Postman (software)

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Postman
Original author(s) Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, Abhijit Kane
Stable release
v11 / May 1, 2024;14 days ago (2024-05-01)
Type Software testing
License proprietary software
Website www.postman.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Postman is a global software company that offers an API platform for developers to design, build, test, and collaborate on APIs. [1]

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Over 30 million registered users and 500,000 organizations use Postman. [2]

Postman also maintains the Postman API Network, a directory of over 100,000 public APIs that is listed as the world’s largest. [3]

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has additional offices in Tokyo and Bangalore, where Postman was founded.

History

Postman started in 2012 as a side project of software engineer Abhinav Asthana, who wanted to simplify API testing while working at Yahoo Bangalore. [4] He named his app Postman – a play on the API request “POST” – and offered it free in the Chrome Web Store.

As the app's usage grew, Abhinav recruited former colleagues Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane to help create Postman, Inc. The three co-founders lead the company today, with Abhinav serving as CEO and Sobti as CTO.

In 2023, Postman announced it had acquired Akita, an API observability solution. [5] In 2024, Postman acquired Orbit, a solution for building and managing developer communities. [6]

Features

Postman features include:

Postman v11 was released in May 2024. Features that generated news in tech media include AI-powered assistants to help with API test generation, documentation, debugging, and data visualization, as well as broader sharing of API collections with external partners. [7]

Business model

Postman offers tiered pricing, ranging from free options for small teams to paid plans for larger companies and enterprises.

Ownership

Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners, CRV, Insight Partners, Coatue, Battery Ventures, and Mary Meeker’s BOND.

In May 2015, the company raised a $1 million seed round. In August 2021, Postman raised a $225 million Series D round at a $5.6 billion valuation.

Postman has been named a member of Forbes' Cloud 100 for the past three years, placing most recently at #42. [8]

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