Transposit CEO explains how startups will focus on IT management

• Last year, Transposit, a $135 million DevOps startup, brought in a new CEO, Divanny Lamas, who is also the managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures to help expand the company’s focus on IT management.
• Transposit was originally a platform that can help developers manage, use and share application programming interfaces or APIs, which can connect different applications and allow them to “talk” to each other.
• Now, Lamas leads Transposite to focus more on IT service management, and is in line with technology giants such as ServiceNow and Atlassian.
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Transposit, a four-year-old DevOps start-up company, will focus on IT service management and connect with companies such as ServiceNow and Atlassian.

Transposite launched a platform in 2016 that allows developers to more easily manage the integration between multiple applications by combining application programming interfaces. They are called APIs, and they allow different software and services to exchange information and essentially “talk” to each other.

Then, last year, it hired a new CEO-Divanny Lamas, who is also the managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures-to lead the expansion of its mission: Transposit now provides a platform for engineering and IT teams to make what they do Work is automated. It can help engineers collect data throughout the development process, analyze it to gain insights, and monitor how the team solves problems.

Lamas sees this as an extension of the initial goals of the startup:

She told Business Insider: “One thing that excites me is that we are growing the company to effectively handle everything Transposit wants to do, and we are just simplifying and simplifying people’s work.”

Transposit co-founder and CTO Tina Huang said that although developers can use Transposite’s tools to add APIs to their applications, publish and share APIs they build, and reuse APIs built by other developers, they still need to The efforts of the developers can be all set.

Huang told Business Insider, “Even for our own internal tools, this is the main barrier to entering the market.”

At the same time, Transposit has begun to build tools for managing its internal operations and connecting these tools to Slack. It realizes that it can release these same types of tools externally to developers along with existing products.

In September, it launched an engineering operation platform called Mission Control to help developers easily manage and monitor IT events. Users can also use the product to respond to events and interruptions directly from Slack. To help it achieve this goal, Transposit also announced a US$35 million Series B financing led by Altimeter Capital in the same month, and PitchBook is valued at US$135 million.

Transposit is competing with larger competitors because it believes that incident management has been “discontinued”

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Lamas said that Transposit will still provide the same functionality for managing APIs as before, but now it is also catching up to the same market as ServiceNow and Atlassian.

Lamas said: “When we talk about why we are chasing this market, we think that fundamentally speaking, incident management has been broken.”

CTO Huang said that at present, it is managed separately from daily operations, and the people engaged in this work have almost no data to drive decision-making. On the other hand, Transposite treats incidents as part of the operational process and allows developers to understand how to speed up the time required to resolve incidents, thereby providing better services to today’s organizations.

Huang said: “If you look at most incident management platforms, they will start when the alarm is issued and end when the incident is marked as resolved.” “But in reality, the triggering of an alarm or a customer reporting a problem is only your first awareness To the event.”

Transposite’s data-driven approach enables teams to understand where they can strategically improve the resolution process and time.

Currently, Transposit is expanding its sales and engineering team and hired a sales executive earlier this year. Lamas pointed out that unlike most Silicon Valley high-tech companies, in Silicon Valley, talent is heavily biased towards men, and 42% of its engineering teams are women.

Lamas said: “As a result, it works differently.” “This is very different from the status quo of many Silicon Valley technology companies that we have all heard and experienced.”

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