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Azul Systems, Inc. (also known as Azul) is a company that develops and distributes runtime system (JDK, JRE, JVM) for executing Java-based applications. The company was founded in March 2002. Azul Systems has headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
With the introduction of Azul Platform Prime in 2010, the company transitioned to producing software-only products. It retired its hardware appliance Vega product lines in 2013. Stephen DeWitt previously held the position of CEO.
On April 1, 2020, Azul announced that it had closed a strategic growth equity investment led by London-based Vitruvian Partners and New York-based Lead Edge Capital. In the agreement, Azul shareholders were expected to receive a total of approximately $340 million in consideration. Based on public filings,
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> California Department of Business Oversight Database Azul had raised more than $200M in financing to date.
In November 2025, Azul announced a definitive agreement for a majority strategic investment from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Existing backers Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital participated with additional capital and will maintain significant minority positions. The investment is intended to further scale Azul’s operations and broaden its footprint in global enterprise and cloud markets. Guggenheim Securities acted as exclusive financial advisor to the company.
Platform Prime is compliant with the associated Java SE version standards. It is based on the same HotSpot JVM and JDK code base used by the Oracle and OpenJDK JDKs, with enhancements relating to garbage collection, JIT compilation, and Warmup behaviors, all aimed at producing improved application execution metrics and performance indicators.
Key feature areas in Platform Prime include:
Formerly known as Zing, it first became available on October 19, 2010. Azul Zing: moving its JVM from silicon to software, ZDNet The company was formerly known for its Vega Java Compute Appliances, specialized hardware designed to use compute resources available to Java applications. Zing utilized and improved on the software technology initially developed for the Vega hardware.
The product has been regularly updated and refreshed since then. Release Notes of Azul Zulu Prime Stream and Stable Builds of OpenJDK
Platform Prime is available for Linux, and requires x86-based hardware powered by Intel or AMD processors. Azul Zulu Prime Builds of OpenJDK System Requirements
Azul produces the jHiccup open-source performance measurement tool for Java applications. It is designed to measure the stalls or "hiccups" caused by an application's underlying Java platform. Azul Releases Open-Source jHiccup Tool to Provide Response Time Analysis of the Java Runtime
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