About Agilis
Agilis Software is an infrastructure-software company headquartered in downtown San Francisco. Founded in 2002, we serve a worldwide customer base.
We develop software license management products used by software vendors and hardware/software-systems vendors across a range of industries. Our products are particularly suited to agile companies with complex licensing requirements in enterprise software, embedded systems, and cloud software.
We run a low-impact operation: information technology and the internet replace travel, shipping, and paperwork wherever they reasonably can.
Agilis is self-funded and profitable, with zero debt.
About You
The companies that get the most value from our products are agile ISVs, cloud service providers, and embedded-system vendors with sophisticated, evolving licensing requirements. Our differentiators are technical depth and breadth of capability and platform support.
Our Nephele license subscription service extends the same capability set to small companies on a budget — with a clear scaling path as your market grows.
Why Agilis
We build what we believe are the highest-value commercial license-management products on the market, backed by strong technical support. License management is the only thing we do.
We focus on professionalism and integrity. To our detriment — and to your benefit — we’re perfectionists about both the product and the OEM customer relationship. We want every interaction with us to leave you set up to succeed.
Our Story
Agilis launched in September 2002 as a self-funded startup, alongside its first product: EasyLicenser, a low-cost, license-key-based manager that combined ease of use with versatility and security. We made our first sale online six weeks after launch and built a worldwide customer base over the years that followed.
Customer feedback made it clear that license-key systems like EasyLicenser solved many requirements but missed others — specifically, the need for a frictionless system with greater flexibility and "trust but verify" non-intrusiveness. Cloud and enterprise software added more. In response we built Orion, an internet-protocol-based network licensing platform, engineered category by category to ship clear advantages over competing products.
As we sold Orion, customers wanted a hosted option that would take uptime risk, infrastructure, setup, and operations cost off their plate. We engineered Orion for multi-tenancy and packaged it as the Acropolis hosting service.
By that point we had moved to an OEM sales model, which made our products most accessible to established companies. Smaller companies — especially early-stage startups — needed a way to manage payment terms and risk capital outlay, and to scale up as the business grew, all without giving up licensing capability. In response, we engineered Orion (and our website and business processes) to deliver Nephele: a cloud-based monthly license-subscription service with tiered pricing.
Management
Vinay Sabharwal | CEO & CTO
Background: Over twenty years of experience as an engineering manager, architect, and consultant in OLTP systems, database internals, middleware, and applications — at database and middleware companies including Oracle, Tandem, and several startups, and at enterprise/eCommerce/internet companies including Lycos and Hewlett-Packard.
Education: MSCS, University of Wisconsin–Madison; BSEE, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.