly test and deliver code faster, particularly for larger enterprises that need services like LocalStack to accelerate their digital transformation journey. It’s not surprising that enterprise firms such as 3M, IBM, and Comcast rely on LocalStack. We expect to see many more such companies become adopters in the near future.

With this investment, LocalStack will scale its go-to-market function and continue to enhance the platform with new capabilities in chaos engineering and resiliency testing. Learn more about how LocalStack works, visit the community repo, or get started now.

Meet the Founders

Gerta Sheganaku

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, LocalStack

Gerta Sheganaku is the co-founder and co-CEO of LocalStack. She has previously served as a software engineer, researcher, and product lead at organizations like Tricentis, CSIRO, and runIT Solutions.

Waldemar Hummer

Co-Founder and CTO, LocalStack

Waldemar Hummer is the co-founder and CTO of LocalStack. He has previously served as a software developer, researcher, and engineering lead at organizations like Atlassian, IBM, and Bloomberg.