--- source_url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runscope?utm_source=openai" title: Runscope - Wikipedia mirrored_at: 2026-08-10T01:34:30.533Z host: en.wikipedia.org cited_in_42a: true mirror_canonical: "https://index.42a.ai/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runscope__q__utm_source_openai" --- > **Original source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runscope?utm_source=openai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Runscope Type [Private](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_company "Private company") Industry [API testing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_testing "API testing"), [software testing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing "Software testing") Founded 2013 ([San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco "San Francisco"), [California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California "California")) Founder John Sheehan, Frank Stratton Headquarters [San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco "San Francisco") , U.S. Area served Worldwide Key people John Sheehan (CEO), Frank Stratton (CTO) Products Runscope **Runscope** is a SaaS-based company that sells software for [API](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface "Application programming interface") performance testing, monitoring and debugging. Runscope is based in [San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco "San Francisco"), [California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California "California"). Runscope provides cloud-based and hybrid on-premises software that allows businesses to monitor, test, and debug [web-service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service "Web service") APIs. Runscope API tests can be used to test against services available in the public cloud, running on a private network behind a firewall, or running on a local development environment. Runscope integrates with continuous integration and deployment platforms, such as [Jenkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_\(software\) "Jenkins (software)"),[\[1\]](#cite_note-1) Amazon CodePipeline,[\[2\]](#cite_note-2) CircleCI,[\[3\]](#cite_note-3) and TeamCity. Runscope’s API methods for executing tests and checking on test status allow it to be integrated with other [CI/CD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CI/CD "CI/CD") tools and platforms as well.[\[4\]](#cite_note-4) Runscope supports a variety of notification options for sending test completion and failure results. Runscope integrates with team communication platforms [Slack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_\(software\) "Slack (software)"),[\[5\]](#cite_note-5) [HipChat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipChat "HipChat") and Flowdock. Runscope also integrates with [incident management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_management "Incident management") systems AlertOps, PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie and StatusPage.io. Runscope also integrates with third-party [software analytics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_analytics "Software analytics") platforms, including [New Relic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Relic "New Relic") Insights, Keen IO and [Datadog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datadog "Datadog"). Runscope was founded in 2013 by John Sheehan and Frank Stratton.[\[6\]](#cite_note-6) Runscope has raised approximately $7.1 million in venture capital funding. Runscope received its first round of seed funding in May 2013 for the amount of $1.1 million from Andreessen Horowitz, True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Jon Dahl, Nat Friedman, David Cohen, and Ullas Naik. Runscope's Series A round of funding was led by General Catalyst Partners.[\[7\]](#cite_note-7) In September 2017, [CA Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Technologies "CA Technologies") acquired Runscope.[\[8\]](#cite_note-8)[\[9\]](#cite_note-9) CA Technologies also owns [BlazeMeter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlazeMeter "BlazeMeter"),[\[10\]](#cite_note-:0-10) a load-testing platform for software. In July 2019, two platforms were merged into one under **Blazemeter** brand.[\[11\]](#cite_note-11) In September 2021, Broadcom, which acquired CA Technologies in 2018, announced that it would sell BlazeMeter to Perforce.[\[12\]](#cite_note-12) Perforce announced that it had completed the acquisition process on November 1, 2021.[\[13\]](#cite_note-13) In December 2014, Runscope acquired Ghost Inspector, a company that provides cloud-based UI and browser testing for websites and web applications.[\[14\]](#cite_note-14) 1. 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