Cloud-based application testing company Sauce Labs closed on a $5 million round of venture funding, and announced an expansion of its platform aimed at providing monitoring, reporting and collaboration for large enterprise users.
Sauce Labs says its managed cloud platform for mobile and web app testing is already used by brands including Dropbox, Eventbrite, Mozilla, Yammer, Yelp and Salesforce; Salesforce also participated in one of its previous funding rounds.
The Series C funding round of $5 million was led by Toba Capital and will be used to “support Sauce Labs’ global expansion and grow the company’s support, service and go-to-market strategies, particularly around its mobile and enterprise offering,” the company said.
Sauce said it has run more than 50 million automated tests since 2009, with 6 million tests executed in June by 10,000 users and a growth rate of 10% of each month.
“The market opportunity for automated application testing is large, and the programmatic model is required to support mobile and Web applications,” said Tyler Jewell, who led the Toba Capital investment and is joining Sauce Labs’ board of directors. “We’re seeing this shift accelerate across the industry with Sauce Labs in the sweet spot of this market, adding big customer names with a highly scalable and durable testing as a service.”
In conjunction with the funding announcement, Sauce LAbs also unveiled Sauce Team, which the company describes as able to “expand the ability of the manager of a testing or development team to manage a large number of users and tests from a single location.” Features include new management dashboards, better contiguous integration compatibility to help speed up app debugging, and support for cross-team collaboration through sharing video, screenshots and test logs via messaging.
