INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PullRequest, a startup that provides code review as a service, announced today that it was buying Moonlight, an early-stage startup that has
built an online platform for hiring remote developers
The companies did not share the terms.Lyal Avery, founder and CEO at PullRequest, says he bought this company to expand his range of
In order to do that, we have to have access to people producing code
So with the developers on our platform that are currently reviewers, as well as the Moonlight folks, we can start to fix the issues we
He says that from the time a bug is found in website code to the time it gets fixed is on average about six hours
He wants to reduce that to 20 minutes, and he believes that buying Moonlight will give him more data to get to that goal faster, while also
million (according to Crunchbase data) to be out shopping for another, but Avery sees buying small companies like Moonlight as an excellent
way to fill in gaps in the platform, while offering an easier path to expansion.Moonlight is a small shop with just two employees, both who
will be joining PullRequest, but it has 3,000 developers on the platform, which PullRequest can now access
For now, Avery says the companies will remain separate, and Moonlight will continue to operate its own website under the PullRequest
umbrella.Moonlight is based in Brooklyn; it had raised an unidentified pre-seed round before being acquired today
PullRequest, which is based in Austin, was a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2017 cohort
It raised a $2.3 million seed round in December, 2017 and another $8 million in April, 2018.
