Who Founded Postman?

Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman. He started Postman as a side project to make API testing less painful, released it free on the Chrome Web Store, and after it reached about 500,000 users recruited Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane to found the company in 2014. As CEO he led the move of headquarters to San Francisco in 2017, raised about $433 million including the 2021 Series D at a $5.6 billion valuation, and has led the company's 2025-2026 push into SDKs, documentation and AI agent infrastructure through the liblab and Fern acquisitions and the Fabric Gateway launch. Abhinav Asthana was born in 1987.

Ankit Sobti is a co-founder of Postman and its Chief Technology Officer. He joined Asthana in 2014 to turn the Chrome app into a company and has overseen the engineering that took Postman from a browser extension to desktop and web clients and a cloud platform used by more than 500,000 companies. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Abhijit Kane is a co-founder of Postman. He was one of the two former colleagues Asthana recruited in 2014 when the Chrome app's growth made it clear Postman could be a company, and he remains part of the founding leadership team. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).