Acquisition
Jan 2026Postman acquired Fern, a developer-experience company for API documentation and production SDK generation. Deal terms were undisclosed; Fern's team, product, brand, and roadmap were retained.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Postman is a privately held API platform company that helps developers and enterprises design, build, test, document, manage, govern, and distribute APIs and services. It reports more than 40 million developers/users and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500.
Primary product
Postman API Platform, including API design, testing, mocking, documentation, monitoring, collaboration, governance, API Catalog, Private API Network, and AI-native development/Agent Mode.
Founded
2014
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
800–1,000
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software development
Sub-industry
API development, API lifecycle management, developer tools, and enterprise software
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
Bangalore/Bengaluru, India
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
New York City, New York, United States
Tokyo, Japan
Business model
Freemium individual product
Per-user SaaS subscriptions for teams
Enterprise subscriptions with governance, security, support, and usage-based add-ons
Usage-based AI and Flows credits
Enterprise sales/contact-sales model
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder
Work & culture
Postman describes a curious, transparent, trust-oriented, collaborative and solutions-focused culture. Its stated values include creating with curiosity, earning trust, embracing constraints, winning together, and owning and delivering. It describes itself as a global, hybrid, diversity-focused workplace.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public careers materials describe benefits but do not provide a reliable company-wide compensation range. Public job postings and third-party compensation data should be treated as role- and geography-specific; no consolidated supported figure is included here.
Benefits
Unlimited PTO for full-time employees
Health coverage with up to 100% premium coverage or local allowance, subject to location
Healthy-meals stipend
Wellness and fitness reimbursement
Unlimited Udemy courses and book allowance
Company off-sites
Charitable giving and volunteer-hour matching
Product & market
Pricing
Free and paid per-user monthly plans for Solo, Team, and Enterprise, with annual-billing discounts; Enterprise is sales-led. Some AI, Flows, and security capabilities use usage-based pricing or add-ons.
Differentiators
- —Large developer and organization network effect
- —Broad lifecycle coverage from design and testing through documentation, distribution, governance, and monitoring
- —Collaborative workspaces and Private API Network
- —API Catalog as an enterprise system of record
- —AI-native Agent Mode and AI Engineer capabilities
- —Git-native workflows and support for HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, MCP, MQTT, WebSockets, and AI APIs
- —Large public API ecosystem and Fortune 500 penetration
Technology
AWS
Kubernetes
ArgoCD
Terraform
Helm
Crossplane
Docker
Node.js
Fastify
Redis/ElastiCache
PostgreSQL
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Python
Java
GraphQL
gRPC
WebSockets
MCP
Customers
PayPal
Siemens
WhatsApp
Salesforce
Stripe
Kroger
Cisco
Microsoft
98% of Fortune 500 companies
500,000 organizations globally
Competitors
Kong
Apigee
MuleSoft
SmartBear
Tricentis
Swagger/OpenAPI tooling
ReadMe
Redocly
Stoplight
Hoppscotch
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $120M–$150M ARR according to 2024 reported market intelligence; other third-party estimates range up to roughly $500M and conflict materially, so revenue is not publicly verified.
Estimated monthly visits
2.7M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Apr 2024Crunchbase reports Postman's acquisition of Orbit, an engagement/community platform; transaction terms were not identified in the retrieved evidence.
SourceAcquisition
Jul 2023Crunchbase reports Postman's acquisition of Akita Software; transaction terms were not identified in the retrieved evidence.
SourceOther
Aug 2024Economic Times reported secondary transactions at an estimated 30–40% discount to Postman's $5.6 billion peak valuation and cited estimated ARR of $120–150 million. This was reported market intelligence, not a company filing.
SourceLatest news
Business Wire · Mar 2026
Postman announced AI-native, Git-based API workflows and API Catalog, positioning the platform as a system of record for APIs and services.
Postman Engineering/Company Blog · Jan 2026
Postman acquired Fern to extend API documentation and production SDK generation; the Fern team joined Postman and the product remained independent.
Business Wire · Jan 2026
The announcement described Fern's 200-plus customers and its documentation and SDK-generation products.
Business Wire · Jul 2025
Postman announced a new San Francisco headquarters, reported 828 employees, $433 million raised, a $5.6 billion valuation, and hybrid hiring across several offices.
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