flox Raises $27 Million, Introduces OpenSource Platform to Bring Nix to Everyone
Feb 07, 2023

flox empowers anyone to use the popular Nix tools to simplify systems
development life cycle

flox, the company bringing the power of Nix to everyone, today announced it has raised $16.5 million
in its Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), bringing total funding to date to $27 million.
flox was incubated at DESCOvery, the D. E. Shaw group's venture studio, and its early backers
include Addition and Hetz Ventures. Notable angel investors include Thomas Dohmke, CEO atGithub; Guy Podjarny, founder of Snyk; and James Turnbull, former CTO at Microsoft for Startups
and VP at Docker, currently CTO at Sotheby's.

The company today is also introducing its new open source flox platform and is expected to release
its enterprise platform later this year. flox expands on Nix's unique approach to package management
and system configuration to provide convenience, collaboration and control throughout the Systems
Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It is helping developers and enterprises realize the value of Nix withnew and powerful capabilities by providing portable, fully-isolated development; test and production
environments; a tailored catalog of software packages with flox; and tooling for managing the entireSDLC.

http://floxdev.com
http://github.com/flox/flox

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http://twitter.com/floxdevelopment

"Building and deploying software in a reproducible, secure manner is perhaps the biggest challenge
facing developers today," said Aaron Jacobson, Partner at NEA. "flox recognizes the innovations
within Nix to solve this challenge yet those challenges come with the cost of a steep learning curve.
By creating an easy-to-use platform around Nix, flox supercharges productivity for developers
everywhere while also making their software more secure.""We created flox to give developers better collaboration and control over their development lifecycle,
including improved automation over production releases, reduced operational risk and increased
productivity," said Ron Efroni, CEO and co-founder at flox. "We recognized the vast power of Nix but
knew there was a market need to take developer tools to the next level, providing versioned
environments-as-code that could be consistently released, updated and maintained and that could
offer improved security and efficiency. We couldn't be more excited to offer this to developers andbring this to market now."

CEO Ron Efroni is a member of the NixOS Foundation board, and several flox team members are Nix
contributors. With the goal of more widespread adoption of Nix, the team will continue to contribute,support and promote the Nix project and community. Read more about flox's story and relationshipwith Nix here: https://floxdev.com/about.

"flox helps developers and enterprises innovate better and deploy software securely," said Todd
Arfman of Addition. "We're excited to partner with Ron and his talented team as they continue toexpand and roll out their new open source platform to bring Nix to everyone."

http://floxdev.com
http://github.com/flox/flox

http://linkedin.com/company/floxdev
http://twitter.com/floxdevelopment

The way software is built is changing. Larger code bases, complex software dependencies,
cloud-native technologies and massive security breaches are just a few examples of the reasonsorganizations are re-evaluating the way they build and deploy software. They've started looking
beyond containers at tools and platforms that can improve their build and development process,increase efficiency and result in higher quality code, reproducibility and visibility into their stack - inany environment.

flox enables organizations to adopt and implement Nix at scale by providing omni-platform developer,
test and production environments defined (and managed) as code. With flox it is easy to shareenvironments and packages across teams, machines, individuals and organizations while integrating
into existing workflows. In the areas of Security and Compliance, flox provides complete visibility into
the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for applications used in production environments, providing theultimate visibility into the software stack and enabling real-time vulnerability management anddetection without scanning.

"flox was originally built within the D. E. Shaw group to help our developers adopt Nix at scale," said
Ron Davidson, co-head of DESCOvery, the D. E. Shaw group's venture studio. "The platform is stillused at the D. E. Shaw group today, and we're excited about the value that we believe flox can bringto developers everywhere."

Developers can start using the flox open source platform today.

http://floxdev.com
http://github.com/flox/flox

http://linkedin.com/company/floxdev
http://twitter.com/floxdevelopment

The enterprise version is expected later this year and interested parties can sign up here to be thefirst to know when it's available.

To stay on the cutting edge of flox development and releases, sign up for its Discourse and follow flox
on GitHub.

About flox

flox brings the power of Nix to everyone by offering the first end-to-end solution that empowers teams
to accelerate and simplify their Systems Development Life Cycle. flox is the secure way to manageand deploy software in isolated and reproducible development or runtime environments. For more
information, please visit: https://floxdev.com.

http://floxdev.com
http://github.com/flox/flox

http://linkedin.com/company/floxdev
http://twitter.com/floxdevelopment