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Sauce Labs, the Selenium Company, Announces $3.1 Million Series A Financing Led by Contrarian Group
Sauce Labs Makes Selenium Cross-Browser Functional Testing Easy
| Source: Sauce Labs
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - January 20, 2010) - Sauce Labs, the Selenium Company, today
announced that it has closed a $3.1 million round of Series A financing led
by the Contrarian Group, Peter Ueberroth's investment management firm.
Founded in July 2008, Sauce Labs makes open source Selenium-based
cross-browser software testing easy for businesses developing and testing
web applications. Sauce Labs offers a cloud testing service called Sauce
OnDemand, commercial support for Selenium, as well as commercial-grade
versions with premium features. Selenium's creator, Jason Huggins, is a
co-founder of Sauce Labs.
"Selenium has more than 2.6 million downloads and is in use at companies
like Google, Yahoo, eBay, and Salesforce," said Huggins. "Many Selenium
users building web applications are looking for support, enhanced
capabilities, and ready-built, highly available infrastructure for their
functional testing needs. Our mission is to meet these needs for the
Selenium community and also for those not yet familiar with automated
testing."
Web application developers have to keep up with frequent new browser
releases from Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. As
more applications are being built for the web, cross-browser functional
testing is crucial to application performance. Selenium is the leading open
source solution that addresses this pain.
"Selenium has proven to be a powerful and cost effective testing platform,"
said John Dunham, CEO of Sauce Labs. "We're fortunate to have the support
of the Contrarian Group as our investment partner and plan to use the funds
to make Selenium easier to use by a wider audience."
In addition to the funding announcement, Sauce Labs also announced today
the release of Sauce IDE, an enhanced and certified version of the Selenium
IDE open source record and playback system that allows individuals not
comfortable with writing code the ability to do automated cross-browser
functional testing. Sauce IDE tests can be run via Sauce Labs' Sauce
OnDemand cloud service, providing parallel-capable speed, ease of set up,
and video recordings of tests.
"Sauce Labs has the right sauce -- an extraordinarily strong management
team, world class developers, and a deep connection with the open source
Selenium community," said Dick Whilden, a Contrarian Group partner and
Chairman of Sauce Labs. "Sauce Labs is uniquely positioned to make
cross-browser functional application testing easier for developers and
businesses working with web applications."
About Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs, the Selenium company, makes the open source Selenium
cross-browser functional testing platform easy to use by providing support,
a cloud service for Selenium testing and commercial-grade versions of the
open source software with premium features. The lead investor of Sauce Labs
is the Contrarian Group, Peter Ueberroth's investment management firm.
Sauce Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Visit
saucelabs.com.