The company was founded in 1989 by Rob Mee and Sherry Erskine.[1] In 2008 Pivotal Labs released Pivotal Tracker, which was used as their internal project management and collaboration software.[citation needed]EMC acquired Pivotal Labs, and in March 2013, Pivotal Software was formed after spinning out of EMC and VMware.[2]
In October 2013, Pivotal acquired Toronto-based Xtreme Labs, a mobile app development company.[3] Xtreme Labs' clients included Microsoft and Groupon.[4]
In December 2019, Pivotal Labs was acquired by VMware and renamed VMware Tanzu Labs.[5][6]
Products and Services
The company used pair programming while doing its software development and also consulted with other companies to help them use the method.[2] The company provided consulting programming for several large technology companies in San Francisco.[7]