Runscope
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software as a service (SaaS) |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founder | John Sheehan, Frank Stratton |
| Headquarters | San Francisco , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | API performance evaluation, monitoring, and troubleshooting tools; cloud-hosted and hybrid on-premises API testing solutions |
| Parent | CA Technologies (2017–2018) |
| Website | www |
Runscope is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider focused on tools for API performance evaluation, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Established in 2013 by John Sheehan and Frank Stratton, the company is based in San Francisco, California, and caters to clients worldwide.
General
Runscope delivers both cloud-hosted and hybrid on-premises solutions designed to help organizations test, observe, and debug web-service APIs. Its platform accommodates API testing across various environments, including public cloud infrastructures, private networks secured by firewalls, and local development setups.
Integrations
The platform integrates with leading continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems such as Jenkins, Amazon CodePipeline, CircleCI, and TeamCity. Runscope's API facilitates smooth connectivity with other CI/CD tools for running tests and tracking their outcomes.
For alerting on test statuses, Runscope links with team collaboration services like Slack, HipChat, and Flowdock. It also supports integration with incident response platforms including AlertOps, PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie, and StatusPage.io.
Moreover, Runscope enables analytics integrations with services such as New Relic Insights, Keen IO, and Datadog to deliver deeper insights into application performance.
History
John Sheehan and Frank Stratton founded Runscope in 2013.
The company secured around $7.1 million in venture funding, beginning with a $1.1 million seed investment in May 2013 from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and True Ventures. Its Series A round raised $6 million led by General Catalyst Partners.
In September 2017, Runscope became part of CA Technologies. CA Technologies also owns BlazeMeter, a load-testing software platform; by July 2019, Runscope was merged with BlazeMeter under the BlazeMeter name.
After Broadcom acquired CA Technologies in 2018, it announced the divestiture of BlazeMeter to Perforce in September 2021. The transaction was finalized on November 1, 2021.
Acquisitions
In December 2014, Runscope expanded its offerings by acquiring Ghost Inspector, a cloud-based service specializing in UI and browser testing for websites and web applications.