Rainforest QA is a company.
Rainforest QA has raised $41.2M across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at Rainforest QA.
Rainforest QA has raised $41.2M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at Rainforest QA.
Rainforest QA has raised $41.2M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Rainforest QA's investors include Audrey Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bonfire Ventures, Chemistry VC, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Foundry Group, NextGen Venture Partners, Techstars, Uncork Capital, Clark Landry.
Rainforest QA is a modern quality assurance platform that helps software teams—particularly growing SaaS companies—ship high-quality software faster and with greater confidence. The company’s mission is to make it painless for every software team to measure and improve product quality, enabling development teams to deliver bug-free software at the speed of continuous delivery.
Rainforest QA’s platform combines AI-powered test automation with human QA expertise to reduce the time and effort traditionally required for end-to-end testing and test maintenance. It serves product, engineering, and QA teams that are tired of brittle, code-heavy test suites and want a no-code, visual-first approach that anyone on the team can own. With thousands of startups having run tens of millions of tests on the platform, Rainforest has established strong momentum as a trusted QA partner for fast-moving software organizations.
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Rainforest QA was founded in 2012 by Fred Stevens-Smith (CEO), Lauren Harold (COO), and a small team with deep experience in software engineering, QA, and product management. The idea emerged from firsthand frustration with the inefficiencies and bottlenecks of traditional QA processes, especially in agile and continuous delivery environments.
The company started as a crowdsourced testing platform, where a global community of QA specialists executed test cases written in plain English. This early model proved that non-technical product contributors could effectively own QA, and that testing could be fast, affordable, and integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Over time, Rainforest evolved from a manual crowd-testing service into an AI-powered, no-code test automation platform, reflecting a broader shift toward developer-friendly, maintainable QA solutions. As a Y Combinator alum with over $50 million in funding from top-tier investors, Rainforest has grown into a fully remote, globally distributed team with a strong focus on rethinking how QA is done.
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Rainforest QA sits at the intersection of several powerful trends in software development: the rise of SaaS, the shift to continuous delivery, and the growing demand for developer productivity tools that reduce toil. As more companies adopt CI/CD and release multiple times per day, traditional QA processes have become a bottleneck—manual testing is too slow, and code-based automation is too brittle and expensive to maintain.
Rainforest is riding the wave of “QA democratization,” where quality is no longer the sole responsibility of a specialized QA team but a shared concern across product and engineering. Its no-code, AI-assisted approach aligns with the broader movement toward low-code/no-code tools that empower non-developers while still delivering enterprise-grade reliability.
By making test automation accessible, maintainable, and fast, Rainforest is helping reshape how teams think about quality. It’s particularly well-positioned in the SaaS ecosystem, where speed, quality, and confidence in releases are critical competitive advantages. As AI continues to mature in software testing, Rainforest is poised to influence how the industry balances automation, human judgment, and developer experience.
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Rainforest QA is well-positioned to become the default QA layer for modern SaaS companies that want to move fast without breaking things. As AI testing capabilities advance, the company’s focus on reducing maintenance, improving coverage, and enabling cross-functional ownership will only become more valuable.
Looking ahead, Rainforest is likely to deepen its AI capabilities—expanding from test creation and self-healing to predictive quality insights, risk-based testing, and tighter integration with observability and incident management tools. It may also expand beyond SaaS into other software-driven industries where rapid, reliable releases are critical.
The broader trend toward “quality as code” and “shift-left” QA will continue to favor platforms like Rainforest that make quality measurable, automated, and collaborative. If the company can maintain its product-led growth motion and continue to innovate at the intersection of AI and QA, it has the potential to redefine what a QA platform can be—not just a testing tool, but a core enabler of engineering velocity and product quality at scale.
Rainforest QA has raised $41.2M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $25.0M Series B in January 2018.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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| Jan 1, 2018 | $25.0M Series B | Audrey Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bonfire Ventures, Chemistry VC, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Foundry Group, NextGen Venture Partners, Techstars, Uncork Capital, Clark Landry, Kim Perell, Mark Solon | |
| Feb 1, 2016 | $12.0M Series A | Audrey Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bonfire Ventures, Chemistry VC, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Foundry Group, NextGen Venture Partners, Techstars, Uncork Capital, Clark Landry, Kim Perell, Mark Solon | |
| Feb 1, 2015 | $4.0M Seed | Amasia, Amity Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, Expon Capital, Flex Capital, Founder Collective, Lead Edge Capital, Lightbank, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Scrum Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Transpose platform, Anthony Saleh, Clark Landry, David Marcus, Karl Jacob, Kim Perell | |
| Nov 1, 2013 | $170K Seed | LearnLaunch Accelerator |
