The Testbirds, a crowdtesting provider founded in 2011, are already considered Success story. Now the VC companies are investing EXTOREL by Falk Strascheg, b-to-v Partners and Seventure Partners invested a total of two million euros in the Munich-based startup. Seventure had already invested 2.1 million euros in Testbirds two years ago and remains the main investor.
Testbirds plans to use the newly raised funds to expand existing services, expand globally, and tap into new target markets. The IT service provider also plans to expand its current workforce of more than 60 people and establish additional country teams. Philipp Benkler, co-founder and managing director, says:
"We are very proud that we were able to convince two of Germany's most renowned VC firms, EXTOREL and b-to-v, of our business model. Together with our main investor, Seventure Partners, we are excellently positionedto our Continue growth and to position Testbirds as a leading provider of innovative software testing.”
Falk Strascheg (recently in an interview with Munich Startup) sees great potential in his company’s investment:
“In the course of advancing digitalization, the Demand for technologies and solutions for software optimization has continuously increasedThe market has enormous growth potential and Testbirds is well prepared for the future with its portfolio and focus on innovation.”
According to the company, over 100,000 testers worldwide are registered with Testbirds to test software applications such as websites and apps on their own devices. The focus is on testing usability and functionality for all software types and device combinations. In addition to crowdtesting, the young company offers cloud-based services for testing software applications.
