INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ProdPerfect, a Boston-based startup focused on automating QA testing for web apps, has announced the close of a $2.6 million Seed round
co-led by Eniac Ventures and Fika Ventures, with participation from Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.ProdPerfect started when
co-founder and CEO Dan Widing was VP of engineering at WeSpire, where he saw firsthand the pain points associated with web application QA
Whereas there were all kinds of product analytics tools for product engineers, the same data wasn’t there for the engineers building QA
tests that are meant to replicate user behavior.He imagined a platform that would use live data around real user behavior to formulate these
That’s how ProdPerfect was born
The platform sees user behavior, builds and delivers test scripts to the engineering team.The service continues to build on what it knows
about a product, and can then simulate new tests when new features are added based on aggregated flows of common user behavior
This data doesn’t track any information about the user, but rather anonymizes them and watches how they move through the web app
The hope is that ProdPerfect gives engineers the opportunity to keep building the product instead of spreading their resources across
building a QA testing suite.The new funding will go toward expanding the sales team and further building out the product
For now, ProdPerfect simply offers functional testing, which uses a single virtual user to test whether a product breaks or not
But president and co-founder Erik Fogg sees an opportunity to build more integrated testing, including performance, security and
localization testing.Fogg says the company is growing 40 percent month over month in booked revenue.The company says it can deploy within
two weeks of installing a data tracker, and provide more than 70 percent coverage of all user interactions with 95 percent+ test
stability.“The greatest challenge is going to be finding people who share our company’s core values and are of high enough talent,
ambition and autonomy in part because our hiring road map is so steep,” said Fogg
“Growing pains catch up with businesses as a team expands quickly and we have to make sure that we’re picky and that we reinforce the
