Postman secures $7mn in Series A Funding from Nexus Venture Partners

Postman, a provider of complete API toolchain for developers, has secured Series A round of funding of $7mn from Nexus Venture Partners.

“Every developer in the world will benefit from using Postman,” said Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners and Postman board member in a press note. “Postman is at the very center of the industry of connected software and poised for huge growth.”

Since the introduction of the first Postman app in 2012, Postman has become the industry standard for Application Programming Interface (API) development, with more than three million active installations and a customer base that includes more than 1.5 million active monthly users at 30,000 companies, according to the company statement.

“We created Postman to address issues that I confronted personally as a developer, and our overwhelming market acceptance shows that this was a critical need,” commented Abhinav Asthana, CEO and co-founder of Postman. “The need for Postman in an API developer’s workflow will only grow as this market expands.”

Postman provides free apps for Chrome, Mac, and Windows, available for download on the Postman website. Postman’s paid product, Postman Cloud, is a subscription service that provides additional collaboration, testing and documentation tools for both small and large development teams.