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Indian website testing startup BrowserStack raises $50 million from Accel.
Cloud-based website testing tool BrowserStack has raised $50 million in a series A round of funding led by Accel. The company also announced the opening of its new North American headquarters in San Francisco.

Founded out of Mumbai, India, in 2011, BrowserStack enables developers to test how their websites perform with various operating system, device, and browser configurations, all through a cloud-based interface.

The company has so far been entirely bootstrapped, and claims to have been profitable since its inception seven years ago. Though this series A round represents the company’s first outside funding, notable firms including Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, and Warburg Pincus have reportedly been trying to invest in the company for a while. Indeed, Accel partner Ryan Sweeney told VentureBeat that his firm had been chasing BrowserStack for “a couple of years” to take some funding.

“Accel has a long history of empowering developers, with investments in global companies like Atlassian, Slack and PagerDuty,” said Sweeney, who also now joins BrowserStack’s board of directors. “Like these other great developer-oriented software businesses, BrowserStack puts an emphasis on making developers’ lives easier through its powerful and intuitive products. The rapid growth of software development combined with shorter software release cycles has put an emphasis on efficient testing processes.”