AppDynamics was founded in 2008 by
Jyoti Bansal, a former lead software architect at
Wily Technologies, a provider of application performance management technology. AppDynamics received five rounds of funding totaling $206.5 Million. On April 10, 2013,
CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District in New York. The lawsuit claims that AppDynamics violated three patents that came into CA Technologies' possession through acquisitions. This was the second action CA Technologies filed in connection with alleged infringement of patents obtained in the acquisition of Wily Technology. In November 2012, CA Technologies filed a lawsuit asserting patent infringement of the same three APM patents against software company,
New Relic. On April 20, 2015, AppDynamics and CA settled the two-year-old patent dispute. AppDynamics said that it paid a "modest fixed payment." In January 2017, Cisco acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before a planned
IPO of the company. In March 2017, Cisco completed the acquisition of AppDynamics. == References ==