Companies

Interfere

interfere.com

Interfere helps product teams detect, understand, triage, and fix software problems before customers encounter them.

HQNew York City, New York, United States
Employees1-50
4 active roles
Jobs checked 4d ago
Specialization
Not classified
Business
Software Applications
Market
Software Development
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Developersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
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Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Software Development
Customers
Developers, Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software
Revenue models
Subscription
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Seed
Reported funding amount
Not classified

About

Interfere builds an AI-powered production-visibility platform for engineering, product, and design teams. It continuously detects changes in application behavior, explains root causes and user impact beyond traditional logs and metrics, then suggests code-linked fixes and tracks resolution.

Market

Interfere competes in application observability, developer infrastructure, error monitoring, and AI-assisted software reliability. Unlike conventional tools that primarily provide dashboards, alerts, logs, and traces, Interfere positions itself as an automated investigation and resolution layer: it correlates signals into user-impacting problems, explains root causes, proposes fixes, and tracks resolution while making the output accessible to product and design teams as well as engineers.

Target Customers

Interfere targets software product teams shipping web and mobile applications, including engineering, product-management, and design stakeholders. Its positioning is broad enough for teams of any size, with engineering leaders and cross-functional product teams as likely buyers and users.

At a Glance

Problem

Interfere addresses the gap between conventional observability and the problems users actually experience in production. Modern teams may have logs, dashboards, traces, and session replay, yet still discover too many failures from customers. The pain is both operational and economic: engineers spend time chasing bugs instead of building features, while product managers, designers, and founders lack a shared, real-time view of how the product works in the real world.

The clearest use case is an invisible product-flow failure such as a broken password-reset link. Interfere’s example shows a surge in failed reset attempts affecting 12,881 users, with users clicking the links but failing to complete the flow. This illustrates the company’s core value proposition: finding high-impact behavioral failures before they become support issues, lost usage, or customer-discovered defects. The company’s materials frame the cost primarily as diverted engineering time and widespread user impact, rather than publishing a specific dollar estimate.

Product / Service

Interfere is a production-visibility and autonomous software-repair platform. It continuously monitors application behavior and outcomes, detects changes before errors escalate, explains what is broken, why it is happening, and who is affected, and goes beyond traditional logs, metrics, and traces. Its workflow is organized around finding issues, understanding their root causes, and owning resolution from the first signal through production.

The product turns those findings into action by suggesting fixes linked to the codebase and tracking progress until resolution, while keeping the team in control. Interfere’s stated longer-term “self-healing” vision adds agentic workflows that can triage issues, reason through codebases and runtime behavior, generate trusted fixes, and potentially ship them without human intervention. The intended benefit is to give engineers, PMs, designers, and founders a shared understanding of product failures while reducing the manual work required to diagnose and repair them.

Market

Interfere competes at the intersection of application observability, error monitoring, developer tooling, and AI-assisted software debugging. It is positioning itself as a new “self-healing layer” or experience layer for modern product teams rather than as a conventional logs-and-dashboards product; its own recruiting materials acknowledge that the category is still being defined. The closest established adjacent substitutes are Sentry, which is oriented toward error tracking, and Datadog, which provides broader full-stack observability. Interfere’s differentiation is the attempt to connect real-user behavior to root-cause analysis and suggested or autonomous remediation, not merely to report an error.

Interfere is an early-stage company rather than a business with publicly demonstrated revenue scale. It was founded in 2025, is a YC Summer 2025 company with an active eight-person New York team, and recruiting materials say it has raised more than $5.1 million from Y Combinator, Vercel Ventures, Hummingbird, Designer Fund, and others. It is already running in production with unnamed design partners, which is meaningful early traction; however, the evidence reviewed does not disclose revenue, pricing, or a named customer list, so it is best characterized as having production design-partner traction with commercial scale still unproven.

Founders & Leadership

Luke ShielsFounder
Founder & CEO

Funding History

2025-06
Seed$2M
2025-10
Seed$3M

Hummingbird Ventures

Recent News

2026-08-10funding
Interfere reports over $5.1M raised

Interfere publicly states that it has raised more than $5.1 million from investors including Y Combinator, Vercel Ventures, Hummingbird, and Designer Fund. The disclosure appeared on a public Interfere hiring page surfaced within the reporting window, but it does not identify a newly closed round.

2026-06-30product_launch
Welcome to Interfere

Interfere’s product documentation describes a platform that monitors everything an application ships and turns telemetry into investigated, explained problems for product teams.

2026-01-31product_launch
OAuth applications & scoped API keys

Interfere introduced OAuth applications and granularly scoped API keys, enabling developers to build custom integrations.

2025-10-01funding
Interfere - $3M Seed

Interfere announced a $3 million seed funding round in October 2025. Directory data reports total funding of approximately $5 million across two rounds.

Active Roles

4
OnSite - New York City/Engineering/79d ago
OnSite - New York City/Engineering/79d ago
Opportunistic$150k – $250k
OnSite - New York City/Engineering/79d ago
OnSite - New York City/Engineering/79d ago

Business Model

Interfere monetizes through paid software subscriptions. Its terms provide for recurring automatic renewals, plan-dependent billing cycles, and subscription-fee changes, with payments processed through Stripe.

Products

Interfere production-visibility and self-healing software platformSDK-based full-stack monitoring and telemetry across application surfacesAutomated problem detection, prioritization, investigation, root-cause explanation, fix recommendation, and resolution tracking

Tech Stack

SDK-based application instrumentationFull-stack observability telemetry for errors, sessions, traces, and logs, with no samplingAutomated issue triage, hypothesis testing, root-cause analysis, and fix suggestionsGitHub and Slack integrationsSAML/OIDC SSO and SCIM provisioning for enterprise access

Competitors

Sentry, including Seer
Datadog, including Bits Investigation
New Relic