Postman

Postman was founded in 2014 by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, and Abhijit Kane. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Postman is a private company; it raised a Series D round of $225 million in 2021 at a reported valuation of $5.6 billion. The core product is a SaaS API development and testing platform used by software developers and engineering teams to build, test, document, and monitor APIs.

Postman's primary product is its API platform, which lets developers design, mock, test, and document APIs within a single collaborative workspace. The platform targets software engineering teams across virtually every industry — from startups to large enterprises — and is used primarily by backend developers, DevOps engineers, and QA engineers. Postman operates on a freemium model with paid tiers (Basic, Professional, and Enterprise) priced per seat, making it accessible to individual developers while scaling to large teams. The product is sold both self-serve and through enterprise sales motions.

The flagship product is the Postman API Platform, which encompasses collections (groups of API requests), environments, automated testing via the Newman CLI runner, and a public API network where teams can share and discover APIs. Postman Flows, launched as a no-code API workflow builder, was introduced as a distinct feature within the platform. The company also operates the Postman Public API Network, one of the largest repositories of public APIs available to developers.

Postman's direct competitors in the API development tooling space include Insomnia (owned by Kong), Paw (rebranded as RapidAPI for Mac), and SwaggerHub (owned by SmartBear). Postman is widely regarded as the dominant tool for API testing and collaboration by developer count, having reported over 30 million registered users as of 2023. The broader API economy — driven by microservices architecture and cloud-native development — represents a structural tailwind for the company. Postman introduced AI-assisted API features in 2023 and 2024, positioning itself within the generative AI developer tooling wave.

Postman does not have a known Israeli office or R&D center. The founders are Indian, and the company's engineering operations are primarily based in San Francisco and Bangalore. No Israeli investors or strategic partnerships with Israeli entities are known from public reporting.