TechCrunch March 20, 2014
Munich, Germany-based mobile and web app crowdtesting startup, Testbirds, which lets companies outsource their app testing to its sizeable network of testers, has closed a €2.1 million ($2.9 million) Series A round, led by Seventure Partners.
The startup, which was founded in late 2011, has previously raised €1 million from a local business angel, making this round its first VC investment.
Testbirds is preparing to extend its reach with tomorrow’s launch of a free Android app for developers to distribute test apps — called BirdFlight — that’s aiming to take advantage of the impending withdrawal of TestFlight from the Android platform, post-Apple acquisition.
Testbirds has more than 25,000 testers signed up to its current crowd-based testing platform — most, but not all of whom are based in Europe — to kick the tyres of companies’ apps for them to help locate bugs and do things like user interface testing.
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