Crash Override, a New York-based Engineering Relationship Management (ERM) platform, has raised $28 million in a seed funding round.
Investors
The round was led by GV (Google Ventures) and SYN Ventures, with participation from Blackstone Innovations Investments and Bessemer Venture Partners.
GV, founded in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, manages over $10 billion in assets. It focuses on enterprise, life sciences, consumer, and frontier technologies, supporting approximately 400 active portfolio companies across North America, Europe, and Israel. GV is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Cambridge, London, and New York.
SYN Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in cybersecurity, industrial security, national defense, and data privacy. The firm manages over $600 million across multiple funds and supports founders with capital, operational scaling, and go-to-market strategies tailored to security-focused innovation.
Erik Nordlander, General Partner at GV, and Jay Leek, Managing Partner at SYN Ventures, have joined the Crash Override team as board members.
Crash Override Use of Funds
The company will use the funding to accelerate product development, support market expansion, and enhance partnerships and ecosystem alignment.
About Crash Override
Founded in 2022 by John Viega and Mark Curphey, Crash Override is an Engineering Relationship Management (ERM) platform that automates total visibility across your software delivery pipeline. It is designed to provide complete, real-time visibility into modern software delivery pipelines. The platform offers build inspection technology that catalogs workloads and maintains a real-time change ledger across code, infrastructure, and teams.
Funding Details
Company: Crash Override Inc.
Raised: $28.0M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: July 2025
Lead Investors: GV (Google Ventures), SYN Ventures
Additional Investors: Blackstone Innovations Investments, Bessemer Venture Partners
Company Website: https://crashoverride.com/
Software Category: Engineering Relationship Management / DevOps / Software Supply Chain Security
Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250715794118/en/