Automated web app testing startup ProdPerfect raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital

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Automated web app testing startup ProdPerfect raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital

This morning ProdPerfect, a technology startup focused on web application testing, announced a $13 million Series A led by Anthos Capital. Anthos is perhaps best known for investing in Honey, a startup which recently sold to PayPal for several billion dollars.

ProdPerfect, a remote-focused company, closed a $2.6 million Seed round earlier in 2019. Fika Ventures and Eniac Ventures took part in the Series A after also putting capital into the company in the company's preceding seed investment. The startup has now raised $15.7 million across three rounds, according to Crunchbase.

What does ProdPerfect's product do regarding testing? And what is it going to do with all its new money? TechCrunch chatted with Dan Widing, ProdPerfect's founder and CEO to answer those questions, and learn how quickly the company is growing.

Testing

ProdPerfect automates end-to-end testing for web developers. According to Widing, the product "followed some of the lessons of the product analytics industry to build a tool that lets us quantitatively understand how our customer's live users traverse the customer's web application." The company estimates that "many companies are compelled to put around 20% of their engineering budget into staffing a QA engineering department," spend that it reckons it can help cut.

The web is a big place, with lots of pages and apps and more built and maintained by a global army of developers. Those end products requires testing to find errors and bugs that could cause havoc for end users and companies alike. You can test well, or poorly. But according to Widing, the "gold standard of web testing is either directly or indirectly controlling a bro



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