INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Mabl, a Boston-based startup from the folks who brought you Stackdriver, wants to change software testing using machine learning, and today
it announced a $20 million Series B investment led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).Existing investors CRV and Amplify Partners also
As part of the deal, Karim Faris, general partner at GV will be joining the Mabl board
Today investment comes on top of a $10 million Series A announced in February.While it was at it, the company also announced a brand new
In fact, part of the reason for going for a hefty Series B so soon after landing the Series A was because it takes some money to service
enterprise clients, company founder Izzy Azeri explained.Azeri says that when he and his partner Dan Belcher decided to start a new company
after sellingStackdriver to Google in 2014, they wanted to be methodical about it
They did some research to find gaps and pain points the new company could address
What they found was that QA wasn''t keeping up with modern development speed.They saw development and testing teams spending too much time
simply maintaining the testing regimen, and they believed with machine learning they could help automate the QA process and deliver it in
the form of a cloud service, allowing testing to keep up.Instead of looking at the code level, Mabl looks at your website or service and
alerts you to errors like increased load time, broken links or other problems, and displays the results in a dashboard
When it finds an issue, it flags the step in the process where the problem occurred and sends a screenshot to the test or development team
where they can analyze it and fix it if needed.Mabl dashboard
Screenshot: MablThey launched in Beta last February and went GA in May
Since then, they were pleasantly surprised to find that larger companies were interested in their service and they knew they needed to beef
up the base product to appeal to these customers.That meant adding secure tunneling, which they call Mabl Link, a higher level of
encryption, support for cross-browser testing and integration with enterprise single sign-on
They also needed a higher level of support and training, which are also part of the enterprise package.They let each customer try the full
suite of features when they sign up for 21 days, after which they can drop down to Pro or sign up for the enterprise version, depending on
their budgets and requirements.Mabl currently has 30 employees in Boston, and as they develop the enterprise business, the plan is bring
that up to 70 in the next year as they add enterprise sales people, customer success staff and of course more engineering to keep building
