Runscope provides tools for developers to test and debug APIs, including its flagship product Radar for testing backend services. The company reports that tens of thousands of developers have used its tools and that its service has captured more than 50,000,000 requests to over 10,000 unique APIs. Runscope is expanding into the enterprise with a new Runscope Enterprise offering that can be run behind corporate firewalls or in hybrid deployments and is tailored for high-volume internal API consumption. Runscope Enterprise is launching in a limited private preview and the company plans to add features such as single sign-on and data-retention policies before wider availability. Financially, the company has completed a $6 million Series A and previously raised a $1.1 million seed round. Runscope intends to use the funding to grow its team, expand its product line into the enterprise, and increase marketing—likely hiring a head of marketing soon. Runscope provides tools that watch API traffic to give visibility into the conversations an app has with external services and surface problems in distributed systems. The product is designed initially for test and development use, with plans to offer the tools for production use in the coming months. Runscope’s runtime generates data about API traffic that the company plans to monetize for business intelligence, resilience, and mission-critical monitoring. The system is built on Amazon Web Services EC2 and programmed in Python. The founding team includes CEO John Sheehan (formerly at IFTTT and a Twilio developer evangelist), CTO Frank Statton (formerly lead engineer at Twilio), and Ryan Park (from Pinterest). Runscope positions itself alongside performance and API management players such as New Relic, Apigee, and Layer7.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Apr 2014