Seattle-based app-testing company QA Wolf has raised a $36 million Series B round.
With the new funding, announced Tuesday, QA Wolf plans to expand the reach of its product, which uses artificial intelligence to test web and mobile apps for bugs. The latest round builds off a $20 million round the 5-year-old startup raised in 2022.
“With this new round of funding, we’ll make improvements to our existing infrastructure and be the only solution offering 100% parallelized regression tests for Android and iOS," QA Wolf co-founder and CEO Jon Perl said in a news release.
QA Wolf has eight open roles listed online, including roles in engineering, sales and marketing.
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QA Wolf says it tests functions like third-party integrations, extensions, and audio and video accuracy. QA Wolf updates its tests when clients update their products, and the company sets up shared Slack or Teams channels with clients to report bugs. Its clients include AutoTrader and Salesloft.
Scale Venture Partners led the round, while Threshold Ventures, Ventureforgood, Inspired Capital and Notation Capital participated. Scale Venture Partners has invested in DocuSign, RingCentral and Root Insurance.
Perl was previously the chief technology officer at the pharmacy technology company ZipDrug, according to his LinkedIn page, and he 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, and Scott Wilson, a third co-founder, was previously the senior director of growth marketing at the electronics company Wyze, their LinkedIn pages note.
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