We believe every team deserves world-class testing
Primates was founded with a simple mission: eliminate the testing bottleneck that slows down engineering teams and let developers focus on building great software. We use artificial intelligence and intelligent orchestration to make comprehensive testing accessible to teams of every size.
Our story
From a frustrating release week to a platform trusted by thousands of engineering teams worldwide.
The Beginning
Founded in San Francisco by two engineers who spent 60% of every sprint on manual regression testing. They knew there had to be a better way.
First Product Launch
Released the first version of Primates with AI-powered test generation. Onboarded 50 beta customers and processed over 100,000 test runs in the first quarter.
Series A ($18M)
Raised Series A funding led by Benchmark Capital. Grew the team to 45 employees and expanded to support 12 programming languages and frameworks.
Enterprise Launch
Launched the Enterprise tier with SOC 2 certification, dedicated infrastructure, and compliance testing templates. Crossed 1,000 paying customers.
Series B ($52M)
Raised Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. Opened offices in New York and London. Surpassed 10 million test runs per month across the platform.
Industry Leader
Named a Leader in Forrester Wave for Continuous Testing Platforms. Reached 2,400+ companies and expanded to serve healthcare, fintech, and e-commerce verticals.
Meet our leadership team
Experienced builders and operators from the world's leading technology companies.
Alex Rivera
Co-Founder & CEO
Former VP of Engineering at Stripe. 15 years building developer tools and infrastructure platforms.
Priya Kapoor
Co-Founder & CTO
Former Staff Engineer at Google. Led the Chrome DevTools team and authored multiple testing frameworks.
James Okonkwo
VP of Engineering
Former engineering lead at Datadog. Expert in distributed systems and real-time data processing at scale.
Sarah Lindberg
VP of Product
Former Product Director at Atlassian. Passionate about developer experience and product-led growth strategies.
Michael Chang
VP of Sales
Former Enterprise Sales Director at HashiCorp. Built sales organizations from $5M to $80M ARR.
Emily Tran
Head of Customer Success
Former Customer Success lead at Vercel. Expert in onboarding, retention, and expansion for developer tools.
Our values
The principles that guide every decision we make.
Ship with Urgency
We move fast without cutting corners. Speed and quality are not opposites -- they are both requirements.
Customers First
Every feature, every fix, every decision starts with the question: how does this help our customers ship better software?
Earn Trust
We handle our customers' most sensitive assets -- their code. We protect it fiercely and communicate transparently.
Stay Curious
Testing is a hard, evolving problem. We invest deeply in research, experimentation, and learning from every failure.
Our offices
With offices across three continents and a remote-friendly culture, we work where our customers are.
San Francisco
HQUnited States
450 Mission Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94105
New York
EngineeringUnited States
110 East 25th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010
London
EMEAUnited Kingdom
1 Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate, London EC2M 2PF