Founder Profile
Abhinav Asthana
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Abhinav Asthana?
Abhinav Asthana is a founder of Postman, Inc., which was founded in 2014 with Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane.
- Company founded
- Postman, Inc.
- Founded
- 2014
- Co-founders
- Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane
Background
Engineer from BITS Pilani who was working at Yahoo in Bengaluru when he built the original Postman Chrome app in 2012.
Founding Story
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.
Sources
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- About Postman (Postman, Inc.)
- Postman acquires Fern (Postman Blog, January 8, 2026) (Postman, Inc.)