Pure Software
AcquiredSunnyvale, United States · Founded 1991
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, California
- Founded
- 1991
- Business Model
- B2B
- Acquisition Date
- Aug 1997
About
Pure Software was an American software development tools company founded in October 1991 by Reed Hastings, Raymond Peck, and Mark Box. Its flagship product, Purify, was a debugging and memory-leak detection tool for Unix software written in C, later joined by the Quantify performance profiler and the PureLink linker tool. The company went public on NASDAQ in August 1995 before merging with Atria Software in 1996 to form Pure Atria Corporation, which Rational Software acquired in 1997.
Summary
Pure Software is a Developer Tools company based in Sunnyvale, United States, founded in 1991.
Funding History
Aug 1997
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