Out of all the tiresome and time-consuming chores involved in application development, troubleshooting bugs is perhaps the most tedious. And the more complicated a project is, the harder it can be to identify the cause of an issue. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures today announced a $15 million investment in a startup called Takipi Inc. that has created an analytics service to automate the task for software engineering teams.

The platform consists of a Java agent that runs in an organization’s application environment to collect operational information and a graph processing engine designed to analyze the data for useful patterns. According to Takipi, its algorithms are able to map out the relationships between the different components of a workload to identify exactly how a particular piece of code can influence another’s behavior and why. The information gleaned during the process enables its service to quickly follow an error back to the specific functions and parameters responsible after it’s detected.

The issue then is displayed in a visual dashboard that allows a developer to find all the technical details necessary to create a fix, along with useful data about the other outstanding bugs in their applications. For added measure, Takipi also helpfully color-codes each entry based on its severity to let engineering teams prioritize their efforts more effectively and thereby enable their organization’s end-users to resume work faster after an disruption. The startup says that its service is currently used by more than 120 companies to support their software development efforts, including Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd,  TripAdvisor Inc. and outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd.

The new funding is designed to help Takipi expand its client roster even further. To that end, the startup plans to invest in the development of new features for its service and hire more salespeople to drive adoption. It’s targeting both large enterprises and mid-sized organizations that employ fewer developers, but deal with many of the same challenges when it comes to fixing bugs. Reducing the amount of time that engineers have to spend troubleshooting their applications can enable a company to produce a lot more code in a given time and thereby speed up release cycles considerably.

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