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BrowserStack raises $200 mn funding at $4 billion valuation

DUBLIN and SAN FRANCISCO, 16th June 2021: World’s leading software testing platform BrowserStack raises USD 200 million in funding, led by BOND. The Series B round, which valued the company at USD 4 billion, also saw participation from Insight Partners and existing investor, Accel, a statement said. BrowserStack offers software testing on the cloud and has over 50,000 customers and more than four million developer signups across 135 countries. Its products help developers build bug-free software. BrowserStack was founded in 2011 at a coffee shop to solve one problem testing on different browsers, leading to BrowserStack’s first version, which helped developers test their websites on Internet Explorer 11. The investment will support BrowserStack’s strategic acquisitions, expansion...

BrowserStack Acquires Bay Area Company Percy

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2020 -- BrowserStack, the world's leading web and mobile app testing platform, today announced the acquisition of Percy, the leading visual testing and review platform. With this acquisition, developers and quality assurance (QA) teams can run everything from visual tests to manual and automated functional tests on BrowserStack's infrastructure and ship high-quality software at speed. Today, agile teams deploy code to production hundreds of times a day. Maintaining this release velocity without introducing visual bugs is close to impossible. Percy helps teams automate visual testing by capturing screenshots and comparing them against the baseline, and highlighting visual changes. With increased visual coverage, teams can confidently deploy code changes with ever...

Mumbai Based Web Testing Platform BrowserStack Raises $50 Million Funding

Mumbai based mobile and web testing service platform BrowserStack raised $50 million venture funding from led by venture fund Accel Partners ( Accel US and India). The six-year-old Mumbai-based company now valued more than $400 million. The company was operating on bootstrap model and running profitable from last six years and this is also be the largest series A round for an Indian tech startup. The platform is used by over two million developers in 135 countries. It has more than 25,000 paying customers, including Microsoft, Twitter, and Mastercard. The majority of its customers are based in North America. Founded in 2011 by IIT Bombay alumni Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal, BrowserStack helps developers test their applications across thousands of operating systems. Accel's Rya...