Postman, Inc.
- Added additional sources to demonstrate Postman's notability in API development. Most sources are from large companies that document how to access their API using Postman. I also added a guide from a university and one from a book about API development. Ahoyaway (talk) 05:49, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 2014 in Bangalore, India |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | San Francisco, California, United States |
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Number of employees | 425 (2021) |
| 🌐 Website | postman |
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Postman is an enterprise API platform headquartered in San Francisco, California.[1] It provides development tools for testing and building APIs.[2]
Business[edit]
Postman products are used by engineers to develop APIs, which are used by applications to communicate with other applications. As of 2021 Postman reported it was used in over 500,000 organizations.[3] Major companies such as Microsoft[4], Twitter[5], PayPal[6], Cisco[7], and Square[8] use Postman to provide public access to their API systems.
Desktop app[edit]
The desktop application allows users to create, send, and save API requests through a graphical user interface[9]. Users can make API requests using various authentication protocols and certificates. The app supports REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs.[10] It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.[11]
Monitoring[edit]
Postman offers an automated API monitoring service that periodically checks API response times and performance.[12][13]
Enterprise platform[edit]
Postman provides enterprise services for organizations to manage team members and API deployment.[14] A report by Enterprise Strategy Group commissioned by Postman claimed that the service resulted in faster and more effective API development and bug fixing.[15]
Chrome app[edit]
The Chrome app was Postman's first product. Postman stopped supporting the app in November 2017 after Chromium deprecated support for apps on its platform. [11]
History[edit]
Postman first began in 2012 as a Chrome app available from the Google Chrome web store. It was created by Abhinav Asthana, a former Yahoo intern who found it difficult to develop and test APIs.[16]
In October 2014 Asthana, Ankit Sobti and Abhijit Kane co-founded Postman in Bangalore, India.[17]
In May 2015 Postman raised a $1 million seed round.[18]
In February 2016 Postman reported having 2.5 million users.[17] In October 2016 it raised a $7 million Series A round.[19]
In 2017 the company moved its headquarters to San Francisco, while the core technology team remained in Bangalore.[20]
In June 2019 the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by CRV.[21][22]
In June 2020 the company raised a $150 million Series C round at a $2 billion valuation.[23] The company was not yet profitable.[1] In July 2020 the company joined the OpenAPI Initiative, an open-source collaboration project about the OpenAPI specification standards.[24][25]
In August 2021 the company raised a $225 million Series D round at a $5.6 billion valuation.[3] It reported having 425 employees. The company held a Postman Student Summit, an event for students to learn about APIs.[26]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "This San Francisco startup plans to nearly double its workforce after raising $150 million". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-07-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Du, Hu; Jones, Phillip; Segarra, Eva Lucas; Bandera, Carlos Fernández (2018-09-10). "Development of a REST API for obtaining site-specific historical and near-future weather data in EPW format". Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "API platform Postman valued at $5.6 billion in $225 million fundraise". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ jasonjoh. "Use Postman with the Microsoft Graph API - Microsoft Graph". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Getting started with Postman". developer.twitter.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Get an access token". developer.paypal.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "New DevNet Postman Collection Makes Using APIs Easier". Cisco Blogs. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Test Square APIs with Postman". developer.squareup.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Guides - Using Postman". portal.apis.huit.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "API Client for REST, SOAP, & GraphQL Queries". Postman. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tetrud, Julia (2018-11-28). "Upgrade from Postman Chrome to Postman Native Apps". Postman Blog. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ "API Monitoring: Monitor API Performance with Postman". Postman. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ "Chapter 9: Monitoring APIs with Postman - API Testing and Development with Postman [Book]". www.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Postman API Platform | Postman Enterprise". Postman. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Report - Economic Benefits of the Postman API Platform". Postman. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ Asthana, Abhinav (2021-04-05). "How We Built Postman—the Product and the Company". Postman Blog. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "30 Under 30: Ankit Sobti, Abhinav Asthana, Abhijit Kane - Cracking The Code". Forbes India. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ "Postman, An API Development Platform Used By Box And Others, Raises $1M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ↑ "Postman raises $7 million in series A from Nexus Venture Partners | M&A Critique". 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ "Postman announces new key executive appointments, moves HQ from India to the U.S." The Tech Portal. 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
- ↑ "Postman raises $50 million to grow its API development platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ↑ "CRV". crv.com. Retrieved 2021-07-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ↑ kinlane (2020-07-23). "Postman Joins the OAI to Support the OpenAPI Specification". OpenAPI Initiative. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "OpenAPI: Postman Joins the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI)". Postman Blog. 2020-07-23. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ "Announcing the First-Ever Postman Student Summit". Postman Blog. 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
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