Pure Software

Pure Software
IndustrySoftware development tools
FoundedOctober 1991
FounderReed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box
FateMerged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software
SuccessorPure Atria Corporation
Headquarters,
United States
ProductsPurify, Quantify, PureLink

Pure Software was an American software development tools company founded in October 1991 by Reed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box. Its flagship product was Purify, a debugging and memory leak detection tool for Unix software applications written in C. The company is notable as the first significant venture of Reed Hastings, who later co-founded Netflix.