---
title: "Heroku: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-heroku
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2350702
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
website: https://www.heroku.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Heroku

> Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-heroku

## Facts

- Category: Data and infrastructure
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2007-01-01
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.heroku.com/
- Industries: platform as a service

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/heroku
- github: https://github.com/heroku
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Heroku
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heroku

## Key people

- Yukihiro Matsumoto (Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2010-05-17: Form D, USD 10 million sold of a USD 10 million offering, 7 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492046/000149204610000001/))

## Investors

- [Y Combinator](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-y-combinator.md)

## Ownership

Parent: [Salesforce](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-salesforce.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Heroku, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-heroku#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2350702, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001492046

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