Backed by GV (Google Ventures), SYN Ventures, Blackstone Innovations Investments, and Bessemer Venture Partners, Crash Override helps Fortune 100 teams automate total visibility across the software delivery pipeline

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Crash Override, the first Engineering Relationship Management (ERM) platform, today announced its $28 million seed round led by GV (Google Ventures) and SYN Ventures, with participation from Blackstone Innovations Investments, and Bessemer Venture Partners. This announcement marks a significant milestone, as ERM delivers the same strategic visibility and control across infrastructure, code, tools, and contributors that CRMs bring to customer relationships. Erik Nordlander, General Partner at GV, and Jay Leek, Managing Partner at SYN Ventures, have joined the Crash Override team as board members.

Modern software environments are complex, with unclear ownership, duplicative tooling, and limited visibility into how systems are built, deployed, and changed. When systems go down due to incidents, outages, or security failures, the cost is immediate, and confidence takes a hit. Monitoring tools alert you to issues, but ERM provides the context to recover fast, remove rogue systems, and build resilience across the software delivery pipeline. Crash Override’s ERM platform offers the world’s first and only build inspection technology that automatically catalogs workloads and maintains a real-time change ledger for full traceability across code, infrastructure, and teams. It gives leaders a single source of truth that helps them understand what changed, when, and why. The financing will accelerate product development, advance innovation, and support market expansion while strengthening partner and ecosystem alignment.

Single Source of Engineering Truth

“When software breaks, companies can spend half the day just trying to answer basic questions like ‘what is this?’, ‘who owns it?’, and ‘what changed?’. Instead of bringing 30 people into a triage call, we can provide those answers instantly. Crash Override makes it easy to track the data no one else could before, exposing relationships between code, tools, and teams to cut costs, reduce risk, and get engineers back to building,” said John Viega, Co-Founder and CEO of Crash Override. “Our partnership with GV, SYN Ventures, Blackstone, and Bessemer strengthens our ability to bring this clarity to more organizations that are ready to move faster and stay secure.”

“Every engineering team grapples with sprawling codebases and increasing degrees of complexity in the age of AI. Crash Override is building the definitive system of record for engineering, giving teams the crucial visibility and traceability they desperately need as the explosion of LLM-derived code can introduce new unseen intricacies and vulnerabilities,” said Erik Nordlander, General Partner at GV. “Founders John Viega and Mark Curphey are security veterans with deep industry ties, and we’re excited to support the team as they deliver essential transparency across the entire software deployment lifecycle.”

“We’ve seen countless startups try to address the chaos in modern software delivery, but none have connected the dots like Crash Override,” said Jay Leek, Managing Partner at SYN Ventures. “They’re arriving at exactly the right moment, as GenAI accelerates complexity and forces organizations to rethink how they govern engineering.”

Industry Impact

Crash Override was founded in 2022 by John Viega and Mark Curphey. Viega is a pioneer in application security, author of eight books, and creator of several foundational open-source projects. His previous ventures include Capsule8 (acquired by Sophos) and executive roles at McAfee and Raytheon. Curphey, who founded OWASP in 2002, was an early employee at Foundstone founded by George Kurtz, and led the services team following its acquisition by McAfee. He was the founding CEO of SourceClear (acquired by Veracode) and held senior engineering and product leadership roles at Microsoft and Veracode.

“I’ve worked with the team behind Crash Override for years. They’ve each played a role in moving the industry forward, and this is their most impactful effort yet,” said Gabriel Lawrence, VP, Information Security Cyber Protection at Toyota Motor North America. “For the first time, I can understand how applications flow from build systems into cloud environments in real time. That deployment timeline is incredibly valuable. Just as important is knowing exactly where those artifacts end up, which has become essential for incident response. This level of visibility simply hasn’t existed until now.”

As part of the transaction, Blackstone contributed an internally developed codebase that acts as a modular scanning and orchestration framework called Ocular. Ocular will aim to enhance Crash Override’s ability to analyze AI-generated code and deliver actionable software intelligence to improve developer efficiency. A significant portion of the codebase will be open-sourced with the aim to democratize access to robust security scanning capabilities for enterprises and individual security researchers alike.

“We built Ocular to help enable our teams to scan and understand code at scale with flexibility and precision,” said Adam Fletcher, Chief Security Officer at Blackstone. “We believe in Crash Override’s mission and see a clear opportunity to bring these capabilities together. The combination of a flexible scanning foundation like Ocular with Crash Override’s vision for engineering relationship management will help drive innovation in how organizations secure and understand their software supply chains.”

About Crash Override

Crash Override is the Engineering Relationship Management (ERM) platform that automates total visibility across your software delivery pipeline. It connects your cloud, code, and build systems to create a single source of truth for your entire engineering environment. Embedded in the build process, every artifact is tracked to maintain a catalog of infrastructure, builds, and deployments. Changes are recorded in a real-time change ledger, providing full traceability of what changed, when, and why. Campaigns guide teams to take action by generating issues to coordinate resolution and track progress. From commit to runtime, Crash Override gives engineering and security teams a unified, real-time view of what they have, how it’s changing, and what to do next.

Learn more at crashoverride.com, on the Crash Override blog, and on LinkedIn.

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