- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "founded_year", "values": [2017, 2018], "note": "Tracxn reports 2017; YC and PR Newswire report 2018", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html"]}, {"field": "headquarters", "values": ["Sacramento, United States", "San Francisco, California, United States"], "note": "Tracxn lists Sacramento; YC, PR, and LinkedIn list San Francisco", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html"]}, {"field": "total_funding", "values": ["$30.0M", "$30.4M", "$30.1M"], "note": "PR Newswire states $30M; Tracxn/PitchBook $30.4M; LinkedIn company snippet $30.1M", "source_urls": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0/funding-and-investors", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samalba"]}, {"field": "funding_round_count", "values": ["3 rounds (pre-seed + seed + Series A)", "2 rounds (Seed + Series A)"], "note": "PR Newswire describes $3M pre-seed and $7M seed separately; Tracxn consolidates into one $10.4M seed", "source_urls": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0/funding-and-investors"]}, {"field": "employee_count", "values": [22, 17, 13], "note": "YC page 22; Tracxn 17 (Apr 2026); LinkedIn company data 13 with -41% YoY", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samalba"]}, {"field": "founders_listed", "values": ["Solomon Hykes only on YC page", "Three co-founders per PR and LinkedIn"], "note": "YC company page shows only Solomon Hykes; Sam Alba and Andrea Luzzardi omitted despite being named co-founders elsewhere", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html", "https://foundertrace.com/companies/dagger/"]}, {"field": "name_collision", "values": ["Dagger.io (CI/CD)", "Google Dagger (Android/Java dependency injection at dagger.dev)"], "note": "Same 'Dagger' name causes search and documentation confusion; unrelated products", "source_urls": ["https://blog.aspect.build/dagger-and-bazel", "https://www.puzzle.ch/blog/2024/01/09/navigating-dagger-a-tech-journey-from-novice-to-ninja", "https://github.com/google/dagger", "https://dagger.dev/dev-guide/"]}, {"field": "leadership_transition", "values": ["Sam Alba and Andrea Luzzardi departed 2025", "Solomon Hykes remained at Dagger"], "note": "Departed co-founders launched Mendral (YC W26); no formal public announcement of leadership change found beyond LinkedIn profiles", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/samalba", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aluzzardi", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mendral"]}, {"field": "last_funding_gap", "values": ["Last disclosed round Mar 2022", "No public Series B or later round found"], "note": "No funding updates since Series A (Mar 2022) in sourced materials", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0/funding-and-investors", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://blog.aspect.build/dagger-and-bazel", "https://dagger.dev/dev-guide/", "https://dagger.io", "https://foundertrace.com/companies/dagger/", "https://github.com/dagger", "https://github.com/dagger/container-use", "https://github.com/dagger/dagger", "https://github.com/dagger/dagger-for-github", "https://github.com/google/dagger", "https://mendral.com/about", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dagger/___L6WpRvdrt3PQiR0VF9rnQvgB0-jJOfv9FmPt1f__L0/funding-and-investors", "https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08/20/uniting-the-cloud-native-community-at-the-inaugural-kcd-sf-bay-area/", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aluzzardi", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samalba", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dagger-launches-devops-operating-system-with-20m-series-a-led-by-redpoint-ventures-301513656.html", "https://www.puzzle.ch/blog/2024/01/09/navigating-dagger-a-tech-journey-from-novice-to-ninja", "https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/speakers", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mendral"]