About us
Grepr is an observability technology company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. We're a team of engineers who care about building great products and tools, and want to make other engineers' lives better.
Transforming reliability
Observability used to be synonymous with reliability. However, as software has proliferated and microservices took hold, the unit value of observability data decreased, while its volume shot up exponentially. As a result, the cost of observability skyrocketed without a corresponding increase in reliability.
Engineers need a new set of observability and reliability abstractions that address this paradox. And with advanced AI, we can help troubleshoot and heal systems automatically. Grepr's mission is to simplify this complex observability landscape by helping engineering teams run more reliable systems more efficiently and with less work.
Meet Jad Naous
Prior to Imply, Jad was an investor at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the most recognized Venture Capital firms in the world. There, Jad focused on infrastructure and data investments, developing a thesis around the importance of Operational Analytics and the rise of analytics and intelligence as a core building block for agile companies. Jad worked on diligence for tens of deals during that time, giving him a wide perspective on the startup strategies that work and those that don't.
Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jad was an architect at AppDynamics, the company that invented distributed tracing and made Application Performance Monitoring a cornerstone of observability. Jad started three of the six products the company still sells today and led numerous projects around migration to microservices, scalable data processing, and AI. Jad's experience at AppDynamics was foundational in his decision to tackle observability once more.
Grepr is Jad's second startup. The first was based on some of the research he had done as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.
Jad holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.
What we believe in
User-experience first
We are always questioning how the user will experience our product, and how we can improve it. Our top priority is to make everything we do extremely simple to use and to adopt.
Continuous improvement
At Grepr, we strive to dynamically improve and challenge our team and ourselves. We embrace radical feedback in every form, and seek improvement for our customers.
Deliver value
Our product is simple. This influences how we work, and how we add value to our partners and customers. We deeply believe that features should add value, not more work.
Team comes first
We believe that people do their best and most rewarding work when they are in a collaborative team with everyone focused on the same goals. We put others' success ahead of our own, and we celebrate wins and dissect failures together as a team.
Investor Team
Our investors have experience ushering in leading cloud infrastructure firms. Some of our investors include:
Team Experience
Our team comes from the best and brightest. Here's a sample of our collective company experience:
