Seattle-based software testing company QA Wolf has raised $20 million.
With the funding, announced Wednesday, the startup said it plans to expand its product and grow its team, focusing specifically on bringing its product to the market. QA Wolf's revenue has grown more than fivefold over the past nine months, the company said.
"With engineering talent more scarce and expensive than ever before, development teams usually don't have the time or expertise to write and maintain end-to-end tests in-house," Jon Perl, co-founder and CEO of QA Wolf, said in a release. "We deliver a bespoke solution that doesn't just assist but completes the job for our customers."
QA Wolf — the QA stands for quality assurance — was founded in 2019. The company comes up with plans to test clients' apps and codes those tests. In addition to running tests, QA Wolf investigates problems and even fixes certain issues. The company uses a shared communication channel, like Slack, with clients. The cost depends on the size of the app, according to QA Wolf's website.
Perl was previously the chief technology officer at the pharmacy technology company ZipDrug, his LinkedIn page shows. He also spent time as a software architect at the home renovation website Angi. Laura Cressman, another co-founder of the company, was previously a senior software engineer at the health care technology company Cityblock Health, according to her LinkedIn page. Co-founder Scott Wilson's LinkedIn page shows he was previously the senior director of growth marketing at the electronics company Wyze.
Inspired Capital led the round, while Notation Capital, CoFound and billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, among others, participated. Inspired Capital has invested in the business banking startup Rho and the health care records and payments company Canvas.
"We started QA Wolf to give people time back to do more of what they love," Cressman said in a release. "We're just scratching the surface of how we can take QA off our customers' plates, and we're excited to be building the best QA solution in the world."
