Fleet , an open device management company, has announced that it’s raised $27 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to date to $52.3 million.
The oversubscribed round, which follows 6x revenue growth in the last two years, was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, will accelerate the development and adoption of Fleet’s open device management platform, which provides both self-hosting and cloud-hosted options to ensure that organizations of all types and sizes can see and secure all of their computing devices, on their own terms, the company says.
Investors included CRV, Open Core Ventures, GitLab Cofounder and Executive Chair Sid Sijbrandij, Moonfire Ventures, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, MobileIron CRO Christof Baumgärtner, MobileIron engineer Balaji Parimi, and Lookout co-founder Kevin Mahaffey.
Open device management is a new approach to device management, which is how companies provision computers for employees and keep them secure and compliant. Unlike traditional mobile device management (MDM) platforms, which are typically closed, proprietary, and rigid, Fleet’s open device management emphasizes transparency, extensibility, and repeatability.
The folks at Fleet say it gives organizations complete visibility, lets them audit and automate configuration, and ensures they are not confined to a single vendor’s ecosystem. This flexibility isn’t a nice-to-have; it’s a requirement for managing the many important, yet complex, environments used by top organizations like Stripe, Fastly, Uber, Reddit, Deloitte, and #1 YouTuber MrBeast, all of which have standardized on Fleet.
Fleet is used by global enterprises to enroll millions of devices, from iPads and employee laptops to high-security security datacenters and AWS gaming servers, in addition to factory robots, computers that run vehicle production lines, supercomputer control nodes, and more. This is possible because Fleet works across platforms (Apple, Linux, Windows) in addition to different networks, VPNs, and zero-touch implementations.
