

Coherence
By Coherence Technologies
Coherence is a modern Developer Experience Platform (DXP) that helps engineering teams build, deploy, and manage software faster, more securely, and with less overhead. It automates the complexities of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, environment provisioning, and compliance workflows—so developers can focus on writing code.
The company positions itself as “the layer between your code and the cloud.”
Founded: 2021
Founders:
Zachary Zaro (ex-Spotify, product/infra background)
Zan Faruqui (ex-Goldman Sachs, legal and operations)
Headquarters: New York, United States
The company was started to eliminate common frustrations in modern software development, such as managing CI/CD, compliance processes, and spinning up consistent environments. Their goal: "make shipping software as simple as writing it."
Coherence has grown rapidly since launch, thanks to a combination of product-led development and early traction from forward-thinking tech teams.
Seed Funding Raised: $3.9 million (April 2022)
Lead Investor: First Round Capital
Other Investors:
Flybridge Capital
RRE Ventures
25Madison
Correlation Ventures
Angel Investors:
Jean-Denis Greze (CTO, Plaid)
Kate Ryder (CEO, Maven Clinic)
Coherence offers a developer-centric platform for full-stack software lifecycle management. Key features include:
Pre-configured VPCs, databases, load balancers, and secrets management.
Git-based workflows with built-in security and audit trails.
Replica environments with full isolation.
Workflow gating and change controls with logs for audit readiness.
Deployment metrics and runtime logs built in.
Compliance Workflow Generator – auto-generates audit-ready logs for any action
Live Preview Links – instant environment previews tied to pull requests
Pre-code Workflows – policies that run before code is even pushed
Terraform Sync – for teams still using Infra-as-Code
Coherence internal philosophy focuses on:
Empowerment over friction: Reducing dev toil ("yak shaving") by replacing manual setup and infra tasks with intuitive workflows.
Build what we’d use ourselves: The founders emphasize real-world empathy for devs.
Security-first thinking: Compliance, audits, and deployment safety are built in, not bolted on.
Target Users:
DevOps and platform engineering teams
CTOs and startups needing audit-ready CI/CD
Mid-sized dev teams with 5–100 engineers
Industries:
Healthtech
Fintech
SaaS startups
Enterprise software vendors
Community Engagement:
Slack-based community for devs and ops teams
Blog and tutorials focused on DX best practices