About Postman
Postman was founded in 2014 by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, and Abhijit Kane, growing out of an internal tool Asthana had originally built to make his own work testing APIs easier, based on the observation that developers building and testing application programming interfaces (APIs), the interfaces that let different software systems communicate with and request data or actions from each other, needed better tools for constructing test API requests, viewing and debugging API responses, and documenting how a given API works for other developers who need to integrate with it, tasks that many developers were previously handling using more limited command-line tools or writing custom test scripts for each individual API they worked with.
Postman's platform provides a widely adopted graphical interface for constructing and sending API requests, organizing collections of related API requests for a given project or API, and automatically generating documentation describing how to use a given API based on the actual requests and responses developers have tested, functionality that has made Postman a widely adopted tool among software developers and API teams globally, used in many software development organizations' workflows for building, testing, and documenting APIs. The company has expanded from its original individual developer tool into a broader collaborative API platform, including features that let entire development teams collaborate on shared API collections and documentation, API monitoring tools that continuously check whether APIs are functioning correctly in production, and a public API network where companies can publish documentation and testing collections for their public APIs, helping external developers more easily discover and integrate with those APIs. Postman's customers span individual developers and large enterprise engineering organizations across virtually every industry that builds or consumes APIs as part of their software development practice. The company has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Insight Partners, CRV, and Nexus Venture Partners, reaching a valuation exceeding $5.6 billion.
