Company:SmartBear Software

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Short description: American information technology company
SmartBear Software, Inc.
TypeComputer software
IndustryTechnology
Founded2009; 15 years ago (2009)
FounderJason Cohen
Headquarters
Somerville, Massachusetts
,
U.S.
Key people
Frank Roe (CEO)[1]
Number of employees
650+
Websitesmartbear.com

SmartBear Software is an American privately-held information technology company that delivers tools for application performance monitoring (APM), software development, software testing, API testing and API management. The company is based in Assembly Square in Somerville in the Greater Boston Area. The company was founded in 2009 when SmartBear, AutomatedQA and Pragmatic Software were acquired by Insight Venture Partners.

History and founding

The original Smart Bear company was founded by Jason Cohen in 2003.[2] Insight Venture Partners acquired three companies, Smart Bear, AutomatedQA and Pragmatic Software, between 2007 and early 2009. These companies operated as AQA Holdings until being rebranded as SmartBear Software in 2010.[3]

After the rebranding, the company acquired Eviware in 2011, leading to API promoter and SoapUI's founder, Ole Lensmar, joining the company. He later served as chief technology officer (CTO) of SmartBear.[4] That same year, the company acquired APM vendor AlertSite.[5]

In 2013 SmartBear acquired Spanish APM vendor Lucierna.[6] SmartBear then acquired the Open-Source Community Swagger in 2015 and its founder, Tony Tam, joined the company as head of products for Swagger and the commercial version of Swagger, SwaggerHub.[7] In 2016, SmartBear acquired CrossBrowserTesting.com (CBT) and Ken Hamric, founder of CBT, joined the company as general manager of CrossBrowserTesting.com.[8]

In 2017, Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in SmartBear Software.[9][10][11][12]

AutomatedQA

AutomatedQA Corporation specialized in automated software testing tools and developer tools. It was founded in 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company's first product was AQtime, a binary instrumentation profiler to help optimize performance for applications developed with Microsoft and Borland compilers. It was released on November 12, 1999. The first version of TestComplete, AutomatedQA's automated software testing tool, was released in December 2000. In 2004, AutomatedQA released Automated Build Studio, an automated build management and continuous integration application. AQtrace, a new product by AutomatedQA, was released in June 2008.[13][14] AutomatedQA had received an SD Times 100 award three times, including the most recent SD Times 100 list for 2008. The SD Times 100 award honors the top 100 leaders and innovators in the software development industry as judged by SD Times magazine.[15]

AutomatedQA remained an independent subsidiary of SmartBear from 2007 to 2010 until being merged into SmartBear Software.[3]

Company

SmartBear is based in the Greater Boston Area and has U.S. offices in Tennessee , and Florida.[16] SmartBear also has offices and development centers in Ireland, India, Finland, Poland, Melbourne, and Sweden.[17][18][19][20][21] Frank Roe became chief executive in March 2020.[22]

SmartBear Software offers products in the following categories: API lifecycle, automated testing, behaviour-driven development (BDD), test management, performance testing, mobile testing, monitoring, code review, and three open-source tools.[23][24]

References

  1. ↑ "SmartBear Announces CEO Transition". https://smartbear.com/news/news-releases/smartbear-announces-ceo-transition/. 
  2. ↑ Jason Cohen (December 30, 2009). "How A Smart Bear Built A Company So He Could Sell It". https://mixergy.com/interviews/jason-cohen-smart-bear/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Galen Moore. "Triple merger creates SmartBear Software in Beverly". http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2010/07/triple-merger-creates-smartbear-software.html. 
  4. ↑ "SmartBear Software Acquires Eviware". http://www.stockholminnovation.com/blog/2011/07/07/smartbear-software-acquires-eviware/. 
  5. ↑ Zaroban, Stefany. "SmartBear Software buys AlertSite, a web and mobile monitoring firm". https://www.internetretailer.com/2011/04/05/smartbear-software-buys-alertsite-web-monitoring-firm. 
  6. ↑ "Los líderes mundiales en tecnología se fijan en las 'start-up' catalanas". October 19, 2014. http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/economia/los-lideres-mundiales-tecnologia-fijan-las-start-up-catalanas-3615624. 
  7. ↑ "SmartBear Moves APIs Beyond Code With SwaggerHub". eWeek.com. http://www.eweek.com/developer/smartbear-moves-apis-beyond-code-with-swaggerhub.html. 
  8. ↑ Arnold, Ed. "Memphis tech firm sold to Boston company". http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2016/05/10/memphis-tech-firm-sold-to-boston-company.html. 
  9. ↑ Cooper, Laura. "SmartBear Receives Investment From Francisco Partners". https://www.wsj.com/articles/smartbear-receives-investment-from-francisco-partners-1493809200. 
  10. ↑ Diakantonis, Demitri (May 3, 2017). "Francisco Partners backs SmartBear, a maker of tools for software developers". SourceMedia. https://www.themiddlemarket.com/news/francisco-partners-backs-software-maker-smartbear-to-accelerate-the-targets-growth. 
  11. ↑ Engel, Jeff. "Source: SmartBear Software Sold to Francisco Partners for $410M". http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2017/05/03/source-smartbear-software-sold-to-francisco-partners-for-410m/#. 
  12. ↑ O'Brien, Kelly. "Somerville software company sold for up to $500M". American City Business Journals. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/05/03/somerville-software-company-sold-for-up-to-500m.html. 
  13. ↑ "Borland Announces Technology Partner of the Year Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20090221195111/http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2005/11_14_05_borland_announces_technology_partners_of_the_year.html. 
  14. ↑ "Microsoft Gold Certified Partner". http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/applicationplatform/launch2005/partners/automatedqa.mspx. 
  15. ↑ "SD Times 100: 2008". SD Times. 2008-06-02. http://www.sdtimes.com/link/32287. 
  16. ↑ "Assembly Row signs up first tech tenant, SmartBear Software". Boston Globe. BetaBoston.com. http://www.betaboston.com/news/2014/11/04/assembly-row-signs-up-first-tech-tenant-smartbear-software/. 
  17. ↑ Kennedy, John (March 14, 2017). "SmartBear to create 25 jobs at new software centre in Galway this year". Silicon Republic. https://www.siliconrepublic.com/jobs/smartbear-galway-jobs. 
  18. ↑ O'Dowd, Barry. "IRELAND IS NOW THE NUMBER ONE LOCATION OF CHOICE BY MARKET SHARE FOR SCALING BUSINESSES BETWEEN 10-200 EMPLOYEES". 2017 Irish Tech News. http://irishtechnews.ie/ireland-is-now-the-number-one-location-of-choice-by-market-share-for-scaling-businesses-between-10-200-employees/. 
  19. ↑ "Three firms to create jobs in Galway and Dublin". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. June 12, 2014. https://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0612/623236-smartbear-galway-jobs/. 
  20. ↑ "Software firm to create 100 new jobs in city". Connacht Tribune Group. http://connachttribune.ie/software-firm-create-100-new-jobs-city/. 
  21. ↑ Hof, Robert. "Startup Mecca Rises From Abandoned Guinness Storehouse". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/12/31/startup-mecca-rises-from-abandoned-guinness-storehouse/. 
  22. ↑ "SmartBear Announces CEO Transition". Press release. SmartBear Software. March 2, 2020. https://smartbear.com/news/news-releases/smartbear-announces-ceo-transition/. 
  23. ↑ "SoapUI". GitHub.com. https://github.com/SmartBear/soapui. 
  24. ↑ "Swagger API". http://swagger.io/. 

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