HashiCorp Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

HashiCorp was acquired by IBM for $6.4B in April 2024, a 11.0x multiple on $583M of revenue.

HashiCorp acquisition price

$6.4B

Acquired by IBM · Apr 2024

HashiCorp revenue at acquisition

$583M

Last twelve months · Apr 2024

HashiCorp revenue multiple at acquisition

11.0x

EV/Revenue · Apr 2024

Cumulative funding HashiCorp raised

$349M

across 5 funding rounds

HashiCorp Overview

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a San Francisco software company that sells infrastructure and security lifecycle management tools for multi-cloud and hybrid environments. It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar and built its business on open source projects such as Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad and Packer. Customers use the products to provision cloud infrastructure as code, manage secrets and connect services, and the company sells paid enterprise editions and the managed HashiCorp Cloud Platform. It raised funding from Mayfield, GGV Capital, Redpoint, IVP and Franklin Templeton among others, reaching a valuation of 5.1 billion dollars in 2020, and listed on Nasdaq in December 2021. It reported revenue of 583.1 million dollars in the fiscal year ended 31 January 2024. IBM announced the acquisition of the company for 6.4 billion dollars in April 2024 and completed it on 27 February 2025, after which it operates as an IBM company.


Founded

2012

HQ

United StatesSan Francisco, CA

Status

Acquired

Customer focus

B2B

Revenue model

Subscription, Licensing

Revenue

$121M (Mar 2020)

Valuation

$5.1B (Mar 2020)

HashiCorp Acquisition

HashiCorp was acquired by IBM for $6.4B on 24 April 2024.

The acquisition price implies a 11.0x revenue multiple on $583M of revenue.

Before the acquisition HashiCorp had raised $349M across 5 funding rounds.

IBM announced on 24 April 2024 that it would acquire HashiCorp for 35 dollars per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of 6.4 billion dollars, net of cash. The boards of both companies approved the agreement, and closing was subject to HashiCorp stockholder approval and regulatory clearances. IBM said the combination would pair HashiCorp's Terraform and Vault with its Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift offerings to create an end-to-end hybrid cloud platform, and described the deal as accretive to adjusted EBITDA within the first full year after closing. The transaction closed on 27 February 2025 after the required approvals, covering all of HashiCorp's issued and outstanding common shares. HashiCorp, founded in 2012 and listed on Nasdaq since December 2021, sells infrastructure and security lifecycle management software and reported revenue of 583.1 million dollars in the fiscal year ended 31 January 2024. It now operates as an IBM company.

HashiCorp acquisition details
AcquirerDateTypePriceEV/Revenue
24 Apr 2024Strategic M&A$6.4B11.0x

Sources: newsroom.ibm.com, sec.gov

HashiCorp Valuation

HashiCorp is currently valued at $5.1B, based on its Series E in March 2020. Read the announcement ↗

The $175M round was led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from Redpoint, ICONIQ Capital, IVP, Geodesic Capital, T. Rowe Price and 3 other investors.

HashiCorp's valuation has grown 58x from $88M at its Series B in September 2016 to $5.1B in March 2020, across 3 priced rounds.

HashiCorp valuation by funding round

Revenue multiple
HashiCorp valuation by funding round
DateStageValuationRevenue Multiple
Mar 2020Series E$5.1B42.1x
Nov 2018Series D$1.9B-
Sep 2016Series B$88M88.0x

HashiCorp Revenue

HashiCorp's latest recorded revenue is $121M, as of its Series E in March 2020. At a $5.1B valuation, that implies a 42.1x revenue multiple.

Revenue grew from $1M in September 2016 to $121M in March 2020, while the revenue multiple moved from 88.0x to 42.1x.

HashiCorp revenue by funding round

HashiCorp revenue and valuation multiple by funding round
DateRevenue *ValuationRevenue MultipleStage
Mar 2020$121M$5.1B42.1xSeries E
Sep 2016$1M$88M88.0xSeries B

* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.

HashiCorp Funding History

HashiCorp has raised a total of $349M across 5 funding rounds.

HashiCorp's first fundraising round was a $10M Series A in December 2014. The most recent completed round was a $175M Series E in March 2020.

HashiCorp funding rounds

HashiCorp funding rounds
DateStageInvestorsRaisedValuationDeal Summary
Mar 2020Series EFranklin Templeton (lead); Redpoint; ICONIQ Capital; IVP; Geodesic Capital; T. Rowe Price; True Ventures; GGV Capital; Mayfield Fund$175M$5.1BHashiCorp announced in March 2020 that it had raised 175 million dollars in Series E funding at a valuation of over 5.1 billion dollars. The round was led by Franklin Templeton, with participation from funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates and from Geodesic Capital, alongside existing investors including GGV Capital, IVP, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures. The company said it would use the capital to expand its support teams and research and development. The raise followed a 100 million dollar Series D in 2018 that valued the company at 1.9 billion dollars. HashiCorp was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar and sells multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, including Terraform for provisioning, Vault for secrets management and Consul for service networking. It reported revenue of 121.3 million dollars for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2020 and went public on Nasdaq in December 2021.
Nov 2018Series DIVP (lead); Redpoint; Bessemer Venture Partners; TCV; True Ventures; GGV Capital; Mango Capital; Mayfield Fund$100M$1.9BHashiCorp, the San Francisco developer of multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, announced in November 2018 that it had raised 100 million dollars in Series D funding at a company valuation of 1.9 billion dollars. The round was led by new investor IVP, with participation from another new investor, Bessemer Venture Partners, and from existing backers GGV Capital, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures and True Ventures. The round brought total funding raised to about 174 million dollars. HashiCorp said it would use the money for open source and commercial product development, go-to-market hiring, and customer success and training aimed at large enterprises adopting multiple clouds. The company was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar and sells commercial editions of open source tools such as Terraform, Vault, Consul and Nomad. The raise made it one of the more highly valued private infrastructure software companies of its time.
Oct 2017Series CGGV Capital (lead); Redpoint (lead); True Ventures; Mayfield Fund$40M-HashiCorp, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, develops open-source software platforms for managing cloud infrastructure, including tools like Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, Vault for security, Consul for service mesh, and Nomad for cluster scheduling. The company targets enterprises adopting multi-cloud environments, helping reduce friction in cloud migrations with both free open-source and premium commercial versions. By 2017, it had secured customers such as Adobe, Barclays, Comcast, New Relic, SAP Ariba, Segment, and Spaceflight. On October 24-25, 2017, HashiCorp raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by GGV Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from existing investors Mayfield Fund and True Ventures. This brought total funding to $74 million. CEO Dave McJannet noted the raise was optional, driven by accelerating enterprise growth and open-source adoption, to bolster sales, support, R&D, and expansion into Europe and Asia. The company emphasized momentum in large-enterprise contracts over the prior 18 months. HashiCorp competes with Puppet, Chef, Red Hat, VMware, and DevOps tools from Docker and Rancher.
Sep 2016Series BGGV Capital (lead); Redpoint; True Ventures; Mayfield Fund$24M$88MHashiCorp, co-founded by Mitchell Hashimoto, develops open-source tools and enterprise software for DevOps infrastructure, including Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Serf, and Nomad, helping developers, operators, and security teams provision, secure, and manage distributed applications and cloud infrastructure. The company raised $24 million in a Series B round announced around September 7, 2016, led by GGV Capital, with participation from Mayfield Fund, True Ventures, and new investor Redpoint Ventures, bringing total funding to $34 million. HashiCorp planned to use the proceeds to expand its seven tentpole open-source projects and corresponding enterprise applications addressing workflow challenges in application delivery, focusing on development, operations, and security. After nine months of enterprise sales, the company achieved its first seven-figure revenue quarter, equivalent to at least $1 million in quarterly revenue, with paying customers including Conde Nast, Cisco, and Mozilla. Its open-source tools were adopted by professionals at Stripe, Uber, Twitch, OpenAI, Pinterest, and Capital One, showing strong traction in financials, media, retail, and large-scale internet companies. HashiCorp began commercializing its software in 2016, marking the shift from open-source development started in 2013 to enterprise offerings. The company continued growing, eventually raising over $350 million total across multiple rounds before its 2021 IPO.
Dec 2014Series AMayfield Fund (lead); Haystack; True Ventures; GGV Capital$10M-HashiCorp, founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, develops software to revolutionize datacenter management, application development, delivery, and maintenance for modern hybrid infrastructures. The company provides open-source tools that help developers and sysadmins manage evolving datacenters. In December 2014, HashiCorp raised $10 million in Series A growth funding led by Mayfield Fund, with participation from GGV Capital and True Ventures. The funding supports building out HashiCorp's enterprise offering, scaling the team, and continuing support for its millions of existing open-source users. On the same day, HashiCorp launched Atlas to power DevOps application delivery across public, private, and hybrid infrastructures. Mayfield's Robin Vasan highlighted the team's vision, momentum in open-source projects, and opportunity in hybrid datacenter automation.

Who has invested in HashiCorp?

13 investors have backed HashiCorp across its funding rounds, including GGV Capital, True Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Redpoint, IVP and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Lead investors include Franklin Templeton, IVP, GGV Capital, Redpoint and Mayfield Fund.


HashiCorp Investors

Investors in HashiCorp by funding rounds participated
InvestorHQRoundsRoleFirst check
True VenturesUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA5ParticipantDec 2014
GGV CapitalUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA5LeadDec 2014
Mayfield FundUnited StatesIndia, TX5LeadDec 2014
RedpointUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA4LeadSep 2016
IVPUnited StatesMenlo Park, CA2LeadNov 2018
ICONIQ CapitalUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA1ParticipantMar 2020
HaystackUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA1ParticipantDec 2014
Geodesic CapitalUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA1ParticipantMar 2020
T. Rowe PriceUnited StatesBaltimore, MD1ParticipantMar 2020
Bessemer Venture PartnersUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA1ParticipantNov 2018
TCVUnited StatesSan Francisco, CA1ParticipantNov 2018

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Acquisitions by HashiCorp

HashiCorp has acquired 2 companies to date.

Last acquisition by HashiCorp was on June 27th 2023. HashiCorp acquired BluBracket for $25M.


Latest Acquisitions by HashiCorp

BluBracket
Vektra
Description
BluBracket is an Austin-based code security platform that scans source code repositories for vulnerabilities, secrets, and compliance risks across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. The tool performs static analysis, detects exposed API keys, and enforces policies in CI/CD pipelines. Founded in 2019 by former Symantec executives, BluBracket serves enterprises like Salesforce and Cisco, integrating with tools such as Jenkins and AWS CodeCommit. The platform supports over 30 languages and provides audit trails for SOC 2 compliance.
Vektra is a software company developing tools for next-generation infrastructure including the Tachyon configuration manager, distributed messaging systems, and Current.SH multi-tenant logging platform. Based in the United States, Vektra supports DevOps teams with scalable solutions for cloud-native applications.
HQ CountryUnited StatesUnited States
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
Deal Date27 Jun 202314 Jun 2016
Valuation$25Mundisclosed
EV/Revenue
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HashiCorp Competitors

HashiCorp competitors include listed companies like MongoDB, Cloudflare and Computacenter, and private ones like Harness, Island and Lambda.

Public and private companies comparable to HashiCorp
CompanyHQStatusRevenueEBITDAValuationRevenue Multiple
HarnessUnited StatesSan Francisco, CAPrivate$250M-$5.5B22.0x
MongoDBUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$2.5B($104M)$25B7.9x
CloudflareUnited StatesUnited StatesPublicly listed$2.2B($25M)$96B33.7x
IslandUnited StatesDallas, TXPrivate$200M-$6.4B32.0x
ComputacenterUnited KingdomUnited KingdomPublicly listed$12B$440M$6.5B0.3x
LambdaUnited StatesSan Jose, CAPrivate$520M-$6B11.5x

HashiCorp Public Comps

HashiCorp is no longer listed, but its public comps include Computacenter, Wangsu, Box, Nextdc, IONOS Group, Oracle Corp Japan, United Internet, GitLab, Applied Digital and GDS Holdings.

Last FYEV/RevenueEV/EBITDA
RevenueEBITDALast FYLTM2027ELast FYLTM2027E
Computacenter$12B$440M0.5x0.3x14.3x9.4x
Wangsu$699M$138M7.1x6.4x36.0x32.2x
Box$1.2B$124M5.4x5.0x51.0x16.2x
Nextdc$344M$135M20.9x19.2x53.4x40.5x
IONOS Group$1.5B$508M4.1x3.9x12.0x10.7x
Oracle Corp Japan$1.8B$579M4.1x4.0x12.9x12.3x
United Internet$6.9B$1.5B1.4x1.3x6.4x6.0x
GitLab$955M($82M)7.1x6.2x(82.6x)42.6x

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Common questions about HashiCorp

When was HashiCorp founded?HashiCorp was founded in 2012.
Where is HashiCorp headquartered?HashiCorp is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States.
Is HashiCorp publicly listed?No, HashiCorp was acquired by IBM in April 2024.
Who acquired HashiCorp?HashiCorp was acquired by IBM in April 2024.
How much was HashiCorp acquired for?HashiCorp was acquired for $6.4B in April 2024, a 11.0x revenue multiple.
What is HashiCorp's valuation?HashiCorp was last valued at $5.1B in its Series E in March 2020.
How much funding has HashiCorp raised?HashiCorp has raised $349M across 5 funding rounds.
What was HashiCorp's last funding round?HashiCorp's last funding round was a $175M Series E in March 2020, led by Franklin Templeton.
Who are HashiCorp's investors?HashiCorp's investors include True Ventures, GGV Capital, Mayfield Fund, Redpoint, IVP, ICONIQ Capital, Haystack, Geodesic Capital, T. Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners and 3 others.
What is HashiCorp's revenue?HashiCorp's latest recorded revenue is $121M (March 2020).
What is HashiCorp's revenue multiple?HashiCorp's latest valuation implies a 42.1x revenue multiple ($5.1B valuation on $121M of revenue).
Which companies are comparable to HashiCorp?Companies comparable to HashiCorp include Harness, MongoDB, Cloudflare, Island, Computacenter and Lambda.
How many companies has HashiCorp acquired?HashiCorp has acquired 2 companies, including BluBracket and Vektra.
What was the largest acquisition by HashiCorp?The $25M acquisition of BluBracket in June 2023 is the largest acquisition HashiCorp has made to date.

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