Postman, Inc.
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Company History
Founded 2014 in San Francisco, California, United States
Postman was founded in 2014 by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, and Abhijit Kane. Asthana was an engineer at a software startup in Bengaluru who experienced daily frustration while testing and sharing HTTP APIs across distributed development teams: every time an API endpoint changed, developers had to manually update spreadsheets, copy-paste terminal curl commands, and decipher broken documentation. Over a single weekend hackathon in 2012, Asthana coded a simple Chrome extension to send HTTP requests and inspect JSON responses, uploading it to the Chrome Web Store as a free developer tool. The extension went viral organically, attracting hundreds of thousands of developers from Silicon Valley to Tokyo. Recognizing that software development was rapidly shifting to an API-first paradigm, Asthana joined forces with former colleagues Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane to formally incorporate Postman in 2014. Relocating executive operations to San Francisco while maintaining engineering in Bengaluru, Postman evolved from an HTTP testing utility into a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise platform used by 30 million developers. In 2012, in a modest apartment in Bengaluru, India, Abhinav Asthana was exhausted. Working as a front-end software consultant, Asthana spent hours every day writing cURL scripts to test API endpoints that were constantly breaking because backend developers changed parameters without updating documentation. Over a single weekend, Asthana wrote a simple visual Chrome app that allowed him to save API requests, click 'Send', and view formatted JSON responses. He shared it on the Chrome Web Store, hoping a few dozen friends might find it useful. Within months, hundreds of thousands of developers around the world were using Postman daily, proving that the most transformative software platforms are born from intense personal developer empathy.
Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Postman, Inc. In 2012, frustrated by the friction of API testing, Asthana built the original Postman Chrome app over a weekend in Bengaluru. Alongside co-founders Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane, Asthana scaled Postman into a global developer phenomenon. Under his visionary, customer-centric leadership, Postman pioneered the executable Postman Collection standard, created the Public API Network, expanded to San Francisco, raised over $430 million in institutional capital, and built Postman into a $5.6 billion enterprise software titan generating over $180 million in annual recurring revenue. Asthana is widely celebrated as one of the most successful tech founders in Indian history. Asthana's visionary leadership established Postman as one of the most admired developer software institutions on Earth. An engineer at heart, Asthana continues to spend time reviewing API architectures and engaging directly with software developers on GitHub and social media. His calm, customer-obsessed stewardship guided Postman from a weekend side project into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise platform, inspiring a generation of technology entrepreneurs across India and the world.
Ankit Sobti is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Postman. A brilliant software systems architect, Sobti worked closely with Asthana from day one to turn a simple browser plugin into a robust enterprise cloud platform. At Postman, Sobti engineered the distributed synchronization protocols, directed the emergency desktop migration from Chrome Apps to Electron, and oversees global technical infrastructure, enterprise security governance, and cloud scalability across millions of concurrent workspaces. At Postman, Sobti engineered the core cloud infrastructure that synchronizes millions of API collections across distributed global teams with sub-second latency. His technical leadership was vital during the high-stakes migration from Chrome Apps to native Electron desktop clients, ensuring that 35 million developers experienced seamless, high-availability API development without data disruption.
Abhijit Kane is a co-founder of Postman. In the company's early days, Kane spearheaded the development of core automation tooling, including the command-line collection runner Newman. At Postman, Kane directed developer ecosystem growth, designed key visual testing workflows, and helped establish Postman's initial product-led growth motion before transitioning to board-level advisory and independent technology investments. At Postman, Kane authored Newman—the open-source command-line tool that allowed software developers to run Postman Collections inside automated CI/CD pipelines, embedding Postman directly into the DevOps toolchain of Fortune 500 enterprises. His contributions to developer tooling and automated testing played a central role in establishing Postman as an indispensable engineering standard.
Abhinav Asthana created the original Postman Chrome extension as a weekend project to test APIs.
Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, and Abhijit Kane incorporated Postman, establishing headquarters in San Francisco.
Raised Series B funding to expand enterprise collaboration and launched the Public API Network.
Secured $150 million led by Insight Partners, achieving unicorn status with 10M+ developers.
Closed major funding round led by Insight Partners and Coatue Management at a $5.6B valuation.
Surpassed $150M ARR serving 30 million developers across 98% of the Fortune 500.
Acquired the automated API observability startup founded by Harvard/MIT computer scientist Jean Yang.
Since its establishment in 2014, Postman, Inc. expanded from an early-stage venture into a recognized leader in API Development Platform, Developer Tools & Cloud Software Lifecycle Infrastructure, overcoming key market challenges.
Over its history, Postman, Inc. executed decisive strategic pivots toward scalable monetization and digital distribution, securing its current market leadership.
By continually modernizing operations and embracing workflow automation, Postman, Inc. maintains resilience through changing technological and economic cycles.