BrowserStack is an Indian cloud web and mobile testing platform that provides developers with the ability to test their websites and mobile applications across on-demand

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s and real mobile devices.

History

The subscription-based service was founded by Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal in 2011 in

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, and was originally started as a service to let developers test their websites on

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. BrowserStack has over 25,000 paid customers and 2 million registered developers in more than 135 countries. In October 2015, BrowserStack was recognised as a Bootstrap Champ in ''

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'' Startup Awards. BrowserStack has offices in San Francisco, Mumbai and Dublin. Privately held, the company raised $50 million

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from Accel in 2018. In July 2020, BrowserStack announced that they had acquired Percy, a

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-based visual testing software provider. In June 2021, BrowserStack raised $200 million in a series B led by

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and

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at a valuation of $4 billion. In December 2021, BrowserStack announced acquisition of

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, end-to-end testing automation framework, Nightwatch.js.

Components

BrowserStack have five primary products: Live, App Live, Automate, App Automate and Percy.

References

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