Pure Software
| Industry | Software development tools |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 1991 |
| Founder | Reed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box |
| Fate | Merged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software |
| Successor | Pure Atria Corporation |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Products | Purify, 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.