Sofy, a Seattle startup that gives builders and high quality evaluation professionals a no-code platform to check their cellular apps, has raised $7.75 million in new funding.
The money can be used to increase the platform’s capabilities to serve net and API features, an addition to its present capacity to check cellular apps, CEO and co-founder Sayed Hamid informed Startup in an e-mail. He added that the corporate may even increase its gross sales and advertising workforce, doubling its headcount by the top of the yr.
The 35-person startup was co-founded in 2016 by Hamid and Hyder Ali, who each spent a bulk of their careers in engineering management roles at Microsoft. They’re joined by Usman Zubair, one other earlier Microsoft engineer who has began numerous software program corporations.
Sofy is at the moment being utilized by 45 clients, together with Microsoft and Alight, with a complete person base of 15,000. The startup quadrupled in measurement final yr and is heading in the right direction to repeat that development by the top of this yr.
Sofy’s patented tech can run diagnostics on each iOS and Android apps. Builders and high quality assurance professionals can check their app’s efficiency, create automation, assessment efficiency outcomes, and diagnose visible high quality and community points, Hamid stated. They’ll do all this with out writing a single line of code.
“No-code check automation is reworking the $4 billion cellular software testing market and bringing great positive factors to the software program improvement and deployment course of,” James Newell, a companion at Voyager Capital who’s becoming a member of Sofy’s board of administrators, stated in a press release.
Sofy might want to compete with a rising variety of startups going after this particular market, together with well-funded gamers corresponding to Browerstack and Applause, together with newcomers together with Autify and Waldo.
“Whereas our rivals are centered on check automation creation, Sofy has taken a holistic view of the QA course of,” Hamid stated. The startup presents greater than 10 totally different specialised instruments for high quality assurance of cellular apps, which may improve an organization’s testing effectivity, he added.
Sofy has raised a complete of $9.6 million so far. The present spherical was led by Voyager Capital, with further funding from PSL Ventures, GTMFund, Revolution, and others. Julie Sandler, managing director at PSL Ventures, can be an observer on the startup’s board of administrators as a part of the funding spherical.