TechCrunch April 10, 2014
Runscope, a service that helps developers test and debug APIs, today announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures and True Ventures. As part of this investment, General Catalyst Managing Director Steve Herrod will join the company’s board of directors.
True Ventures led Runscope’s $1.1 million seed round in early 2013. Lerer Ventures also participated in that round. Since raising this seed round, it launched Radar, its flagship product for testing backend services. The company plans to use its new funding round to grow its team and expand its product line into the enterprise. As Runscope’s CEO and co-founder John Sheehan tells me, the company also plans to expand its marketing efforts to reach more developers and will likely hire a head of marketing soon, too.