Sofy, a Seattle start-up that provides developers and quality assessment professionals with a codeless platform to test their mobile applications, has raised $7.75 million in new funding.
Sayed Hamid, CEO and co-founder, told geekwire in an email that the cash would be used to expand the platform’s network and API functions in addition to the current ability to test mobile applications. He added that the company would also upgrade its sales and marketing team and double the number of employees by the end of the year.
This 35 person startup was jointly founded by Hamid and Hyder Ali in 2016. Most of their careers have been in engineering leadership roles at Microsoft. Usman Zubair, another former Microsoft engineer, joined them and founded many software companies.
Sofy currently has 45 customers, including Microsoft and alight, with a total user base of 15000. The size of the startup quadrupled last year and is expected to achieve the same growth by the end of this year.
Sofy’s patented technology can run diagnostics on IOS and Android applications. Hamid said that developers and quality assurance professionals can test the performance of their applications, create automation, view performance results, and diagnose visual quality and network problems. They don’t need to write a single line of code to do all this.
“No code test automation is changing the $4 billion mobile application testing market and bringing huge benefits to the software development and deployment process,” James Newell, a partner of Voyager capital who is joining the Sophie board, said in a statement.
Sofy will need to compete with more and more start-ups, all of which are pursuing this specific market, including well funded companies such as browerstack and Claude, and new companies including autify and Waldo.
“Although our competitors focus on the creation of test automation, Sophie takes a comprehensive view of the quality assurance process,” Hamid said. He added that the startup has provided more than 10 different mobile application quality assurance tools, which can improve the company’s testing efficiency.
So far, Sophie has raised $9.6 million. This round of financing was led by traveller capital, and PSL ventures, gtmfund, revolution and other institutions provided additional investment. Julie Sandler, managing director of PSL ventures, will be an observer on the board of directors of the startup as part of this round of financing.