Darling of developers, how Postman made a $2 billion valuation look like an overnight success

The startup’s collaborative platform for software developers is currently used by 11 million software developers across 500,000 companies. (In pic- Postman co-founders Abhijit Kane, Abhinav Asthana and Ankit Sobti (L-R))

Synopsis

On June 11, Postman announced it had raised $150 mn in venture capital at an enterprise valuation of $2 bn.

"10 million developers on the Postman platform now,” Abhinav Asthana tweeted on February 7. The company’s 32-year-old CEO was retweeted by Postman’s official handle. Both have modest followings on Twitter and, therefore, the milestone didn’t make much of a splash. That changed on June 11. That’s when Postman announced it had raised $150 million in venture capital at an enterprise valuation of $2 billion. The wider world sat up and took note. As
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