Amazon has struck a licensing deal with a small Seattle startup called Intentionet, the company behind the Batfish open source project that helps engineers design and test networks.
Batfish is now an open source project managed by Amazon Web Services and remains available under the same open source license.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the transaction. Although the transaction will result in fewer than 12 Intentionet employees joining Amazon, it is not considered an acquisition.
Intentionet’s enterprise products can predict the impact of network changes before they go into production, flagging outages and security vulnerabilities.
Founded in 2017, Intentionet is led by CEO Ratul Mahajan, a former principal scientist at Microsoft and now an associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of Computer Science. He co-founded Intentionet with Todd Millstein, a UCLA computer science professor, and Ari Fogel, a former graduate student researcher at his UCLA who holds a PhD in computer science. Mahajan and Millstein received their Ph.D from UW.
The company raised $3 million in 2017 in a round led by True Ventures’ Om Malik.
