> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://site.aspect.build/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Bootstrap Complete: Aspect Build Raises $3.85M to Enable Developers in Massive, Multi-Language Codebases

> Aspect Build raises $3.85M to enhance dev workflows for multi-language codebases, driving faster, reliable, and scalable software development

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<BlogPost title="Bootstrap Complete: Aspect Build Raises $3.85M to Enable Developers in Massive, Multi-Language Codebases" date="2024-10-01" authors="Alex Eagle" tags="Company">
  <img noZoom src="https://mintcdn.com/aspectbuild/x1L7Iep716jCyJVo/images/blog/hashnode/hn-bf327746dd.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=x1L7Iep716jCyJVo&q=85&s=0012d12e369a5cd5a1fcabac2b8e3872" alt="" className="blog-post-cover" width="3200" height="1680" data-path="images/blog/hashnode/hn-bf327746dd.png" />

  Today we are thrilled to be featured in [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/aspect-build-gets-3-85m-to-help-developers-create-software-with-bazel/), announcing that **Aspect Build** has raised \$3.85M in pre-seed and seed round funding led by **FirstMark**, with participation from **Preston-Werner Ventures** and several angel investors. This funding will accelerate the growth of our product, **Aspect Workflows** as we continue to empower software teams to overcome the challenges of modern development, enabling them to ship faster, more reliably, and at larger scale.

  **Addressing the Productivity Bottlenecks**

  It’s 2024, and many engineering organizations still struggle with slow, costly, and unpredictable developer workflows! The causes vary from unreliable dependency management, brittle IDE configuration, slow builds, and the impracticality of automated integration testing. Despite advancements in the DevOps stack like containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, the increasing complexity of software projects is driving up build times and slowing down teams. As projects grow, particularly with the rise of **monorepos** and reliance on **third-party dependencies**, idiomatic language-specific tooling is becoming a major bottleneck for companies striving to deliver features quickly and securely at scale.

  At Aspect, we are uncomfortably excited to solve these problems. By mastering advanced techniques such as **remote execution and** **caching** and **hermetic dependency management**, we help teams eliminate the delays caused by slow and flaky builds. We bring developers along with us thanks to unrelenting focus on ergonomics, documentation, and support. Our system optimizes every step of the build process, ensuring that development teams can focus on creating and shipping great products.

  **Our Journey: bootstrapping from Google**

  **Greg Magolan** and I [first worked together](https://github.com/gregmagolan/abc-demo-build-with-aot-universal) at Google on the Angular team adopting **Bazel**, a large-scale multi-language build system that pioneered how massive organizations like Google handled complex software builds. We loved that Google decided to open-source the tool, but it was very clear that companies would have difficulty achieving the benefits promised in the [Bazel 1.0 blog post](https://blog.bazel.build/2019/10/17/bazel-reaches-10-milestone.html).

  Rather than start with venture funding, we bootstrapped for three years by providing Bazel consulting services to over 50 companies. This gave us a front-row seat to witness painful bottlenecks that processes like dependency management, builds and Continuous Integration can create, and also the first taste of success in helping early customers overcome them.

  Aspect placed a big bet on our [Open Source Software](https://github.com/aspect-build), which for us is both a passion and our code of ethics. We’ve been the authors of Bazel’s JavaScript and TypeScript support from the beginning, and have added Docker (OCI), Python, and more. Just recently, the [Bazel Central Registry](https://registry.bazel.build/) got its 2,000th entry, and we’re proud that 23% of those are from Aspect! I was also the catalyst for moving Bazel’s community and yearly conference to the Linux Foundation, setting the stage for meaningful community governance.

  With **Aspect Workflows**, we’re layering on our open-source and bringing that same level of optimization from our consulting days to a wider audience, helping software teams scale their workflows to manage scale and complexity.

  Since launching, Aspect Workflows has deployed at numerous customers, provided 40-60% cost savings, accelerated builds 10x and tests 2-3x, all while maintaining the reproducibility and security necessary for complex, large-scale development.

  <img noZoom src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdrvBMFMvzcxMWPJsAp06R-jhxwyrez5jpN-VK0vmJFC_V5K49EF_WKL69Xr-fiDVFmqL-wQfc6Q1zxah9xm87aJ5p0NXgbP1hR9eXVUYL2mczipRw5FpesGSnhXEef6dp4sEiB4Yl2rrCjA-uva_LoPp92?key=fc_55_3Qsg0ITiidEeTDLQ" alt="" className="block" />

  **Fueling Our Growth with Seed Funding**

  We met [David Waltcher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwaltcher/) over two years ago. His insight was immediately obvious, as he wrote in his introduction to us, “I’ve been spending a lot of time around Bazel… as the Google family has permeated other organizations, everyone in our network has been raving about the multi-language support and caching.” We’re glad he followed us through our bootstrap journey and our gradual conversion to recurring revenue, and we’re proud to partner with **FirstMark** and **Preston-Werner Ventures**, who bring a wealth of experience in developer tools and share our vision for transforming how software teams operate. With their support, we’re excited to accelerate our product roadmap, expand our team, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in large-scale multi-language software development.

  We frequently share exciting announcements, so follow us at [https://www.linkedin.com/company/aspect-build/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aspect-build/)

  -Alex Eagle

  CEO, Aspect Build
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