What it sells
Open-source API & UI test automation
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedEngineering/QA leaders at enterprises (banking, insurance, Guidewire shops); logos include J.P. Morgan, Visa, Capital One, Boeing, SAP.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Manual regression cycles, governing AI-generated code and APIs, need for self-hosted/air-gapped testing and Kafka/gRPC/WebSocket coverage.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Write API, UI and performance tests in the Karate DSL, run in CI/CD, then enterprise add-ons for coverage, contract and mutation testing, test data generation and OpenAPI governance.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Open-core: MIT-licensed free framework; revenue from per-user IDE/tool licenses and custom annual Enterprise licenses; 100% self-hosted, no usage metering.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Open-source adoption (8.8k GitHub stars) funnelling to self-serve Pro licenses and sales-led Enterprise (demo, enterprise evaluation).
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2022 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.